Top photo from 6th Street
Catalytic converters remain a hot property. (Background)
Meanhile, the 9th Precinct tweeted this back on Saturday morning...
There is a big market for catalytic converters and these thieves know that. Great Police work by Officer Ramos and Officer Foster. They responded to a 911 call of a man stealing a catalytic converter from a car and after a brief foot chase the individual was arrested. pic.twitter.com/o8IH7zYQqT
— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) August 20, 2022
Great work - more late night / early morning patrols
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this was the same BMW that crashed into a car and killed the driver yesterday across from Yankee Stadium? https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-dies-in-wild-early-morning-hit-and-run-crash-outside-yankee-stadium/3839304/
ReplyDeleteThat came to my mind too, but those criminals have turned themselves in today.
DeleteThey are working to make it a federal crime. Each catalytic converter contains 900 dollars worth of platinum (but you gotta use toxic dangerous acids to remove)
ReplyDeleteAnd Bragg will let the perp go free
ReplyDeleteHappens in much of the country. Know they have been stealing these in LA too. You can place an alarm on the underside of your vehicle to deter the theft.
ReplyDeleteYou could probably make some fun recycled art out of these!
ReplyDeleteApparently stealing in NYC is no longer considered a crime.
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ReplyDeleteFunny you say that because at that very same spot on Ave B (if memory serves) in the 1980s was a collective of sculptors who fabricated installations, sculptures, and furniture from junk and scrap metal they they found on the LES. Linus Coraggio was the most well known of that crew.
@ 7:37,
ReplyDeleteGas Station! I remember that. Now, a very nondescript apartment complex stands in it's place.
I was awakened at the wee hours one morning to what I thought were the sounds of a sawz-al cutting up a catalytic converter from a car next door. There was a black car double parked next to it and some dude standing watch while the other was under the subject car. I called the cops but the guys were gone in a flash.
Reminds me of the professional car stripper gangs of the 70's and 80's who could strip a car and leave it on milk crates in 15 minutes.
Linus Coraggio here,I find it funny nd endearing to have my old studio of 9 years(the '' the gas station'' aka ''space 2B'') mentioned in conjunction with a EV Greive piece about stolen catalytic converters.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I need to weld a sculpture using one.