Thread: Copper Thefts Costing Churches Tens of Millions in Losses

Christian Security Network warns of increased thefts and suggests ways churches may reduce their losses

Copper Thefts Costing Churches Tens of Millions in Losses

- Christian Newswire
Monday, July 11, 2011

MANASSAS, Va., The theft of copper has hit epidemic proportions in this country and the U.S. Department of Energy estimates losses of over $1 billion a year.

Christian Security Network, http://www.christiansecuritynetwork.org/ an organization with a mission to assist churches and ministries to become safer and better secured is warning churches that the number of incidents is increasing and gives advice on their website to reduce risks and ensure monetary losses are limited.

Criminals have stolen from churches items such as downspouts, gutters, bells, pieces of cemetery markers, and crosses - basically anything made of copper. Construction sites of churches have been hit with plumbing and wires being stolen. And air conditioning units are being taken at an alarming rate, in some areas dozens of thefts a week in almost every area of the country.

“Unfortunately a.c. units are the main targets and we have seen everything from small window models to large units weighing as much as five tons stolen from churches,â€

If you are one of the churches that welcomed Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Immigrants are indeed the ones stealing your Air conditioning units / copper wire as they have been caught doing so all over the country

...well

all I can say is buy more copper wire and a new airconditioning unit so you can repete the process as you turn the other cheek

Wash, Rinse and Repeat the process

you get what you pay for and in some cases you deserve what you got

If you are one of the churches that welcomed Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Immigrants are indeed the ones stealing your Air conditioning units / copper wire as they have been caught doing so all over the country ...well
all I can say is buy more copper wire and a new air conditioning unit so you can repeat the process as you turn the other cheek Wash, Rinse and Repeat the process you get what you pay for and in some cases you deserve what you got


WELL SAID....THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!

‘Gutter Grabbers’ Target Main Line Homes For Copper

July 11, 2011 11:30 PM
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PENN VALLEY, Pa. (CBS) – A rash of copper thefts in Montgomery county has residents on alert.

They may not seem like your typical targets, but thieves in Montgomery County are looking for copper. Gutters and downspouts made of the precious metal are being stolen from people’s homes along the Main Line.

Lower Merion Township Police have reported a significant increase in the thefts of copper downspouts and gutters being taken from homes throughout the area.

“I thought, ‘I’m so far from the road nobody’s going to come in here’,â€