I knew it...9 out of 10 of us are meth head criminals!

"Ninety percent of people involved in scrapping use methamphetamine, Nelson estimates, and they often have warrants out for their arrest."

Thats according to this article:
Copper prices, meth linked to recent uptick in scrapping thefts - Post Bulletin

Pretty broad and sweeping statement, more than likely made by an ignorant imbecile that has never scrapped anything in his life!

wow...if 9 out of 10 of us are meth heads...you other 9 need to get some help.

He said that that house has been hit many times in the past, The police should be doing a better job of watching out for those thieves then.

Bear...my sentiments exactly! If 90% of the scrappers there are meth addicts it seems to me that they have a whole hell of a lot more problems then scrap theft. Maybe if detective Nelson was half as concerned with their drug problem as he is with scrap theft then he could get the offenders off the street.

I read somewhere that Abraham Lincoln once said that 90% of the statistics you read on the internet are made up.

this reminds of a time in brentwood, outside of nashville, while these two officers were writing up tickets for jogging side by side, instead of single file, and another for mooning them, another visitor to the park was having his stereo stolen out of his car, less than 100 feet away.

That story really pissed me off. It is stupidity from people like the officers that make blind statements such as that who give all us recyclers/scrappers a bad name. I myself have NEVER used meth or any other drug for that matter. Only what the docter gives me a script for. So I have tweeted an posted on facebook saying as much. It is plain predjudice to make such a remark as that. I am going to find an email address an explain how I feel about it. Maybe too much but it pisses me off. We make a great living recycling and all my stuff is bought and paid for. The honest way. Without dope of any kind. Yes stealing is wrong and noone should do it. Drugs are terrible and again NO ONE should use them. However there is no way 90% of us are on meth. Only buzz I catch is when I find a dumpster full of scrap even bigger buzz when its a dumpster full of towers or servers lol.

Originally Posted by BohemianLush

Bear...my sentiments exactly! If 90% of the scrappers there are meth addicts it seems to me that they have a whole hell of a lot more problems then scrap theft. Maybe if detective Nelson was half as concerned with their drug problem as he is with scrap theft then he could get the offenders off the street.

I read somewhere that Abraham Lincoln once said that 90% of the statistics you read on the internet are made up.

Lincoln had net??? lol I know what you mean and yes I have read that too

What got me was the owner of Watson Recycling saying that the increase in scrapping is really an increase in the number of people on drugs. Not that I live in MN, but if I did, I certainly wouldn't be visiting that yard - it's full of tweakers.

Originally Posted by olddude

by those standards, 9 out of 10 journalists arw coke/crack junkeys.

cops are too busy writing tickets for no seat belts to wory about minor things like crime.

Ahh - you're being generous with those numbers. I think it's higher than that

I can see that, but what about the other half who makes a living or dose to make some extra cash