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Hey Lostashell, that's pretty sneak - stealing breakers and then pretending you just happen to have some in your truck that will work...

Hey!, Ya gotta make a living don't ya?

If I took em, I would've had enough to replace 'em without driving to a 24hour Home Depot!

-Randy

I agree... this is a first, especially individual breakers from an occupied home. It's not like there were boxes of 'em left out of the gang box one night and it was a "target of opportunity"

I also agree that this thief musta known a thing or two about electricity. Who else would even bother stealing breakers and manage not to get them self electrocuted. If this guy accidentally touched one of those hot bus bars, the HO might have come home and found him lying on the floor with a pile of breakers at his side.

At first I was thinking the thief was going to steal the main, & thats why the poco sections are all opened.. & then maybe he got cold feet.. I'd agree that this was either an electrician or someone who's worked around alot of electricians... Most construction workers I've come across know how to yank a resi breaker out without getting lit up!

Pierre wrote:

Unfortunately....
Stolen Pushmatic

-Randy

This is almost related, but I once worked at a drugstore in a rough part of town, where, during our less-busy hours of operation, someone stole the urinal out of the men's bathroom! We even had security camera footage of this guy walking out the door with the unit. I am still surprised nobody noticed him lugging this out of the building. Some people are just plain strange.

Was he taking the p?

Alan

Gee...whatever happened to the days when theives would break into a house and steal the VCR, the color TV, the radio or hi-fi, money, jewelry and any other small stuff they could pick up and carry out.

I'm trying to picture some guy dressed in black, wearing a ski-cap & burnt cork on his face; with a screwdriver....digging into a panel, trying to unhook the breakers. Why didn't he go for the METER while he was at it????

Boss; "Fingers, pay attention you idiot!! Tonite, you go to Toomey's Breakers Yard, you'll find the stuff I want in a sack behind the panel by a post near the street door. Deliver it to me as fast as possible, got that?"

Fingers; "Duh, yes Boss!"

That night at 2 Mease Street, Fingers prises open the panel by the yard door, stuffs the breakers in a sack, and posts them to the Boss next-day delivery.

Heck, we installed a 200A panel once, with the outside gfi recept nearby, for a new house we were getting ready to rough. Came back a few days later to start that rough, and guess what? Not only did someone take that panel, they even took the bellbox we had for getting temp power, and the GFI as well!