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While I don't think it's what the reporter meant either, at least one bridge has been stolen before. http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/11280/1180364-455.stm#ixzz1
by Ogre 14y ago
While I don't think it's what the reporter meant either, at least one bridge has been stolen before. http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/11280/1180364-455.stm#ixzz1a9neYAw0 http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/11280/1180364-455.stm#ixzz1a9...
I can't find the weight of that bridge directly, nor how they arrived at the value estimate, but if I'm reading it correctly, this (http://www.steelonthenet.com/commodity_prices.html http://www.steelonthenet.com/commodity_prices.html) seems to say steel scrap was going for $428/ton in October 2011, so from the "estimated $100000" we can guess that it was about 234 tons of steel.
- nopassrecover 14y agoIt actually sounds relatively low risk ("What are you doing!? Moving the bridge like this here paperwork says. We never approved that! Oh must have been a mixup..")
- ars 14y agoThe value is probably for a constructed bridge (i.e. includes labor), not scrap.
- Ogre 14y agoYou're probably right: http://www.wfmj.com/story/15644204/theives-make-off-with-entire-bridge-in-new-castle http://www.wfmj.com/story/15644204/theives-make-off-with-ent... seems to be the real source of the $100,000 number, an engineer estimating the likely replacement cost, not the value of the scrap. Also this, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050015/Brothers-charged-stealing-steel-bridge-haunted-prom-queen.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050015/Brothers-cha... > Two brothers have been charged with stealing a 'haunted' western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15.5 tons of scrap metal for £3,160. (I assume being in Pennsylvania they actually got dollars for it)
- kijin 14y agoBritish newspapers tend to convert everything to pounds without citing the original figure. I find it really annoying since I can never remember the going exchange rate for GBP.
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