I’m sure there are unscrupulous scrap yards out there but i’ve also heard most of these catalytic thefts get sold to gangs and end up in shipping containers bound for asia where they are sold and the local scrap yard never sees them.
these thieves are from California, its where it all started. If Californians move into your States, towns, cities, counties. you better watch out on them, especially the low class ones.
@@gheerock4077 The Mexican drug cartels from Tamaulipas from long time ago are in the business of precious metals like gold, platinum and others like the ones that are in the catalytic converters, they use this metals to do money laundering, I bet they’re are being this dirty business, or maybe a small gang that sells this metals to the drug cartels to do money laundering.
Didn't stop horses getting stolen. Prohibition didn't stop booze being sold. And then if they lost their hands, as well as spending time in prison on my taxes, they'd then be on benefits for the rest of their lives. If only there was a way to stop them that also doesn't cost more than a few cents....
I can't buy a used catalytic converter from a scrap dealer. It is against Federal law. So why is it legal for a scrap dealer buy 14 of them at a time from some toothless tweeker?
@@rvw3022 Yes, I know why people steal them. But they'd be stolen less if it were illegal for scrap dealers to buy them just like it is illegal for car owners to buy them.
I thought it was a federal offense to alter a vehicles emission equipment? So start handing the thieves over to the epa, and send them to federal prison!
@@A_Bit_of_Thought they don’t do shit for the environment but put fines and complain of shit they don’t know. At most they do a quick google search and use what fits their agenda.
Simple fix. NO one gets paid for 30 days at the scrap yard. State ID and home address of the seller on file. The metal dealer pays huge fines if they don't.
And vehicle manufacturers put the VIN number on every popular stolen part. Here in the UK scrap yards ask for photo ID and a valid bank account to pay the funds into.
I was gonna say the same thing how come someone is selling dozens of converters the buyer knows everything and should be held guilty instead of those bullshit solutions park in garage ..how about hiring a security guard
In Washington Missouri, we took 2 catalytic converters to scrap, they copied our license, took pictures of them, and we had to wait for about 30 minutes before we got paid, I’m guessing they did a check on them, but I think this would stop a lot of stealing if more scrap yards would do that
In my state you cannot scrap anything if you have a criminal record (felonious) and they only give 25 in cash, to get the rest you have to have an account and show a ton of I’d and whatnot. It doesn’t stop ANYONE from selling stolen scrap though.
Make it a mandatory death sentence. We need to make most crime in this country punishable by death with the sentence to be carried out immediately upon arrest.
@Rob ... Agreed. Vehicle owners may shoot dead the perpetrators if caught in the act. Police are strictly prohibited from making arrests, and no prosecution under any circumstances. This ends tonight.
It's already in place, it's called the Second Amendment. You have all let your Liberty go for a handout from government. They are already in dereliction of duty to the "People", so why would you look to them to solve your own personal responsibilities? A man can only possess that which he can maintain possession of.
@@mangos2888 It's not property damage. It's theft. You know why horse rustlers were so rare in the old west? They were hanged. And stand your ground laws/castle doctrine recognizes the act for what it is. It's invasion and plunder. It's not murder. It's combat.
And the lawmakers and judges who allow this to happen, and happen, and happen with little consequences are as equally to blame as the thieves. Same with the scrapyard guys who know the converter is stolen but buys it anyway. Absolutely disgusting that we put up with it ...
LOL why am I not surprised. Only Las Vegas. I know what you should do research Lake Mead water shortage once you see how low the lake is and how much little time you have you will then decide let me get the heck outta here. Problem solved 👍👍👍👍
Chief Running Turtle: How would the scrapyard owner feel if they stole his catalytic converter from his car because of his policy of buying stolen cataiytic converters.
I been using wal mart jack stands ever since started working on cars when I was 15 I’m 23 now and still use wal mart jack stands and never had a issue with them I literally went full bolt on on my old 96 civic and was under car for literally 30 mins luckily they work great I don’t trust wal mart jack stands with my life but I still use em
It's part of a larger problem, that our government and criminal justice system are absolutely indifferent to the hardship of hardworking honest citizens. In 1991 I had my ten year old, rusted Honda Civic stolen off the street in Queens, NYC. When the cop came to take a report an hour later he said that an old car like that is worth much more for parts and it was probably already in 2000 different parts by now. I researched car theft in NYC and found that in the preceding year there about 15,000 car thefts in NYC. Of these about 1200 of the thieves were caught. Of the 1200 that were caught about 160 went to trial and of these only 64 served jail time. I'm a dentist and at the time was struggling to save every penny to get out of that sh*thole of a city and didn't bother buying a car to replace it. So it struck me that stealing cars is literally safer legally than being a dentist in NYC. Really pathetic.
Years back I was told by my insurance company that my Brooklyn zip is one of the worst for damage and car theft. They said they have insure the entire state but would certain exclude some areas if they could. I unfortunately knew people in NY that made a very good living off "petty" crimes like that. Really sad.
It is always the same reaction to any crime. Make the victim take steps , expense to protect their investment, never go after the criminals, make them pay the price, in the form of higher fines and jail time.
Don't worry even if they are handed the criminal on a silver platter with video and admission of guilt the liberal judicial activist prosecutor will still let them go. People know they have nothing to worry about anymore. Except of course me dropping my car on their skull when they are under it. If I see anyone under my car I'm kicking the opposite side tire as hard as I can and laughing while the jack goes flying.
Here in Maryland, I took two old deep cycling batteries to the recyclers. Had to give them my license, and they took my picture before the transaction. They said this was the law to prevent illegal scraping. Simple cure for Catalytic Converters, Batteries AC Coil and Copper Thieves. Should be done Nationwide.
almost impossible to justify having a cat all fed laws ignored how many people change them them selves there are hundreds shown on local face book all sawed off shops unbolt them
Come down hard on scrapyard owners, make them prove that each converter came from a licensed shop, if not charge them with a crime. If the scumbags can't sell the converters they'll stop stealing them.
There was a major cat theif operation busted in my town a while back (Prescott Valley, AZ). In the raid they found something like 20,000 cats. These guys were gathering from all over and then loading them on a semi and taking it to Mexico to avoid the law.
@@delegate104 Not high temp paint baked on by the hot converter. I don't know what brake cleaner you are using but I doubt it comes off that easy. Just for kicks I'm going to do this to my beater truck just to prove myself right
Wouldn't work in urban areas. Crime and politics go hand in hand. City county and state politicians have a quid pro quo arrangement. Even if a thug does get arrested, they're out and the DA doesn't file charges.
When i stayed in Kiev , Ukraine long ago the city mafia collected tribute from the business owners but they did their job for it, the city streets were safe at night, if a business or it's customer was robbed or attacked, mafia justice was swift, no courtroom just the perp was beat bad or more. The crooks would rather had the police pick them up
@@safffff1000 Unfortunately, Russia wants to raid Ukraine to destroy this functioning democracy and self determinance. They can't have functioning democracy right next door. Why do stupid Trumpsters traitors support Putin's Russia?!?!
Damn I can only imagine what the AT&T girl was going through if this bodacious woman is getting checked out and gawked at but yea she is a good cuddle buddy!
Making it go underground will only make it even more expensive. You can't stop cash transaction. They only way is to do undercover sting operations to catch the sellers and buyers of obvious stolen converters.
I think that if car manufacturers can make you remove your front wheel in order to change the car battery, they certainly can think of something to make it harder to remove the cc.
i don't see how painting your converter will deter theft. two things will make this stop. eliminate converters and make it legal to shoot anyone attempting to steal one off your car.
Friend was getting his fender skirts on his car stolen he taped razor blades on the reliese handle twice he would find blood on his car when they would try to steal them ,.
Completely covering the catalytic converter area with a steel plate like was shown, even with a few holes like it had, is very dangerous. Cats run at a very high temperature and trapping that heat in could lead to a very bad time.
There are other cage designs out there that have been around for a few decades. Some involve a daisy chain method that wraps around the converter and permanently locks into place by special anti-tampering bolts. Most theives won't bother touching it because it takes too long to steal it.
I have customers rolling in with mud baked on, 1 to 2 inches of mud cooked on. the mud acts like an insulator keeps the cat warm in the winter and the summer time it keep me from getting burned.
Why not implement a chainmail wrap? And if you have one, weld it onto your exhaust pipe before and after the cat. Or you can use the chainmail as a way to make that mesh so the cat can breathe. Most of the time these guys have that special metal pipe cutting tool on Amazon, the chain thing wraps around the pipe, three twists and it's off. So about 1 minute is all it takes to snatch a cat. You could also weld a cage around the cat, kind of like a milk carton. Use angle iron, weld a U box, connect the four bottom pieces and make a cross section. Make the ends of the U smaller than the cats diameter so if they manage to cut it, they can't take it out. I'm going to start suggesting this to all the truck owners I know... Lol.
Engraving does NOT stop them. I had mine engraved and a week later it was gone. $2,000 later had to replace muffler and catalytic converter. My sister and neighbor had the same experience, got it engraved and week later it was gone. Oddly enough, we all got it engraved at the exact same toyota dealer that the police had put out a flyer for free engraving. Coincidence, no, I think it was an inside job at that toyota dealership. Someone working there or someone there passing on information about the vehicle and location to outside. Did any of us ever hear from police? Nope, never, not a word. Besides with the current criminal laws, they would just be given a ticket for a misdemeanor and let go to go steal more.
@@esaedvik we do have free education and Healthcare. Public Education and Obamacare. Rate of Cat theft still increases. Socialism is not the answer as there's still theft in Venezuela
@@esaedvik Why not free everything, I mean heck free food, free pu$$y, free cars and houses... oh wait, someone has to pay for that thru hard work and taxes. I'm not interested in paying higher taxes so a junkie can get their fix, they can get a job like the rest of us and earn their way thru life. I live in the Bronx, I've had 5 attempted vehicle break ins over the last year and had my catalytic converter stolen off my van. The last guy had a better car than I did.
The businesses buying these stolen converters are as guilty as the thieves. If they refused to buy them, there would be no demand, and theft would stop. Only MASSIVE fines AND JAILTIME will "encourage" these CRIMINAL businesses to NOT willingly and KNOWINGLY receive stolen property! IMO
How does the $6 come into play? 2000 degree spray paint is 3 to 4 times that! Edit 12/14/21 : I may have to change my tone here, I bought the $18 2000 degree paint and found out that most of the outer part of the Cat is a shield that does not get near 1600 degrees, and that 500-degree paint might be fine! Also when I painted mine I got a sheet of 3/4" vinyl letters and numbers from Dollar Tree and used them to put my Vin # on the Cat before painting, after the paint dried I peeled them off and went over them with my etcher. The number is very prominent! I also got 15' of 5/16" steel cable and wove it around and threw holes in the frame and Cat shield loosely, hiding the cable clamps above the Cat. Anyone who has cut a steel cable with a hacksaw will know how difficult this will be for a thief under your car.
@@JosephHelmstetter I think the reporter didn't do their homework, 500-degree high heat paint can cost only $6 but the cat runs at 1400 to 1600 degrees I think so now you have to buy 2000- degree paint for $20, still worth it to help keep thieves away. They got my wife's cat in a mall parking lot it cost us over $300 to replace with the cheapest one.
@@eddienino8488 mine are hard they're tucked in the engine bay = impossible to take but i got full coverage just incase since it's 2,000 to replace both of them and only 100$ more every 6 mo
You fell for that scam called "insurance". Insurance companies will not replace them with oem parts. Also they'll simply raise your rates so you're actually paying them twice regardless.
I had the same thinking when I cut mine off my first truck..got the catalytic down to the scrap yard and...they told me it was worthless. The honey comb had blown out into my muffler I guess..so that explained the noise in my muffler lol. Obviously cut that off too and had a shop weld the hollow cat and a flow master back in, sounds great!. Not to loud not to quiet👌 my plan for the catalytic scrap $ to cover the cost "backfired" on me lol ended up costing me 160$..lesson learned..dont count your money before ya got it👍
Mechanic that was a family friend of mine loved trolling thieves, he had a junk pickup that he kept installing "fake" cats on, they got stolen like 6 or 7 times, he had taken scrap cats, hollowed them out and filled with em rocks and other worthless materials xD
@@zalmaflash If the buyer is willing to accept several cats with cut off ends they already know what's going on. A little grind mark won't change anything.
Beware, that the casing might cause the catalytic converter to overheat and get damaged or cause the vehicle to catch fire. I live in Bavaria Germany and I‘m very happy to have a strong police fighting those criminals. Sometimes it is perfect to live in a neighborhood, where people care and such thief’s have no margin that would encourage them to risk getting jailed.
Good for you... Here things are backwards.. these losers have more rights than the victims thanks to the progressive, communist, liberal globalist derailed dems, haters of America. Sad. Pray for America.
not sure about germany, but in america and also here in australia they are going to any area to commit crimes now. they will get into gated communities with 24/7 on site security and steal all the cats before anyone realizes like it's oceans 11.
Same with me two months ago. Cost me $320. Crazy thing is, it's happened to others there, and the company owner knows it. His tax records show he makes $14 million a year, and he doesn't provide us a safe place to park.
Shit man I’m here watching videos like these cuz it happened to me today at my works parking place, informes the security and they said they can’t do anything about it smh 🤬
Having been hit twice over the years, nothing short of summary execution will stop converter thieves. The first time my converter was stolen, my truck was at work. Thieves stole converters off every Toyota truck on the parking lot. Surveillance cameras allegedly must have been made by Sgt Schultz, as they saw nothing, nothing at all. The second time my new truck was at the dealership for a recall campaign. Instead of parking the truck inside their gated storage lot, it was left outside. Thieves hit close to 15 trucks, stealing all four converters off the V8 powered trucks. Cost of factory new converters and pipes, $4500 per truck.
Execution? That's a lie. There are many other ways. If you support execution for that then that means that you are against the Constitution, you are against our constitutional rights.
No way. Takes only less than a few minutes or less if you watch the videos. They get an item that they can see for $150-$200 in a few minutes. No job out there that they bums will get ever come close to making that amount of money in that amount of time.
You would be mistaken, catalytic converters are worth a lot of money, prius cats are worth over a grand, ive seen a video where thieves stole one in under a minute, pretty messed up but I am curious what Sawzall blades they use because that was impressive
@@lumpyzx2645 I work on metal ducting, etc, Milwaukee tools makes some good blades. $30 for a fuggin 5 pack but man, they will eat pipe like nothing. Fence posts, etc. Kinda funny saying that aloud..... hey Milwaukee what are you up to? Plus all those neat shaped battery powered saws..... lol
@@MrLandslide84 I can't remember what blade I used that cut exhaust like butter, it was either Milwaukee, Lenox, or Diablo, but I haven't cut much exhaust, all I know is shocks and leaf springs take the life right out of em, which doesn't surprise me with the chrome plated hardened steel rod inside the shock, but leafs are too hard to cut
The cat was cut out from my friend's Prius a few months ago. He bought cheap aftermarket and installed it just so the car wouldn't throw any error codes and make it quiet. A couple of weeks ago the same thing happened again. Twice in 3 months. The same car.
The newer cats bring in less money a lot less if an experienced thief sees an aftermarket they usually won’t touch those you might get 8.00 for one, I used to do Cash For Junk Cars several years ago and I was stunned on how little they bring, I stopped cutting them off, it wasn’t worth it and the junkyards were always happy to see them still on
The legit scrap yards are "required" to vet sellers of scrap with identification. If a scrap yard receives large amounts of catalytic converters that have clearly been sawed off they should report it and supply the police with the recorded finger prints, photos and identifications of the seller. So why is this still going on? The scrap yards are either in on it, the sellers have a connection to bypass the city ordinances or they are going out of city ordinance jurisdiction to sell to smaller "mom & pop" scrap yards that dont care about where the scrap comes from. In the end money talks. Thevies got my catalytic converter about a year ago on a used truck i had bought a couple of years earlier, I came to find out that the one they had cut out and stolen was a replacement installed by the previous owner. When I called the police to file a report, I was advised that it is pretty much a lost cause to hope for justice unless it gains publicity. I guess now is that time.
I caught one trying too steal, lowered the jack ,his friends took off ,left him there for awhile until I had too go too work ,kept the jack, he slowly walked away crying
Need to hit the source , ie: the unscrupulous characters that are buying them no Questions asked . If they didn’t buy them the thieves wouldn’t steal them .
That's like saying if people quit buying audio equipment, wheels, or anything else people want that people would quit stealing it because they couldn't sell it, it's not the buyers fault, it's criminals and thieves being lousy people, you don't seem to understand what is inside of catalytic converters, what those precious metals are worth, and that they can be recycled. If you want to blame somebody for catalytic converters being stolen, blame the EPA for requiring them in the first place
@@lumpyzx2645 Sorry I disagree, I know they’re worth money. If your a scrap merchant and some guy says do you want to buy a ton of catalytic converters from a whole bunch of different cars. You’d have to be a complete idiot to not think for a moment that they’re stolen. Even if someone sells the odd one or two, anyone in a business should require some form of proof that these are genuine. Otherwise they’d be as much as a low life as the person who stole it, It’s Fuelling the whole vicious cycle. Catching one criminal gang today doesn’t stop the thefts . The only way to stop the thrift is by making it harder for thieves to off load them. If there’s nobody willing to buy them then it’s pointless for the thieves to even steal them .
@@mark-1rc502 I have a cat now that came off a 99 Subaru. I owned it, car was scrapped. I'm the owner...but I have no way to prove that. I helped a mechanic for years. I would collect his cats and sell them for him. (I would drive them to the largest cat buyer in the states. (They had the facility there that actually produced new after market converters). I again had no way to prove what cars the cats came from. If the re-manufacturers don't have the used cats to work with, the recycling concept shuts down. If only there were jobs out there for these thieves....
@@Dancing_Alone_wRentals I get that , May be the Vin no. Can be etched on to the CAT And proof of Vehicle Scrapped ?🤷♂️ If the vin ground off don’t accept
@@mark-1rc502 It would be hard. The thieves would buy the etching tool, Harbor Freight would sell a battery powered clone, Carmax would provide them endless vin numbers to fake. A way to do it would be to have a dealer system for cats just like for guns. That level of documentation and scrutiny but I think people on a whole would not want it due to how it would drive up the costs Today, you buy a cat...shell out big bucks, and it bolts on fairly easily. In the future only certified dealers could do the repair for you. Imagine the costs. Probably easier to invent a motion alarm around the cat when the car is parked. (You know...you and I should do this....You can be CEO of this company, I'll be CFO)
In my city, some thieves tried 3 different times to steal some guys catalytic converters from his truck. On the last broad daylight attempt, the owner and his roommate came out with their paintball guns and let them have it. It was caught on their ring video.
See that's one of those cases where the crook could have sued y'all for even shooting him with no lethal weapons. All he had to do was slip and fall when running from you and he'd be getting paid. Supposed to be in direct fear of your life before it is right to utilize a weapon of any kind. 🤷🏻♂️.
This is a serious subject and you are being childish. The thief would get squished like a cockroach...How would you get that mess off your nice car? You risk being late for the drive-in movie because you had to go through the car wash. Think before you write...
As illegal as that is there could possibly be an option to drop the car to the ground when parking (sort of like the old Citroens) . It wouldn't be cheap though.
@@WakeUpAmerican000s that was good. The thief would still be flat as a pancake from his last crime. In the end, thieves will always be elected, sorry. Always be around. It is up to us to try and be proactive. Only education can cure a thief.
@@chistosok5I guess they should be it legal to steal catalytic converters since it making it illegal has absolutely no impact on the frequency they happen, just like with gun violence, right?
I read of a guy that got tired of having his car stereo stolen repeatedly so he got the bright idea of gluing razor blades under his dash. Didn't take long for someone to try to steal his equipment again. Person was seriously cut up by said razor blades and almost died from blood loss. Ended up suing the car owner. Won a judgment in the hundred of thousands against the car owner!
A few years ago here in Maryland we were having the same problem. They made a law the same as she was talking about. You have to document where that converter came from and if the shop takes it in anyhow they could be forced to shut down or pay a huge fine for ignoring the law. Now it's very seldom that cats are getting stolen now. Of course it will never 100% go away but they are making it very hard for people who might not have transportation to go to another state and sell their stolen goods. Any bit helps.
BS! I live in Maryland and both my CC and my brother’s CC were stolen within two months apart! Mine was stolen two weeks ago and my brother’s was stolen two months ago! So much for that Maryland law, eh?
The last time this was going on they went to the buyers and made them have the sellers register their sales and that slowed it down by having to state where you got them and provide legal license for ID.
How about having a sensor that will automatically lower the vehicle to the ground, if the CC is messed with? That would both protect the CC and hang on to the attempted thief at the same time.
In America, which is where we are, the injured thief would hire a good lawyer and take everything you own including the catalytic converter. Actually he might leave you with that just to add insult to injury. (pun intended)
How about part of our alarm system it engages a shocking mechanism onto the converter itself I wire that is connected all the way it goes through your car or something that can actually shock them when they touch metal
Thinking like a Police officer or Politicians. Paint it bright or Edge it. They will drop it in a solution and easily remove the paint and they will buff the edged numbers. It would only work if you catch them red handed. Otherwise it won't work. Also requiring vin numbers etc etc for a legal business just makes it harder and more paper work and hoops they have to do to process a cat for sale.. People on the black market will just bypass those laws or and minor solutions. Best option is buy or have a custom under carriage plate for your car and have them weld a few points. Make sure to leave space for the Oxygen sensor to be removed if need be. This is like restricting legal gun owners while criminals get guns from the black market, which will always be there, because of such laws. Laws don't fix crap, criminals go around them or disobey them. Law just screw the good abiding citizen even more. It's a joke with laws these days.
Many of the buyers don't care if it is stolen, the buyer knows where to send it (into another state if necessary) to turn a buck, like anything else that is stolen.
No, you don't have to always get them welded on. There are rivet on/bolt on (with security heads) kits now for some models that are even easier to install.
I caught one on my cell Camera, I was in my Van, Vanlife, and I hear a Saw going off behind my van, he targeted a Rav4, he made the 1st cut and I started filming him he made the second cut and gets up with it and shoves the Cat in a backpack, gets the saw and goes back away from my van and the Rav4 to his utility truck, got his face and the Truck he took off with. A few hours later the owner of the Rav4 comes to my van, had the slide door open and asks: did you see anyone mess with my car? I said: Yes I got it all on video. He was so happy and very very thankful. I sent the video to him in a text. 2 hours go by and a cop knocks on my van door asking for a testimony, gave him everything he needed and told him: I hope you catch him. What I noticed is that the thieves will target a Vehicle that is higher off the ground like a Truck or SUV because a car is too low and needs jacking up, less likely, too much effort and time for these thieves, in that case Weld a thick plate covering the Cat.
@@susanbezio1529 u think u know about this stuff huh! its possible if u dont wrap "Heat Wrap" roll made withheat resistant material and fiberglass, it controls the actual exhaust pipe and Cat. from getting red hot and causing fires. go look it up, Racers wrap it on the Manifold and Motorcyclists wrap their exhaust pipes too
The busts ive seen on a few news channels, there is a HUGE pile of converters. I think they are being collected in bulk and shipped across the southern boarder hidden among other random scrap metal or put in shipping containers being sold outside of the US. Thats my guess.
I keep telling people that but they won't believe me. The cops caught thieves with over 8000 of them in Kent WA recently and another theft ring in Oregon had trafficked 44,000 of them. Nobody brings that many into a local scrap dealer. In both cases "out of state" buyers were buying them.
Local radio ad “you work hard for your cats, get the most you can for them at XYZ recycling” I’m thinking “well, that’s not shady at all”. The VIN thing is a good idea but it would have to be stamped in, a couple of passes with a grinder would erase markings made with a buzz pencil engraver.
grind off the vin number, doubt anyone cares about paint when they get 500 bux for the interior material. Its not like they are re-using the converters. Silly idea
@@markherring3513 either platinum or rhodium or both, depending on which was cheapest when the factory made the cat, usually a few grams worth, very expensive metals. The metals get melted down and made into new catalytic converters.
@@terrygs28 absolutely. First it was global cooling, then global warming, now its "climate change" its all bogus. Don't get me wrong, I don't like pollution and taking steps toward clean water and air is a good thing. But we aren't all gonna die in 10 years like AOC makes it out to be. I feel bad for all the brainwashed kids learning this garbage.
I think you should arrest the scrapyard owners. If your getting ten to thirty converters a week from the same guy come on its obvious there stolen.
Yes undercover sales to scrap yards
Yep, you know they’re involved in it.
I’m sure there are unscrupulous scrap yards out there but i’ve also heard most of these catalytic thefts get sold to gangs and end up in shipping containers bound for asia where they are sold and the local scrap yard never sees them.
these thieves are from California, its where it all started. If Californians move into your States, towns, cities, counties. you better watch out on them, especially the low class ones.
@@gheerock4077 The Mexican drug cartels from Tamaulipas from long time ago are in the business of precious metals like gold, platinum and others like the ones that are in the catalytic converters, they use this metals to do money laundering, I bet they’re are being this dirty business, or maybe a small gang that sells this metals to the drug cartels to do money laundering.
There was a time when horse thieves were hanged. Maybe it's time we bring that back.
Didn't stop horses getting stolen. Prohibition didn't stop booze being sold. And then if they lost their hands, as well as spending time in prison on my taxes, they'd then be on benefits for the rest of their lives. If only there was a way to stop them that also doesn't cost more than a few cents....
@Chill Will Well, they *used* to... :-)
I second that! Let's start hanging horse thieves again.
@Chill Will not mine. Try about $5 per round,if I can find them in stock anywhere.
@Shubbit the fubbick ubbip!!! Not in CA
I cut my catalytic converter off every night and bring it in the house and then I weld it back on in the morning before I go back to work.
You're Crazier than a Road Lizard if you do.
Journeymen Shipfitter Graduate Apprentice : 20 years - Naval Shipyard Long Beach , CA........Smog Repair Mechanic : Independent Automotive Shops & GM Dealership.
Ha haha! I'm all for it. Any excuse to put the welder to work.
And Thats why Welders are badass high 5.
engraving it wont do shnit. they used a grinder to cut the converter out. they can also use the grinder to grind out the engraving.
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I can't buy a used catalytic converter from a scrap dealer. It is against Federal law. So why is it legal for a scrap dealer buy 14 of them at a time from some toothless tweeker?
They are recycled for their resources, not to be used as a replacement part.
@@alb12345672 I can buy any other used part off of a car...except a cat. What are those used cats recycled into? NEW cats.
@@aaroncostello8812 🐈
@Aaron Costello they have precious metals on them like gold. Collect enough and you have a pretty penny.
@@rvw3022 Yes, I know why people steal them. But they'd be stolen less if it were illegal for scrap dealers to buy them just like it is illegal for car owners to buy them.
The scrap yards are as crooked as the crooks
Oh Chris Kringle bring me a roll of copper for Christmas
@Kalina Phan you dont take the metal out of the converter fool lol its worth more together with the metals inside.
Pawn shops also
@Ramiro Duran yea he's in the spotlight so of course he does
@Kalina Phan lol I've brought both to the scrap yard complete and metals out and there worth more complete so wtf are you talking about lol
I thought it was a federal offense to alter a vehicles emission equipment? So start handing the thieves over to the epa, and send them to federal prison!
The EPA is not interested in catching criminals - It only wants to be a headache to the vehicle owners.
@@A_Bit_of_Thought they don’t do shit for the environment but put fines and complain of shit they don’t know. At most they do a quick google search and use what fits their agenda.
@@TrojanLube69 Agreed - In so many words they, like other government bureaucracies just like to feel important and harrass people.
@@A_Bit_of_Thought yeah the EPA is the car version of the ATF pretty much
not really
Simple fix. NO one gets paid for 30 days at the scrap yard. State ID and home address of the seller on file. The metal dealer pays huge fines if they don't.
To logical, makes too much sense, the beurocrats will never go for it .
And vehicle manufacturers put the VIN number on every popular stolen part. Here in the UK scrap yards ask for photo ID and a valid bank account to pay the funds into.
They already do that bro, problem is most scrap yards are in on it, even telling the thieves which cars cc have the higher value.
We don’t sell the cats to scrap yards lmao way too valuable
No ID for VOTING in thisDEMONdnc chinaJoeThePEDO country, but get an ID for converter???????? what's the F-wrong with this?
They need to crack down on the scrapyards that are accepting these without rigorous scrutiny..they are just as bad as the thieves
Thats right blame businessmen.. dont blame the dumocraps and their criminal voters.
The problem is the buyers of the Cat Converter. They will stop stealing them when they cannot sell them anymore.
This is such a simple solution. Track the buyers, they just as guilty.
I was gonna say the same thing how come someone is selling dozens of converters the buyer knows everything and should be held guilty instead of those bullshit solutions park in garage ..how about hiring a security guard
@@adammoe605 lol maybe we should all get lasers on our cars and have satellite tracking of our converters!
Its china buying all the worlds metals and other resources
@@adammoe605 You're going to invade China to station a security guard there?
In Washington Missouri, we took 2 catalytic converters to scrap, they copied our license, took pictures of them, and we had to wait for about 30 minutes before we got paid, I’m guessing they did a check on them, but I think this would stop a lot of stealing if more scrap yards would do that
In my state you cannot scrap anything if you have a criminal record (felonious) and they only give 25 in cash, to get the rest you have to have an account and show a ton of I’d and whatnot. It doesn’t stop ANYONE from selling stolen scrap though.
How much did you get
@@scootersonlyrepair6773 why are you asking that?
No one cares
Hei
How much do thy cost ?
Give them minimum 5 years in prison if caught stealing one, thief and buyer.
It’s a federal offense to disable a vehicles emission equipment, why don’t they hit them with that charge?
or cut off one of their hands for stealing...
@@carl-cr7rp with the sawzall they were using!
Shoot them on site. That will end it.
Make it a mandatory death sentence. We need to make most crime in this country punishable by death with the sentence to be carried out immediately upon arrest.
We need a Protect your Property by any means necessary law....
I for one am tired of criminals not being held accountable...
@Rob ... Agreed. Vehicle owners may shoot dead the perpetrators if caught in the act. Police are strictly prohibited from making arrests, and no prosecution under any circumstances. This ends tonight.
It's already in place, it's called the Second Amendment.
You have all let your Liberty go for a handout from government.
They are already in dereliction of duty to the "People",
so why would you look to them to solve your own personal responsibilities?
A man can only possess that which he can maintain possession of.
No way. Property damage doesn't justify murder. Ever.
@@mangos2888
Opinions vary.
I don't believe in killing, but some offenses call for it, don't they?
Mess with my kids, and you'll find out.
@@mangos2888 It's not property damage. It's theft. You know why horse rustlers were so rare in the old west? They were hanged.
And stand your ground laws/castle doctrine recognizes the act for what it is. It's invasion and plunder.
It's not murder. It's combat.
To stop thefts make a law harder for them to sell it
These precious metals are being sent to China and Africa. It's a global thing.... But the US Feds should be cracking skulls
engraving it wont do shnit. they used a grinder to cut the converter out. they can also use the grinder to grind out the engraving.
That would be to easy can't fix a broken system🤦🤦🤦
@@MontyRoyal963 too busy chasing their tail
Lol
And the lawmakers and judges who allow this to happen, and happen, and happen with little consequences are as equally to blame as the thieves. Same with the scrapyard guys who know the converter is stolen but buys it anyway. Absolutely disgusting that we put up with it ...
Agreed
Also the businesses that won't hand over surveillance video to help, as well as the cops that say "sorry nothing we can do, go away"
LOL why am I not surprised. Only Las Vegas. I know what you should do research Lake Mead water shortage once you see how low the lake is and how much little time you have you will then decide let me get the heck outta here. Problem solved 👍👍👍👍
Chief Running Turtle: How would the scrapyard owner feel if they stole his catalytic converter from his car because of his policy of buying stolen cataiytic converters.
Cops love criminals . They are now a protected class.
Just heard of a guy who died after the car he was stealing the cat from fell on him. Damn harbor freight jack stands!!!
No shit 😂😂😂
Bam! Justice Served!
Should of got wal mart Jack stands smh
Hahahaha
I been using wal mart jack stands ever since started working on cars when I was 15 I’m 23 now and still use wal mart jack stands and never had a issue with them I literally went full bolt on on my old 96 civic and was under car for literally 30 mins luckily they work great I don’t trust wal mart jack stands with my life but I still use em
It's part of a larger problem, that our government and criminal justice system are absolutely indifferent to the hardship of hardworking honest citizens. In 1991 I had my ten year old, rusted Honda Civic stolen off the street in Queens, NYC. When the cop came to take a report an hour later he said that an old car like that is worth much more for parts and it was probably already in 2000 different parts by now. I researched car theft in NYC and found that in the preceding year there about 15,000 car thefts in NYC. Of these about 1200 of the thieves were caught. Of the 1200 that were caught about 160 went to trial and of these only 64 served jail time. I'm a dentist and at the time was struggling to save every penny to get out of that sh*thole of a city and didn't bother buying a car to replace it. So it struck me that stealing cars is literally safer legally than being a dentist in NYC. Really pathetic.
Years back I was told by my insurance company that my Brooklyn zip is one of the worst for damage and car theft. They said they have insure the entire state but would certain exclude some areas if they could.
I unfortunately knew people in NY that made a very good living off "petty" crimes like that. Really sad.
I know no scrap yard with the ambition to look up any VIN #. Period. Most are just as crooked as the thieves bringing the stolen items in.
But not as crooked as your mother when she starts asking to be paid.
in all my years working on cars i have never seen a vehicle identification number stamped into a cat converter.
I can go to my scrap yard right now and scrap any car, ten years or older and don't even need the title!
I mean, it's not like the vin info is hard to get. Just take a picture.
@@jw7037 a good cat thieve can leave the cat on the car and drive it all right over the scale. Get an extra 200 bucks.
It is always the same reaction to any crime. Make the victim take steps , expense to protect their investment, never go after the criminals, make them pay the price, in the form of higher fines and jail time.
Unfortunately jail time is incredibly expensive, costing taxpayers , there's no quick and easy solution to crime
@@johncford3957 yes there is, stop criminalising the victim when they exterminate the vermin.. self solving problem.
this year the police have higher budgets each year
@@internetpointsbank3728 not in California or any blue states that demand Defund the Police
Don't worry even if they are handed the criminal on a silver platter with video and admission of guilt the liberal judicial activist prosecutor will still let them go. People know they have nothing to worry about anymore. Except of course me dropping my car on their skull when they are under it. If I see anyone under my car I'm kicking the opposite side tire as hard as I can and laughing while the jack goes flying.
Here in Maryland, I took two old deep cycling batteries to the recyclers. Had to give them my license, and they took my picture before the transaction. They said this was the law to prevent illegal scraping. Simple cure for Catalytic Converters, Batteries AC Coil and Copper Thieves. Should be done Nationwide.
They've been doing that for.many years now in Houston texas area even for recycled aluminum cans
@@AGRIMMDEATH13 cant in maryland we have real id they cant be faked
😆 thieves don't take stolen metals to legit scrap buyers.
almost impossible to justify having a cat all fed laws ignored how many people change them them selves there are hundreds shown on local face book all sawed off shops unbolt them
@@AGRIMMDEATH13 take 10 cats to a mainstream scrapyard without a business license and let me know how it goes
Come down hard on scrapyard owners, make them prove that each converter came from a licensed shop, if not charge them with a crime. If the scumbags can't sell the converters they'll stop stealing them.
There was a major cat theif operation busted in my town a while back (Prescott Valley, AZ). In the raid they found something like 20,000 cats. These guys were gathering from all over and then loading them on a semi and taking it to Mexico to avoid the law.
Catalytic converter, thieves came for platinum but I only give them lead.
You gave them head instead?
@vidal77boxing simp?
Damn right
That's a good thing!
Equivalent exchange
If an oil change location was smart, they'd jump on the paint idea. Price it at 10 bucks
They would charge you $10 and not do it just like their oil and filter changes.
@@fernarias 😂😂
I can’t imagine paint deterring anybody. What they want is inside anyways.
@@delegate104 Not high temp paint baked on by the hot converter. I don't know what brake cleaner you are using but I doubt it comes off that easy. Just for kicks I'm going to do this to my beater truck just to prove myself right
@@fernarias 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Instead of asking law abiding citizens to do this and that, why can't they hand down much harsher punishments for pests caught stealing them??
Wouldn't work in urban areas. Crime and politics go hand in hand. City county and state politicians have a quid pro quo arrangement. Even if a thug does get arrested, they're out and the DA doesn't file charges.
Liberalism is the transfer of blame from the guilty to the innocent. You should have painted it bright orange, you dumbasss.
Democrats
@@waterheaterservices Don't they all early vote from jail now?
They instead punish citizens who take steps to protect their property. See what happens to you if you do any harm to a thief you caught in the act.
Manufacturers need to get rid of them . Don’t need em !
There's only one thing to do with these people, INCLUDING the dirty scrap buyers.
You know what it is and it's NOT jail time.
When i stayed in Kiev , Ukraine long ago the city mafia collected tribute from the business owners but they did their job for it, the city streets were safe at night, if a business or it's customer was robbed or attacked, mafia justice was swift, no courtroom just the perp was beat bad or more. The crooks would rather had the police pick them up
You mean "get-a-rope!" ?
Give them a fine ⚡︎
They are total Bandits scrap yards junk yards Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
@@safffff1000 Unfortunately, Russia wants to raid Ukraine to destroy this functioning democracy and self determinance. They can't have functioning democracy right next door. Why do stupid Trumpsters traitors support Putin's Russia?!?!
Shout out to the anchor lady looking like an attractive piece of winter fresh gum
She has Two big reasons
@@cruzdeleon1888 I noticed
@R S I dont mind some chunk but I hate cellulite
Damn I can only imagine what the AT&T girl was going through if this bodacious woman is getting checked out and gawked at but yea she is a good cuddle buddy!
Lmao that cool fresh breeze🙈
Do what we did in the UK, no more cash in hand just bank transfer and have to have a Registered waste licence to scrap it.
Idk about a licence, you guys over there in the UK love your licenses
How well did it work?
Making it go underground will only make it even more expensive. You can't stop cash transaction. They only way is to do undercover sting operations to catch the sellers and buyers of obvious stolen converters.
OMG, thia apartheid Europe, there noone can live free...
@Dolan Rockwood 🤣🤣
I think that if car manufacturers can make you remove your front wheel in order to change the car battery, they certainly can think of something to make it harder to remove the cc.
i don't see how painting your converter will deter theft. two things will make this stop. eliminate converters and make it legal to shoot anyone attempting to steal one off your car.
How about someone inventing a catalyst that does not use precious metals to work?
@@BobJones-fc3ef Good luck on trying to find enough materials that can handle that amount of heat cycles.
It's legal as long as they were threatening your life with the Sawzall they were holding.
The elimination of the internal combustion engine is already well on its way. EV's are the future.
It doesn't have to be legal to shoot them. Sometimes guns just go off on their own.
I cut the thief's hands off and give them back in the morning. Lmao
Nice,that should sort that out.well at least until a different thief comes along. Hehe, lol. or ED209 comes to mind.
Ike in the Middle East, cut hands off, no hands no stealing..
nah, cut off balls, thats even better
Friend was getting his fender skirts on his car stolen he taped razor blades on the reliese handle twice he would find blood on his car when they would try to steal them ,.
Completely covering the catalytic converter area with a steel plate like was shown, even with a few holes like it had, is very dangerous. Cats run at a very high temperature and trapping that heat in could lead to a very bad time.
There are other cage designs out there that have been around for a few decades. Some involve a daisy chain method that wraps around the converter and permanently locks into place by special anti-tampering bolts. Most theives won't bother touching it because it takes too long to steal it.
I have customers rolling in with mud baked on, 1 to 2 inches of mud cooked on. the mud acts like an insulator keeps the cat warm in the winter and the summer time it keep me from getting burned.
YOU ARE CORRECT SIR, THE HEAT WOULD BE TRAPPED AND THE INTERIOR WOULD GET HOT, BAD IDEA, A SCREEN WOULD BE BETTER.
Why not implement a chainmail wrap? And if you have one, weld it onto your exhaust pipe before and after the cat. Or you can use the chainmail as a way to make that mesh so the cat can breathe. Most of the time these guys have that special metal pipe cutting tool on Amazon, the chain thing wraps around the pipe, three twists and it's off. So about 1 minute is all it takes to snatch a cat. You could also weld a cage around the cat, kind of like a milk carton. Use angle iron, weld a U box, connect the four bottom pieces and make a cross section. Make the ends of the U smaller than the cats diameter so if they manage to cut it, they can't take it out. I'm going to start suggesting this to all the truck owners I know... Lol.
@@GarronGoesGaming SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
Engraving does NOT stop them. I had mine engraved and a week later it was gone. $2,000 later had to replace muffler and catalytic converter. My sister and neighbor had the same experience, got it engraved and week later it was gone. Oddly enough, we all got it engraved at the exact same toyota dealer that the police had put out a flyer for free engraving. Coincidence, no, I think it was an inside job at that toyota dealership. Someone working there or someone there passing on information about the vehicle and location to outside. Did any of us ever hear from police? Nope, never, not a word. Besides with the current criminal laws, they would just be given a ticket for a misdemeanor and let go to go steal more.
Engraving can also be ground off quickly.
@@chrisd5133 I suspect mine was stolen. I want to “engrave” the guy who stole it if that’s the case.
I also feel like a lot of these places are in on it.
Imagine having a car that starts the engine from the key and see a guy trying to remove you catalytic converter and you just blast his eardrums
Not a bad idea. Nothing like a cold start.
Well I imagine most cars start from the damn key
@@MrPoot-cx9ez thinking same thing
@chak lee I touched a nerve with you haha!
Thats always in my head ,I got remote start and always keep my keys by the bed 🛌 ready to start anytime
How about we start making examples of the criminals when they get caught.
Knowing what punishment awaits them is a bigger deterrent than anything.
I agree, cement shoes.
It's probably a lot of junkies. They'd stab their grandma for their next fix.
Harder punishments don't work. Making them not having to steal does. Free education, free healthcare.
@@esaedvik we do have free education and Healthcare. Public Education and Obamacare. Rate of Cat theft still increases. Socialism is not the answer as there's still theft in Venezuela
@@esaedvik Why not free everything, I mean heck free food, free pu$$y, free cars and houses... oh wait, someone has to pay for that thru hard work and taxes.
I'm not interested in paying higher taxes so a junkie can get their fix, they can get a job like the rest of us and earn their way thru life.
I live in the Bronx, I've had 5 attempted vehicle break ins over the last year and had my catalytic converter stolen off my van.
The last guy had a better car than I did.
They're easier to shoot under your auto you don't have to lead them as much
I totally agree!!
My thoughts as well!
Then back, forward, back, forward, repeat until mush. Send a message.
or just kick em in the nuts.....when they double up in pain, they knock themselves out.....allowing time for the po po to show up
Nah, just twist the handle of the jack leftwards a bit
The businesses buying these stolen converters are as guilty as the thieves. If they refused to buy them, there would be no demand, and theft would stop. Only MASSIVE fines AND JAILTIME will "encourage" these CRIMINAL businesses to NOT willingly and KNOWINGLY receive stolen property! IMO
How does the $6 come into play?
2000 degree spray paint is 3 to 4 times that!
Edit 12/14/21 : I may have to change my tone here, I bought the $18 2000 degree paint and found out that most of the outer part of the Cat is a shield that does not get near 1600 degrees, and that 500-degree paint might be fine!
Also when I painted mine I got a sheet of 3/4" vinyl letters and numbers from Dollar Tree and used them to put my Vin # on the Cat before painting, after the paint dried I peeled them off and went over them with my etcher. The number is very prominent!
I also got 15' of 5/16" steel cable and wove it around and threw holes in the frame and Cat shield loosely, hiding the cable clamps above the Cat. Anyone who has cut a steel cable with a hacksaw will know how difficult this will be for a thief under your car.
$6 for a hacksaw seems over priced.
I guess they're going off the fact you could cover a few cars' convertors with one can of paint, so pooling with a couple people on one can of paint.
I don't know. Maybe the $6 is the price for an engraver? I was trying to find where in the video where that cost came into play.
@@JosephHelmstetter I think the reporter didn't do their homework, 500-degree high heat paint can cost only $6 but the cat runs at 1400 to 1600 degrees I think so now you have to buy 2000- degree paint for $20, still worth it to help keep thieves away. They got my wife's cat in a mall parking lot it cost us over $300 to replace with the cheapest one.
@@JosephHelmstetter My local PD does the engraving for free. Call yours!
I've installed airbags on my truck. Once it detect motion under the vehicle while off, it deflates and i have pancakes.
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Does deflating an airbag do the same thing as inflating one? I think your head is deflated, pancake maker. LOL
Or make it a law that when a person's gets caught stealing a cat they get all their possessions stripped from them and 5 years in jail
Most cat thieves only own a bad meth habit and a cordless sawzall!
They Stole my BMW M4 Catylic Converter Last Year With My 4 Wheels.
I wish this on no one, waking up to this
Will really mess up your day.
WOWWWW. SMDH
How much cost you to repair all these parts?
I added a 'speed bump' in the driveway so that when I park my truck, it only allows for less than 3' of clearance from the Cat! 👍👍
Sadly that will not prevent them from stealing if vehicle is parked elsewhere. A experienced crew with the right tools can do it in 5 minutes.
@@eddienino8488 mine are hard they're tucked in the engine bay = impossible to take but i got full coverage just incase since it's 2,000 to replace both of them and only 100$ more every 6 mo
@@eddienino8488. Try 30 seconds!!
You fell for that scam called "insurance". Insurance companies will not replace them with oem parts. Also they'll simply raise your rates so you're actually paying them twice regardless.
that's why the tRUMP criminals carry a JACK with them . duh
I stole my own and used it to pay for dual exhaust!
I had the same thinking when I cut mine off my first truck..got the catalytic down to the scrap yard and...they told me it was worthless. The honey comb had blown out into my muffler I guess..so that explained the noise in my muffler lol. Obviously cut that off too and had a shop weld the hollow cat and a flow master back in, sounds great!. Not to loud not to quiet👌 my plan for the catalytic scrap $ to cover the cost "backfired" on me lol ended up costing me 160$..lesson learned..dont count your money before ya got it👍
They stole your converter, and you bought another one, and you realised it fits perfectly!!
Mechanic that was a family friend of mine loved trolling thieves, he had a junk pickup that he kept installing "fake" cats on, they got stolen like 6 or 7 times, he had taken scrap cats, hollowed them out and filled with em rocks and other worthless materials xD
They would be in for a surprise if they tried to steal mine. Its hollow 🤣
Yes! First sign of blockage it gets the hammer and rod!
Been there done that.
What about emissions tests?
@@Mario_N64 I live in an area where they don't test. Otherwise yes, testing would be a problem.
Trouble is they will still cut it off and then find it empty.
Damage still done that you have to repair.
Maybe the city should use bait 🚙 too?
The day they take mine they will be pist.... jokes on them it's already empty!
Isn’t the cost of catalytic converters in the thousands? Charge them with felonies instead of misdemeanor C including the shop owners who bought them…
Like they can't just grind off the vin if you engrave it, LMAO!
Yes he never seen a grinder 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍🤣🤣🇨🇦
A the case around the converter is sheet metal. A brand new grind mark on an old cat - something ain't right about this deal.
You'd need the proper documentation to sell it to reputable dealer.. same goes for guns. But I'd hate to get caught with an altered gun..
@@zalmaflash If the buyer is willing to accept several cats with cut off ends they already know what's going on. A little grind mark won't change anything.
First thing i thought of
Beware, that the casing might cause the catalytic converter to overheat and get damaged or cause the vehicle to catch fire.
I live in Bavaria Germany and I‘m very happy to have a strong police fighting those criminals.
Sometimes it is perfect to live in a neighborhood, where people care and such thief’s have no margin that would encourage them to risk getting jailed.
Good for you... Here things are backwards.. these losers have more rights than the victims thanks to the progressive, communist, liberal globalist derailed dems, haters of America. Sad. Pray for America.
Civilized people in a homogeneous community is nice, we no longer have that here in the US.
Thieves are not going to be jailed under current administration. "soft on crime" policy
not sure about germany, but in america and also here in australia they are going to any area to commit crimes now.
they will get into gated communities with 24/7 on site security and steal all the cats before anyone realizes like it's oceans 11.
@paulalvarez8534 Cats get hotter when actually driving even with highway speed airflow.
Had it happen to me back in 2010, stole it right in my work's parking lot! Crazy!
Same with me two months ago. Cost me $320.
Crazy thing is, it's happened to others there, and the company owner knows it. His tax records show he makes $14 million a year, and he doesn't provide us a safe place to park.
@@StarJar58 sad
Shyt happened to me this morning after clocking out from work. I drive an odyssey. Yes a family van
Shit man I’m here watching videos like these cuz it happened to me today at my works parking place, informes the security and they said they can’t do anything about it smh 🤬
We need to vote for The Party and defund police
The State of Texas is dragging their feet on this issue, why, who are lobbing the law makers to do nothing?
Having been hit twice over the years, nothing short of summary execution will stop converter thieves.
The first time my converter was stolen, my truck was at work. Thieves stole converters off every Toyota truck on the parking lot. Surveillance cameras allegedly must have been made by Sgt Schultz, as they saw nothing, nothing at all.
The second time my new truck was at the dealership for a recall campaign. Instead of parking the truck inside their gated storage lot, it was left outside. Thieves hit close to 15 trucks, stealing all four converters off the V8 powered trucks. Cost of factory new converters and pipes, $4500 per truck.
Sgt schultz A1 used cats
Execution? That's a lie. There are many other ways. If you support execution for that then that means that you are against the Constitution, you are against our constitutional rights.
Sue the dealership.
Did dealer pay for them all
@@glopan12345
The dealers insurance paid for the replacement as well as a rental for the three weeks it took to obtain the converters.
I have a “craniac converter” works decent when rearranging skulls
I call mine a Bitch be Good
Funny thing is, if people spent this amount of time at a JOB, they would probably do less work and get paid more.
No way. Takes only less than a few minutes or less if you watch the videos. They get an item that they can see for $150-$200 in a few minutes. No job out there that they bums will get ever come close to making that amount of money in that amount of time.
You would be mistaken, catalytic converters are worth a lot of money, prius cats are worth over a grand, ive seen a video where thieves stole one in under a minute, pretty messed up but I am curious what Sawzall blades they use because that was impressive
@@lumpyzx2645 I work on metal ducting, etc, Milwaukee tools makes some good blades. $30 for a fuggin 5 pack but man, they will eat pipe like nothing. Fence posts, etc. Kinda funny saying that aloud..... hey Milwaukee what are you up to? Plus all those neat shaped battery powered saws..... lol
@@MrLandslide84 I can't remember what blade I used that cut exhaust like butter, it was either Milwaukee, Lenox, or Diablo, but I haven't cut much exhaust, all I know is shocks and leaf springs take the life right out of em, which doesn't surprise me with the chrome plated hardened steel rod inside the shock, but leafs are too hard to cut
Absolutely! And not have to live their lives looking over their damn shoulder!
If judges gave full sentences and eliminated probation, people wouldn't do this.
The cat was cut out from my friend's Prius a few months ago. He bought cheap aftermarket and installed it just so the car wouldn't throw any error codes and make it quiet. A couple of weeks ago the same thing happened again. Twice in 3 months. The same car.
That's infuriating!
He needs to move if the thievery is that bad in his area.
1000 volts. Get a solar powered electric fence unit,
The newer cats bring in less money a lot less if an experienced thief sees an aftermarket they usually won’t touch those you might get 8.00 for one, I used to do Cash For Junk Cars several years ago and I was stunned on how little they bring, I stopped cutting them off, it wasn’t worth it and the junkyards were always happy to see them still on
Didn't someone get electrocuted trying to steal a cat from a prius? At least, hopefully it't true.
Was she saying something? I was.............distracted.
She is proof that everything really is bigger in Texas.
What a magnificent lady.
Had to replay it twice to see her face. Lol
"engrave your catalytic converter" .... 5 seconds with an angle grinder....
"Paint it"... A few more seconds longer... Or cheap acetone
Move to a non Mayate city and or state, and you won't have to worry!
That news lady is pretty stacked
The legit scrap yards are "required" to vet sellers of scrap with identification. If a scrap yard receives large amounts of catalytic converters that have clearly been sawed off they should report it and supply the police with the recorded finger prints, photos and identifications of the seller. So why is this still going on? The scrap yards are either in on it, the sellers have a connection to bypass the city ordinances or they are going out of city ordinance jurisdiction to sell to smaller "mom & pop" scrap yards that dont care about where the scrap comes from. In the end money talks. Thevies got my catalytic converter about a year ago on a used truck i had bought a couple of years earlier, I came to find out that the one they had cut out and stolen was a replacement installed by the previous owner. When I called the police to file a report, I was advised that it is pretty much a lost cause to hope for justice unless it gains publicity. I guess now is that time.
I agree.
I caught one trying too steal, lowered the jack ,his friends took off ,left him there for awhile until I had too go too work ,kept the jack, he slowly walked away crying
they sell them on facebook...
facebook must STOP that
they dont even put them in jail
Need to hit the source , ie: the unscrupulous characters that are buying them no Questions asked .
If they didn’t buy them the thieves wouldn’t steal them .
That's like saying if people quit buying audio equipment, wheels, or anything else people want that people would quit stealing it because they couldn't sell it, it's not the buyers fault, it's criminals and thieves being lousy people, you don't seem to understand what is inside of catalytic converters, what those precious metals are worth, and that they can be recycled. If you want to blame somebody for catalytic converters being stolen, blame the EPA for requiring them in the first place
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Sorry I disagree, I know they’re worth money.
If your a scrap merchant and some guy says do you want to buy a ton of catalytic converters from a whole bunch of different cars. You’d have to be a complete idiot to not think for a moment that they’re stolen. Even if someone sells the odd one or two, anyone in a business should require some form of proof that these are genuine. Otherwise they’d be as much as a low life as the person who stole it, It’s Fuelling the whole vicious cycle. Catching one criminal gang today doesn’t stop the thefts .
The only way to stop the thrift is by making it harder for thieves to off load them.
If there’s nobody willing to buy them then it’s pointless for the thieves to even steal them .
@@mark-1rc502 I have a cat now that came off a 99 Subaru. I owned it, car was scrapped. I'm the owner...but I have no way to prove that. I helped a mechanic for years. I would collect his cats and sell them for him. (I would drive them to the largest cat buyer in the states. (They had the facility there that actually produced new after market converters). I again had no way to prove what cars the cats came from. If the re-manufacturers don't have the used cats to work with, the recycling concept shuts down. If only there were jobs out there for these thieves....
@@Dancing_Alone_wRentals
I get that , May be the Vin no. Can be etched on to the CAT And proof of Vehicle Scrapped ?🤷♂️
If the vin ground off don’t accept
@@mark-1rc502 It would be hard. The thieves would buy the etching tool, Harbor Freight would sell a battery powered clone, Carmax would provide them endless vin numbers to fake. A way to do it would be to have a dealer system for cats just like for guns. That level of documentation and scrutiny but I think people on a whole would not want it due to how it would drive up the costs
Today, you buy a cat...shell out big bucks, and it bolts on fairly easily. In the future only certified dealers could do the repair for you. Imagine the costs.
Probably easier to invent a motion alarm around the cat when the car is parked. (You know...you and I should do this....You can be CEO of this company, I'll be CFO)
When I sold my old one, the scrap yard took a picture of my DL and registration, why is that so hard?
Because it's RACIST, just like VOTING, you should be able to scrap freely without being ID-ed. . . . :)
@@peterdarr383 That is NOT Party approved correct thinking and speech.
Meanwhile, the thieves they pay to rob cats, come in the back door.....
Maybe the scrapyard employees are stealing .....bypassing records laws
Tig weld razor blades to your converter. Like a cacti shield.
Now this is the kind of thinking we need more of.
Too brittle... probably fall off after a week of driving
That's what we did to underdash 8 track players in the 70s.
Electrify it somehow!
In my city, some thieves tried 3 different times to steal some guys catalytic converters from his truck. On the last broad daylight attempt, the owner and his roommate came out with their paintball guns and let them have it. It was caught on their ring video.
See that's one of those cases where the crook could have sued y'all for even shooting him with no lethal weapons. All he had to do was slip and fall when running from you and he'd be getting paid. Supposed to be in direct fear of your life before it is right to utilize a weapon of any kind. 🤷🏻♂️.
Live ammo or stay in the house pu*ks
@@jakefidd8344 Not true, there have been cases of people who killed cat thieves and weren't charged. As they shouldn't be.
You could put books in a circle around your cars those thieves are terrified of books.
Stacks of job applications and drug rehab pamphlets.
They are just trying to feed their families remember? Leave cans of food under your car so they take those instead
@@stuckgrenadepin.225 Job applications, you heartless bastard. We are just trying to scare them away not give them heart attacks.
@@Bellthorian we aren’t?
Put work boots around your car, thugs will never come near it.
Install hydraulics like a lowrider. As soon as they start cutting. "Drop it like its hot" on the cutter. 🤣
This is a serious subject and you are being childish. The thief would get squished like a cockroach...How would you get that mess off your nice car? You risk being late for the drive-in movie because you had to go through the car wash.
Think before you write...
@@Dancing_Alone_wRentals 🤣🤣
As illegal as that is there could possibly be an option to drop the car to the ground when parking (sort of like the old Citroens) . It wouldn't be cheap though.
@@Dancing_Alone_wRentals - all that Marleyboy is trying to tell us is that his idea guarantees that the thief wouldn't have the guts to do it again.
@@WakeUpAmerican000s that was good. The thief would still be flat as a pancake from his last crime.
In the end, thieves will always be elected, sorry. Always be around. It is up to us to try and be proactive.
Only education can cure a thief.
Remember when thieves were stealing bronze memorial flower urns from cemeteries? Now they're worthless, because junk dealers won't buy them... 🌷🌷🌷
So are aluminum half barrels. Scrap yards by me won't take and distributors will only take there own back with proof.
I engraved "stolen by this thief" as deep as I could with my dremel!
I would say the cheapest option is to go get yourself $15.99 box of 9 mm bullets and just start firing until you see red
It only take one if you know what you’re doing. ;) Save the other 49 for the next thieves.
Please lead me to this fantasy land where 9mm is $15 a box, I need some badly.
Where I'm at a box of shells cost around $50 bucks. I don't want to waste the ammo.
@@joefratianni8693 I just bought a box at the post exchange on Fort Rucker.
Nothing cures a thief like a sudden case of GlockComa.
Holy Christ! This reporter is really built! I could watch her reporting on anything, for hours!
No doubt!!
Damn ,she'd be a bedroom full of endless fun!
You can always place a Catalytic converter no theft zone sign on your lawn. I mean it's worked wonders for drug free zones
and gun free zones
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@@chistosok5I guess they should be it legal to steal catalytic converters since it making it illegal has absolutely no impact on the frequency they happen, just like with gun violence, right?
Should be easy to make this a national law and a federal crime. ID, Vin etc. or heavy fines.
Connect your exhaust to a high power source, give the thieves a nice kick if they try and steal it
While that is a great idea, all your electricals and not to mention the car's ECM will be fried deeper then KFC's chicken
Booby traps are unfortunately not very popular with juries.
Look up the anti carjacking flame throwers in Brazil one of those wired up to a vibration sensor would do the trick
I read of a guy that got tired of having his car stereo stolen repeatedly so he got the bright idea of gluing razor blades under his dash. Didn't take long for someone to try to steal his equipment again. Person was seriously cut up by said razor blades and almost died from blood loss. Ended up suing the car owner. Won a judgment in the hundred of thousands against the car owner!
@@BobJones-fc3ef Thats why you kill them. One side of the story. Your life was in danger. Other side has no rebuttal to your claims.
In FL, the scrapyards already have the required verification in place.
A few years ago here in Maryland we were having the same problem. They made a law the same as she was talking about. You have to document where that converter came from and if the shop takes it in anyhow they could be forced to shut down or pay a huge fine for ignoring the law. Now it's very seldom that cats are getting stolen now. Of course it will never 100% go away but they are making it very hard for people who might not have transportation to go to another state and sell their stolen goods. Any bit helps.
They use the criminals to dictate buying habits. You people are so gollible. Baa baa sheep. Grow some brans.
BS! I live in Maryland and both my CC and my brother’s CC were stolen within two months apart! Mine was stolen two weeks ago and my brother’s was stolen two months ago! So much for that Maryland law, eh?
The last time this was going on they went to the buyers and made them have the sellers register their sales and that slowed it down by having to state where you got them and provide legal license for ID.
And should ask for Vehicle vin# for each cat.
She's FINE though!!!!
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Tig ol bits
Shes ugly af
@@dustinhodge4892 - I wouldn't say ugly af, but no, not very attractive. I was just calling a spade a spade and dem is some tig ol bits
Exaggerating
How about having a sensor that will automatically lower the vehicle to the ground, if the CC is messed with? That would both protect the CC and hang on to the attempted thief at the same time.
I was thinking mercury switch wired to explosives......armed when you press the door lock on the key fob.
That’s funny 😄
In America, which is where we are, the injured thief would hire a good lawyer and take everything you own including the catalytic converter.
Actually he might leave you with that just to add insult to injury. (pun intended)
@@skimanfree1073 Yea and in a liberal city there would be free lawyers appointed.
How about part of our alarm system it engages a shocking mechanism onto the converter itself I wire that is connected all the way it goes through your car or something that can actually shock them when they touch metal
I have a novel idea. eliminate the catalytic converter altogether until one can be developed with not so rare and expensive metals.
The Democrats would go crazy
Thinking like a Police officer or Politicians. Paint it bright or Edge it. They will drop it in a solution and easily remove the paint and they will buff the edged numbers. It would only work if you catch them red handed. Otherwise it won't work.
Also requiring vin numbers etc etc for a legal business just makes it harder and more paper work and hoops they have to do to process a cat for sale..
People on the black market will just bypass those laws or and minor solutions.
Best option is buy or have a custom under carriage plate for your car and have them weld a few points. Make sure to leave space for the Oxygen sensor to be removed if need be.
This is like restricting legal gun owners while criminals get guns from the black market, which will always be there, because of such laws.
Laws don't fix crap, criminals go around them or disobey them. Law just screw the good abiding citizen even more. It's a joke with laws these days.
if only Houston is introducing the bill, what's stopping them from selling in the next city?
If they try to cut mine off my camaro they probably gonna say “this dude just running long tubes and straight pipes bro!”
Same on my 92 chevy 1500
Camaro too low. Trucks are the easy target
Many of the buyers don't care if it is stolen, the buyer knows where to send it (into another state if necessary) to turn a buck, like anything else that is stolen.
...what exactly is it you think they're doing with them?
The best solution is no catalytic converter
I welded up and installed a "home brew" carbon steel cage on my catalytic converter last Friday - - engraved with the words "Have at it, Boys"
You funny 😄
My catalytic converters in like my 90’s pull out stereo... I just carry it around the mall with me while I pick up hot babes’
that shit started in the 80's man!
No, you don't have to always get them welded on. There are rivet on/bolt on (with security heads) kits now for some models that are even easier to install.
They can't steal your cats if you don't have any.
I caught one on my cell Camera, I was in my Van, Vanlife, and I hear a Saw going off behind my van, he targeted a Rav4, he made the 1st cut and I started filming him he made the second cut and gets up with it and shoves the Cat in a backpack, gets the saw and goes back away from my van and the Rav4 to his utility truck, got his face and the Truck he took off with.
A few hours later the owner of the Rav4 comes to my van, had the slide door open and asks: did you see anyone mess with my car? I said: Yes I got it all on video. He was so happy and very very thankful. I sent the video to him in a text. 2 hours go by and a cop knocks on my van door asking for a testimony, gave him everything he needed and told him: I hope you catch him.
What I noticed is that the thieves will target a Vehicle that is higher off the ground like a Truck or SUV because a car is too low and needs jacking up, less likely, too much effort and time for these thieves, in that case Weld a thick plate covering the Cat.
You shouldn't cover a catalytic converter. It gives off to much heat and could result in a fire.
@@susanbezio1529 u think u know about this stuff huh! its possible if u dont wrap "Heat Wrap" roll made withheat resistant material and fiberglass, it controls the actual exhaust pipe and Cat. from getting red hot and causing fires. go look it up, Racers wrap it on the Manifold and Motorcyclists wrap their exhaust pipes too
That’s all great but what if it needs to be repaired or replaced? How can anyone get in there to do the repair?
The busts ive seen on a few news channels, there is a HUGE pile of converters. I think they are being collected in bulk and shipped across the southern boarder hidden among other random scrap metal or put in shipping containers being sold outside of the US. Thats my guess.
I keep telling people that but they won't believe me. The cops caught thieves with over 8000 of them in Kent WA recently and another theft ring in Oregon had trafficked 44,000 of them. Nobody brings that many into a local scrap dealer. In both cases "out of state" buyers were buying them.
There must be a law that anybody who buy or sell catalytic converters outside the legitimate stores will be penalized.
scmashits send it to china to have it taken apart for precious metals. do you think chinese would give a shit?
Local radio ad “you work hard for your cats, get the most you can for them at XYZ recycling” I’m thinking “well, that’s not shady at all”. The VIN thing is a good idea but it would have to be stamped in, a couple of passes with a grinder would erase markings made with a buzz pencil engraver.
grind off the vin number, doubt anyone cares about paint when they get 500 bux for the interior material. Its not like they are re-using the converters. Silly idea
whats on the inside of a converter thats so valuable?
@@markherring3513 rare metals
@@markherring3513 Platinum mostly.
@@markherring3513 either platinum or rhodium or both, depending on which was cheapest when the factory made the cat, usually a few grams worth, very expensive metals.
The metals get melted down and made into new catalytic converters.
Damn that green dress fits so nicely
Yeppers 🥰
I've got an idea, stop manufacturing cars with catalytic converters! Its just another way for the EPA to gather money anyway.
When the ice age comes back.. everyone will be cutting off the cats to warm the planet back up. LOL !
@@terrygs28 absolutely. First it was global cooling, then global warming, now its "climate change" its all bogus. Don't get me wrong, I don't like pollution and taking steps toward clean water and air is a good thing. But we aren't all gonna die in 10 years like AOC makes it out to be. I feel bad for all the brainwashed kids learning this garbage.
This needs to be a FEDERAL law