Catalytic converter thefts ruining lives
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2022
- Criminals are stealing valuable catalytic converters from cars across the UK. It is becoming more and more common, with the expenses involved in fixing or replacing the cars ruining people's lives.
Sky News' Inzamam Rashid has the story.
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Scrapyards and metal dealers should be accountable for buying stolen CATs.
Simply: Regulations must ensure that cat converters comes from registered owners, or registered garages.
@@CXensation wont work .. they will cut them, recover and process the precious metals and sell them at much higher price that the scrap yard will pay.
Maybe regulations on people or companies selling precious metals, like provide evidence of provenience.
The have the facilities to get the raw material out. Scrapyards and metal dealers are accountable just like any other business. However like cable theft once the criminal have the ability to get the raw material out they have a wide range of option for selling. Including abroad.
Car companies should do more to make them harder to steal
One catalytic thief here in the U.S. had his jack fail and got killed by a prius. Afterwards the criminals family tried to sue the owner lol.
That is most American thing ever.
Fake news
The times we are living in is absolutely crazy.
Send the link 🤔
I hope they didn't get a penny😠
Please dont call these “minor crimes” a crime is a crime. The traumatic experience for innocent people can be huge
Indeed. Keep your hands off from someone elses' property! Dead simple.
They are considered minor crimes because they only affect ordinary people, were an alarm to go off at a bank, were a prominent figure or celeb to call the police, the response would be immensely different.
Well compared to murder or assault it is a minor crime?
All metal dealers must be required to DOCUMENT their purchases and the names/data of all sales.
Ever heard the word "capitalism" ? The system will always protect the business/corporations over the individual.
So they can have the name of someone that will not be prosecuted anyways????
They already ask for bank account details and a utility bill. But that's not where stolen cats end up anyway, they get melted down to extract the precious metals, which get turned into ingots and sold on, often to people outside the UK.
They did this with beer kegs, they should have to do the same with cats and fines should be huge with criminal charges brought to the owners of the yard if they can't trace back the owners
It's disgusting that certain types of crime and a certain level of crime has become acceptable to our Police Force, CPS and Govt.
Only when a certain group are committing the crimes mind..
The police force have no resource to tackle crime. Remember theresa may cutting around 2000 police officers and people kept voting in Tories? Or when she cut down nursing students funding? All consequences
Exactly we need very harsh punishments - put them in jail for 10 years for doing this and they will think twice
There need to be laws to tackle buyers in order to destruct their demands.
The UK is lawless
Handling stolen goods?
@@Grybyx nothing to do with that, the scrapyards that do accept them are dodgy scrapyards, they already laws inplace but the scrapyards are in on it.
we need second amendment in uk
@@jambo8442 and it keeps getting worse.
All metal dealers are complicit because they earn so much from it!
Ever heard the word "capitalism" ? The system will always protect the business/corporations over the individual.
£150-£800 per catalytic converter to be precise. People are puzzled as to why they get stolen but when they contain metals like Platinum and Rhodium thief’s are always going to target them.
Typical of UK police, the crackdown on the Stealing part is last on their list.
Officer on every street nationwide then?
@@Monolithinteal exactly lol
Officer Dibble on the beat.
Police managed to catch someone who did this to my friend. It went to CPS to charge and took a very long time to get charging authorisation. Charged and went to court. £100 fine. Thanks Justice system.
Police in uk are a joke . They would rather make money from us with speed cameras . Close all dealers that take these cats
My mate caught one of them that the guy had a machete my mate took the machete and kick his as bad , now my mate is being charged for aggravated assault and probably going to jail , the justice system in the UK is a joke !
Send them to jail for real that would put them off stealing.
Lmfao a machete!!! Haha well I'm from America and we look at machetes as toys
My wife had her catalytic converter stolen last year along with alot of people in the area I live in. The police did not want to know I was just given a crime number.
Scrap dealers should be enforced to only accept catalytic converters only if the log book is presented. Scrap dealers should be punished.
My thoughts exactly!
Good idea however scrappers just don’t care when they see £ signs.
To do this in broad daylight, this says a lot about the law in the UK…
No longer seems to exist.
Hasn't for a while, UK needs Reform
Mad how scummy some people can be
blame equality
travellers
💩 poor bad people all over the country great video
'people'
@@darshitcumdeepgupta6998 it happens in the usa as well so your comment wouldn't make sense all people are doing it in alot of countries
Make car alarm systems where if somebody goes under your car, the wheels detracts and crushes the person underneath it.
@@deopsm The smart people crushing alarm will be able to tell a person from a cat.
That’s a “booby trap” and it’s a federal crime. Get robbed 😂
@@suzyrottencrotch5132 Federal crime in the UK, interesting
@@suzyrottencrotch5132 "Federal" crime doesn't mean immoral.
Thanks god the cops have been keeping us safe from hurty words.
Wonder if the thieves take them down to Catalytic Converters.
Underrated comment
Genius
@@aron666xparamor6 Genius? 🤦♂️
😂
I like it…I like it a lot.
This has been happening for well over a decade, possibly two, car manufacturers need to put them internally, kept happening at our logistics company, was worth it the night we caught some, we didn't need the police and I guarantee the ones that did it to us won't do it again after we 'greeted' them.
Lol
They hit 600celcius and have multiple heat shields. Don’t want that in your car at all
Sweet justice 👌
My BWW 535i v8 has twin cats mounted in the engine bay.. why all cars weren’t designed like this I don’t know.
@@knwgt5426 ?
The guys goes about stealing Catalytic converter and uses baseball bat as weapon. , This an intent to use the baseball bat against any person tempting to stop them from stealing their exhaust. This is a deadly weapon. The impact of their crime on the victims can not be overstated. There must be a deterrent.
@Bruce Wayne 15 years to life for stealing a part of a car. Don’t be ridiculous. He stole a catalytic converter not kill someone.
Allowing property owners to defend their property (within means) without repercussion.
So in your example home owner stabbing the guy with the bat is lawful.
It's like the weird maths questions..."Dave has 74 catalytic converters..."
How do they sell them without raising eyebrows?
Require ID for selling and buying them. Documents provided by the owner of the vehicle that the converter can be recycled, linked to the VIN, Drivers License, Address, Photos taken of the buyer and seller at the time of exchange, uploaded to a data center, etc. AI could run against the data looking for suspect transactions. Audits of the scrap yard have to account for every single converter and the buyer and seller.
In the US, they cause a ton of paperwork for semi truck drivers that is audited. This problem seems like it could go away with an set of frustrating laws imposed on businesses.
Just put a ban on scrap yards, scrap metal merchants from purchasing them from unlicensed sellers !
Plenty of dodgy licensed ones so won't stop it
Happened to me. £1500 and my 24 years no claims gone. Im a single mom and was putting myself through medical degree and had no way to pay other than using my student loan. Changed my life.
Youre an AI
If the thief's are caught they should be asked what hand they write with. Break it and they get a warning that'll last longer than any jail sentence.
Thieves
Islamic punishment for theft looking appealing now eh ?
Bruh this is not 14th century Arabia
I will take a broken arm over any prison sentence lol
@@lanceryderwilson8618 honestly, if I was PM, I would bring back these kind of punishments, crime would fall dramatically and GDP would go up
straight pipes baby
Unlock the power
All the way
They need a bit of 'Street Justice' . 🏴
A certain section of society and the way they live is disgusting 🥧 🔑
What does a pie and key mean
@@nuriben7910 Lol.
@@nuriben7910 There's no symbol for a traveler.
I agree, the tories are just bloody awful! 😘😚☺🙃
Took me a second 😜
The blatant manor in which these criminals operate Is honestly overwhelming, and quite frankly I'm "EXHAUSTed"
Had mine stolen. Cost $1800 to replace on a old Prius. Prius are definitely the target. I’m going to make the thieves my target.
It's very simple make the scrappers have BANK accounts and only pay into there accounts.........after all its what all us law abiding plumbers were forced to do by our government
Their
They don't sell them to scrap metal merchants. There'll be a guy, who all the cat thieves know who buys cats, or they'll sell them to a middleman, who takes them to the cat buyer.
The cat buyers team specializes in melting down and extracting the metals, and then they know other people who will buy the ingots of precious metals.
Regular scrap dealers won't touch cats anymore even from legitimate sources. Too much paperwork, and they don't want the authorities snooping around their yards.
This is already the case.
My nan had one of these stolen, it's mad how quick they take it. She went in my dads house no longer than 2 minutes and it was gone by the time she come out.
A simple whole life sentence for getting caught doing this crime would be a good deterrent.
Or amputation
Grow up
@@thebodykeepsthescore2828 why? It would stop thieves from nicking ever again because they no longer have arms
other options should be exhausted prior to that
Lashes or arms amputated would be a good start and would definitely be a deterrent. Lashes should be done in public. I'm being deadly serious
Actually looked like a primitive tribe doing the primal gestures of joy from capturing some bush meat. Guess instincts are forever.
Ouch! 🤣
😂😂😂
UK police lack of ability and even more importantly lack of will to tackle crime is disgusting!
We need serious Reform in the UK
Britain is in emergency state of call for harsh criminal sentence.
I take my Catalytic converter of and only put it back on the day befor my MOT inspection after my car pass the test I get it taken off again and store it in my garage.
Always puzzled by this. When I had a bespoke system installed on my Audi TT, I took the old catcons to several different scrap dealers. They didn't want to know! A couple of them knew me, so it wasn't because they were afraid I'd nicked them.
It is these group of scrap merchants who have to be targeted and then the merchants buying off them Ned to be literally shut-down and massive prison sentences given for these thefts but the softly-softly posse in that pathetic politically correct loony part of people bend over backwards for these criminals,perhaps their motor-vehicles should identified as their next targets, then how will they feel then?
It's likely that the organised crime can arrange it so it appears the cats are coming from a legitimate source. Exhaust shop given a backhander to take them to the scrappy.
A lot may go overseas as well where they can be broken down where there is less oversight.
These are foreign gangs doing this and shipping the cats out of the U.K.
@@sparky6612 that makes more sense
@@sparky6612 stealing catcons is a pikey thing
Diversity is our strength
@@oscarmurphy3441 😂😂😂
@@AnthonyD-yy2in is shanghai 36% chinese?
we need more Romanians and travellers. They generate extra revenue for Cat makers thus good for GDP.
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Has anyone started a go fund me for this lady? She deserves better.
Search unforeseen consequences of crime in GFM and it will come up 😊
My old car just sits there being ignored lol.
Let's see how many catalyst are stolen with threat and implementation of your right hand being cut off if caught and convicted.
Anyone caught stealing catalytic converters should get 10 years / item they've stolen. If they're behind bars, they won't commit any crimes outside the prison and with good luck they will never leave the prison either.
At some point people will stop reporting crimes to the police and start being judges, juries and executioners all at the same time themselves.
I've already started 👌
Weld a plate over the cat. Job done and problem solved
We had ours stolen in bright daylight at the mall. Went in to see a movie and two hours later got into our truck when we noticed the converter was stolen. It cost $1,000. Dollars to replace it. This time we got a lock for it, which we recommend.
How much do these de-catters charge? Labour costs are extortionate these days
Just had my whole car stolen in the US from a tik tok video teaching people how to break into cars. When I showed up to the yard to identify my car there were 100 other vehicles of my make and model that the police said were stolen in the last week. Even though Insurance paid me above market value, I cannot replace the car in today's used Market
@@coolhandluke2926 Grinded* Thieves*
@@coolhandluke2926 the spelling doesn't really matter right now. Wally
Scrap sector is not regulated enough.
Scrap dealers know exactly who is doing it an who is paying for it.
Takes tough regulation to stop fencing/passing off stolen materials.
10 year sentence min, the low life wasters & 5 year for the buyers if proven guilty!!!
Happened to me twice. Got a cat protection kit fitted by Mr car max in harrow for 260 pounds. People have tried multiple times and not even scratched the surface.
Interesting
Well done for the police taking this and watch crime seriously!
do they take anything seriously?
They have handed out 100,000 crime reference numbers.
That's all they do now days
@@motorcyclerescuer The police force has reduced in the last 12 years, I mean we all know who's to blame.
Back in the old days, the thief's would get their hands chopped off.
Good job we have such an effective police force, god bless them.
This feels like a London issue..
I had a catalytic converter stolen twice in the space of a month. I had to sell my car because I couldn't afford to keep replacing it. I no longer have a car. It seriously impacts my ability to visit my aged mother.
Crime against humanity here in the UK 🇬🇧 what are we paying taxes for?...
Anyone buying should go minimum 7 years in prison
Baffles me as to why people would want to live in the West .
Nearly killing themselves to move here so must be reasons.
Yep, one of my colleagues had his stolen from car just before Christmas in St Leonard’s. And his car is a classic so it cost him a small fortune to get it replaced.
Bait cars in highly affected areas with trackers in the Cat converters would catch alot and raise the risk for the thieves
Honestly theres so many ways to catch em but police are too lazy lol
It's always the same people too!!
white skinned people?
Yeah, I noticed they were white too
If mine were stolen I wouldn't be buying a new one 😂
These thieves are absolute vermin and the police should pull their finger out and sort this out.
It could easily be sorted out over night by shutting down the demand for the catalytic converters!
The scrap dealers know exactly who these thieves are because they must be coming in daily with a huge numbers of them and no other scrap parts.
Just fine them them for handling stolen goods, they are as bad as the thieves themselves by not asking any questions and turning a blind eye.
Anyone who brings in any scrap car parts should have to display a licence or permit that they are a scrap car dismantler or a garage disposing of scrap parts.
There should be some paper trail, such as ID, name and address of businesses and what car the part came off, it should either come with a certificate that the car was scrapped or a receipt/ invoice for a new catalytic converter if it came from a garage and their old one was replaced.
Instead the police will just say let the car owners insurance deal with the loss and the thieves continue on.
Nah its higher than that, Its full blown businesses that buy them back, most are shipped out the uk. Most end up in the balkans and europe i.e germany
Every scrap dealer that has a cat should have the paperwork to back it up, and if false accounting occurs, that should double the offence. 🤔
Poor Margaret 1 theft is bad but 3 is terrible.
Mankind who is in charge, appreciates this happening, lots of joy in others suffering
Sadly this has been going on for years, I'm almost 40 an I can remember when I was 13-14 ppl would do this and sell them to the local scrap yard for good money
In fairness it's what Liverpool is famous for. Three infamousness’: Thieves is first, the love of being persecuted bring them falsely together, and the oppression of their fellow strugglers by their own neighbours. Famous for the biggest city of people who make life miserable for their own compatriots. I am not from the city but served them for 11 years in charitable role and felt sorry for the people who suffered over 1000 thefts a week from their own people. I disgusting place.
Calm down calm down
🙉
It's the scrap men that drive round for scrap metal are the culprits, they eye up the cars that are the easiest to take off the catalytic converters , they come when your in bed and do the scrounging .
Let in southern eastern Europeans they said....It will be fun they said....Yeah!
The uk in 2023. Can't even park your car.
Come on it must be very limited how many buyers there are for catalysts!
Basically demand documentation or else the buyer will be charged with the theft!
That would make it stop quite quickly.
Clearly not or there wouldn't be the scale and money involved.
Others are explaining WHY they are stolen and WHAT happens to them afterwards, including the fact that they are usually then sold OVERSEAS either entire or merely the expensive parts taken from them.
@rgagregre is that something that chop shops just buys?
My guess is that they don’t, but buys the whole catalysts. But something has to be done about it. And increasing police resources to focus on that specific crime, won’t help impact it as the crisis this is.
Demand documentation, so if they can’t document where they got the catalyst or the rare materials that are inside of them. They can’t sell them/it
That is some serious money right there, I would never have known
Get Catalytic converter cat shield from Ebay. They cost about £50
Problem solved.
Police won't do anything about it.
They can still cut it for an extra few minutes there
Just get cut of just as quick trust me ive been there and done it
@@sorin-alexandrusandu3738
They want to do it asap.
As soon as they see there is cat shield they will just go to next car.
This shows that the system is broken
25 catalytic converters stolen everyday in the UK is out of order. But I wonder how many unfair and unlawful parking tickets are given EACH DAY in the UK. Who are the real thieves?
My son had his stolen on his old car just when he was about to start his first job. It’s not underreported. Northumbria Police had cctv footage of the perpetrators including the criminals car and chose to do nothing about it. They didn’t even come out to see us. Would love to know what the 7% increase on the policing element of my Council Tax was spent on
Catalytic converter theft actually improved my life.
This just in... Poverty and desperation leads to crime.
happened exactly to my dad since the cars worth £50 but the converters worth like £400
Holy Christ! Speed jacks!
When mine was taken, the police officer I spoke with actually when I questioned his dealing with me, he admitted these low life criminals are smarter than then.
I just put gave up and up to date I am still paying.
Caught 2 guys doing it to my car. They'd just lifted it. They legged it. How I have a nice quick lift jack in the shed.
Uk is a dump I'm trying to get back to New Zealand or St Lucia not worth it here anymore. Everything is expensive, crime is just bad, miserable country the only good thing is the fireworks that happened this year.
Any offence is not a "small offence". Stop making excuses for thieves.
Bloody hell I might take my own off and sell it
Pays to invest in getting a cat guard fitted.
I tried that but got attacked by my own guard cat.
Catch them
Great reporting
Respect to Sky News for highlighting it. They have the footage police 🚔 should arest those criminal.
A society like this has to be a failed society. Their is less crime in poorer parts of the world
If we catch them in the act, can't we just take the law into our own hands for 15 seconds?
(Rhetoricol question)
rhetorical
@@SpeccyMan it was rhetorical
A few months ago , a guy was found dead under a car .The jack had collapsed on him .
( poetic justice )
Same thing happened to my brother’s new car and to replace it cost him alot
Time to go electric
Battery packs will be next
@@Robert-cu9bm Good luck to remove and run with them...
@@didierpuzenat7280
Don't underestimate the ingenuity of Crims
Wire it up to the mains or better still a huge ac capacitor and give them a Tazering they will never forget put the video on RUclips open a go fund me page ❤
Shocking I've seen so many videos of this. Terrible
Tried it with us but failed law didn't do jack even with CCTV
This was seen in the USA a few years ago
So sad...
I would investigate the people selling these on the internet as there will be many sellers behind the theft of these converters.
Funny how none of this is in the Gulf countries strict laws prevent this 🤔