Plumbers in Oakland have been robbed so often they are holding their own active shooter training

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Plumbers in Oakland have been robbed so often they are holding their own active shooter training​

Last week I wrote about a string of robberies in San Francisco that left business owners struggling to recover without any help or attention from police. One bar called the Black Magic Voodoo Lounge was robbed and it took police 15 hours to respond. That robbery happened a few days after a very similar robbery just up the street. It took police 36 hours to respond to that one.
Today the San Francisco Chronicle has a story about another type of robbery that has become more common over the past couple years. Thieves are targeting plumbers who are out on location, often stealing their trucks and all of the expensive tools they bring with them.

Plumbers in Oakland have been robbed so often they are holding their own active shooter training

Last week I wrote about a string of robberies in San Francisco that left business owners struggling

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[tirwin1]

Keep voting for democrats oakland!

 

[Deplorable Me]

 

[Jsmegs77]

I’m not sure what sort of plumbers they’re hiring out in Oakland, but when I was growing up blue collar trades were the ones you had to watch out for if you stole from them. I’ve seen more than a few guys on sites who looked like they’d have no problem whipping a 4’ pipe wrench like it was a wiffle ball bat.

When I was actually working in HVAC on eastern LI, we had one job site get hit repeatedly stealing copper pipe and the electricians wiring supplies. We started trucking in all the piping, and taking the remnants offsite. The electricians had other ideas. They hung around the job site after quitting time and caught a pair of scruffy tweakers sneaking into the unfinished and open house not 30 minutes after the last contractor van left. Rumor has it that the electricians beat the ever loving shit out of the pair before hog tying them with scrap wire and tossing them into a partially filled roll off the landscapers had on-site. Apparently there was a follow up threat to dump them in the bay similarly restrained, if they were seen in the area again. Now, this was in Bridgehampton in the early 2000’s, and as one of the electricians was a cop’s kid I don’t think this story got any legs. Only reason I heard it is being on the same job site with the same crew for an entire summer.

 

[Saltwater60]

I’ll never forget 30 years ago my dad went to help a friend of ours in Buffalo because his main drain line was plugged. The girl in the upstairs apartment was a hooker. Like a light hooker and he had to push past her pimps to get rent money. So they were in the basement trying to get the drain line unplugged with tampons and condoms floating by but failed to get it. They called a plumber and we’re surprised when the lady called the next morning asking why the drain wasn’t fixed. He called the plumber and he said he sent a guy out there but won’t be coming back because the plumber was snaking the drain in front and their was a gun fight across the street. He hightailed it out of there and left all the equipment afraid for his life.

 

[repete]

"Plumbers in Oakland have been robbed so often they are holding their own active shooter training"​

Thats what they get for letting people see all that crack!

 

[repete]

I’m not sure what sort of plumbers they’re hiring out in Oakland, but when I was growing up blue collar trades were the ones you had to watch out for if you stole from them. I’ve seen more than a few guys on sites who looked like they’d have no problem whipping a 4’ pipe wrench like it was a wiffle ball bat.

When I was actually working in HVAC on eastern LI, we had one job site get hit repeatedly stealing copper pipe and the electricians wiring supplies. We started trucking in all the piping, and taking the remnants offsite. The electricians had other ideas. They hung around the job site after quitting time and caught a pair of scruffy tweakers sneaking into the unfinished and open house not 30 minutes after the last contractor van left. Rumor has it that the electricians beat the ever loving shit out of the pair before hog tying them with scrap wire and tossing them into a partially filled roll off the landscapers had on-site. Apparently there was a follow up threat to dump them in the bay similarly restrained, if they were seen in the area again. Now, this was in Bridgehampton in the early 2000’s, and as one of the electricians was a cop’s kid I don’t think this story got any legs. Only reason I heard it is being on the same job site with the same crew for an entire summer.

I can believe that. I worked for a trucking company in the 70's and was there one night when the guys caught a guy stealing tools. The mechanics just quietly closed and locked the doors and started looking, when the crook came around the corner of a trailer one of the guys clocked him HARD, don't know when he woke up but I do know where. He was stuffed into a used grease barrel and rolled out back. He must've learned his lesson cause he never came back and the stealing stopped.

 

[Michael]

I would think if they've been robbed that many times, it time to be plumbers somewhere else. Let them sit it out with no water and backed up sewage.