Submitted by dropkickninja t3_ypswbw in vermont
yoeddyVT t1_ivl0eaq wrote
They need to also find and prosecute the salvage yard that is paying these guys cash for obviously stolen cats.
Thick_Piece t1_ivl27qx wrote
These things are worth so much that they could have changed hands multiple times…
Salty_Charlemagne t1_ivlliqc wrote
Why are they so valuable? Do they have some other use besides for cars? Or is it just an expensive easily stealable car part that can be grafted onto other stolen (?) cars?
Ok-Dirt7287 t1_ivlodqa wrote
They have rare earth metals and platinum. Here in Colorado we are #1 or 2 for stolen cats. So much so they say just let them take it because people are getting killed. We just passed a law that any scrapper who receives a cat has to report the id number within 24 hours or they are breaking the law. It's a shame it's happening in VT . I'm relocating from Colorado
Vermonter_Here t1_ivm62bg wrote
> people are getting killed
...
> an ill-gotten catalytic converter can “typically” fetch between $50 and $250 when sold to an unscrupulous recycling facility
https://ktla.com/news/catalytic-converter-thefts-which-vehicles-are-targeted-the-most/
Good god.
YPG-Got-Raqqa t1_ivopoxi wrote
I run one of the largest salvage yard in the state and process cats. They contain platinum, palladium and rhodium. When the fuel in your engine burns it has to combine with oxygen. Oxygen naturally comes as O2 with two of them bonded together. Inside the cat there are tiny spikes of these metals that cause the O2 to break in two.
When the oxygen is floating around as single atoms it causes the combustion temperature to drop substantially causing more complete burning of the exhaust products and a cleaner exhaust.
dropkickninja OP t1_ivl2o0w wrote
if the internet hates anything its cat stealers and their enablers
yoeddyVT t1_ivl6j6q wrote
Ha! That's a nasty documentary
Unique-Public-8594 t1_ivortjz wrote
Sounds like a purr fect documentary, fur real.
ANTI-PUGSLY t1_ivm4g4d wrote
We actually replaced ours for maintenance reasons recently and recycled the old cat legitimately. Bolduc outside Montpelier did things by the book and requested a lot of identification to process the transaction.
YPG-Got-Raqqa t1_ivore7p wrote
Plenty of buyers without yards that are just breaking the cats open and selling the foils/mesh to the refiners.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments