Posted 1 year ago
fifties50s
(253 items)
second one, this one is a bit different but still heavy
original microphones stand are really hard to find, most of them were scrapped for metal, we got a lot of scrappers here in Belgium, each day you'll hear a truck driving in streets asking for metal ( and most of them steals copper cables on trains lines )
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Sounds like a good way to get electrocuted, we have copper thieves here too.
Yes sometimes those things happened, in november a guy tried to steal train lines but forgot to check if the line was abandoned, as it was till operated the guy was shocked and died directly of the high voltage...
sometimes it's more funnier, They tried to steal some barriers in an abandoned factory, and two minutes later they understood that it was the training ground of the police as they were surounded by a dozen of policemen....
I bet they weren't able to talk there way out of that one, that's funny.