0:00 do you think those like those drug dealers that failed chemistry in high school and they're making they're cooking the crack up or whatever and they're like man I think I really like science you know if I were to redo it all I think I'd be really good at it [Music] Ryan you might be interested in this one cool there's a Philadelphia towing company that has been charged in a multi multi-million dollar catalytic converter theft range so they tow cars and they just secretly smart basically that's why you should buy electric cars they don't have this charger now uh this past week is against 11 people and a Philadelphia towing company and a multi-million dollar catalytic converter death ring wow basically saying that the TDI Towing
0:53 in Philadelphia's Port Richmond Section bought 8.2 million dollars worth of catalytic converters over the last three years wow that's the real crime if the crime is being the person that buys them really yeah I totally agree with what you're saying yeah yeah but it is sending out his guys to go steal him and stuff but that's also bad but not as bad as buying them buy them and then resells all the so if he hires them to steal it why does he have to buy it from the guys that are stealing it because he's the middleman because that's how they make the money too because like that's their incentive to go steal it but why don't they just pay um to go steal it instead of just buying it after you pay him to go steal it I'm confused check this out right oh okay okay he steals it yeah and then he charges me extra for stealing it why am
1:46 I charging you extra why that's what I'm saying why don't I just pay you one time India you already paid him he's your employee yeah yeah so he just gives it for free to you yeah that's what I'm saying that is what they're doing no but then that sounded like to me he was he was I was paying him to go steal it and then after he brought it he's selling it to me I think it's in addition to that so that he's got a people stealing it but they also fence it yeah he's gonna go get it you're gonna give him money okay then he works for me flat rate and then use yourself that's what he said so you can sell it back to the owner of the car you know it's just that's that's that's what exactly double the price so basically um they're they're taking yes their employees in in whatever way that you see fit uh and they're just stealing a bunch of ████ catalytic converters they're giving it to this you know this
2:36 towing company and whatnot that's also reselling you know stripping it for parts and taking the actual you know really really expensive because that's the harder thing to find it's harder to find somebody to fence your uh converter that you stole really that's why they go so far they'll be someone in Atlanta that's buying the one stolen in La it's like crazy whoa yeah that's how they get away with it yeah prosecutors are saying that this guy Michael Williams who runs TDI Towing uh is the Kingpin he's got six employees many of whom are related to him oh they're also charged family business investigators say these suspects bought the converters which were brought to TDI Towing all hours of the night but they're also stealing them see now I understand the difference he has employees stealing and bringing it but there's not enough enough so he's taking it from free agents too that are selling it to all yes oh wow he takes
3:28 all cameras he's a fence yeah investigative around the business yeah yeah investigators say the company bought an average of 175 converters per week per week of 300 each and we're reselling the precious metals which are rhodium Platinum the Palladium also he wasn't reselling the converters no he was just stripping it that's like a meth head yeah that game will get you caught reselling the converter you have to just take the metal out really and he added the the value of these Metals increased dramatically during the pandemic because of Supply chains Yeah so basically the staff room was like really optimized during the supply chain crisis uh of all these someone was buying Black Market rhodium wait a minute or maybe this this guy this guy have a science background or something why does he know this stuff you know like how do you get
4:18 these metals from color converter you know just it's crazy a lot of catalytic converters get stolen because it's there's a lot of expensive stuff and it's easy to just take off yeah yeah but it's also crazy that like criminals they're like they failed chemistry but they're also making drugs and cooking them in Colombia I know isn't that crazy like people that like you would think did really poorly in school but they're actually very good at running a lot nation's good well there's also a difference between like being really good at math or being just really good at the quadratic equation that's true you know what I mean like versus like which is the drug dealer drug dealers really good at one thing but it doesn't mean they're like a chemist arithmetic yeah do you think those like those drug dealers that failed chemistry in high school they're making they're cooking the crack up or whatever and they're like man I think I
5:09 really like science you know if I were to redo it all I think I'd be really good at it I can't check the salaries of scientists okay I'm gonna still do the strong thing it's always crazy though when something's like a a whole racket you know like a theft Ring versus like you know because we we oftentimes think or at least I oftentimes think of like a crime in maybe one dimension just committing Like A to B as a crime versus like thinking about the entire industry of it and like figuring out how to like think about the system beat the system with these loopholes get different people in different parts in order to cover certain tracks you know what I'm saying like you got to be still skilled to know how to like run that entire ring or be considered a Kingpin of something you know that's why they're trying to catch all the of those guys it's just
5:59 like with pawn shops when the pawn shops can't accept stolen cameras so now you that's like how they helped with theft is like you just can't get rid of it you can't offload it but then now it's like people are traveling so far to like like there was like these huge rings that happened in like the middle of Texas where like from all the surrounding states they were just truck in all the catalytic converters and this one place would just take them because they also know the one guy that will accept the precious metals because that's also not everybody because some people are like they don't want to take the risk right yeah wow so now there's gonna be a homeless guy just on his bicycle with a catalytic converter over his shoulder just going all over town like no one wants to buy this yeah I'm gonna stick to collecting cans he got no buyers bro that's why the only thing the only thing you can do is either take out your cat converter or lower your car
6:49 by the way we would discuss the story maybe we should play the background music from uh It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia we'll never read a Philadelphia Story I always have the music anytime they're doing something degenerate stealing catalytic converters yeah we can play music for like maybe five seconds at a time before we get copyright issues though oh oh yeah oh it's five seconds now it used to be seven seconds right unless it's a Teresa Tang Song so they're okay with it people like this doesn't have to be monetized we're talking Teresa tank you know what Teresa no I don't know doesn't need you what she's like an old school singer no oh ████ I thought you would know oh oh I didn't know her English name oh
7:39 what's the what's the Chinese name of course I know her but then I pronounce it right oh no there is a tank that's her English name but I I never knew her English name you know wow until now yeah we played her music for our Mexican friend oh and he got like pretty horny I think oh really he said she was he said she was very pretty wait a minute was he listening to her music or is her picture and reading the English translations see there's no way I can tell anymore they're too many senses that's being stimulated there which one it is he was so turned on I think yeah oh okay it's crazy though that when when certain Metals rise in price those things just get stolen more like copper yeah when copper went up all the wiring was being stripped for every building
8:30 whoa yeah like new construction oh all these methods were jumping in and just and then when wood went up they started stealing whole giant like train loads of wood from The Yards yeah oh you know who I saw ████ stealing ████ the other day but this truck so like I live in Vegas yeah I live in Vegas I could come out here to shoot but in Vegas you know it's like a rapidly developing Place yeah so they're always building new ████ there's this park that's being built and so while they're building they just kind of fence off like a bunch of plants I saw a truck roll up and the people just started carrying it stealing the plants wow and just throw in the back of the pickup truck plants are expensive yeah plants are expensive man yeah especially they're like hundreds of dollars per per treat yeah no palm trees yeah
9:22 grown palm trees palm trees baby that could be like 20 grand for the grown ones yeah 20. look at it like man I can't buy some more crypto with that imagine the palm tree theft ring be tough you better steal it before it's planted yeah no you guys still after they're planted what just to make him go what I'm like unless you're on an excavator I got little palm trees growing all the time if you want it oh you got little palm trees growing all the time what does that even mean because I have a big palm tree that dispenses seeds and then there's little ones that Sprout we don't want to do that much work man we just want to steal them I just put it in a pot for you and you can grow it apologies for you dude that's so much water for like years it's 20 G's after
10:12 it's like this big yeah you know what was getting stolen live in a rainy Place one of the hottest items I was getting stolen in Hollywood was uh the headlights and I think the grill of the G wagon the Top Model oh yeah because that's all you needed to put on your lower class G model to make it look like the best model so people were just taking those parts isn't that odd it's kind of smart very smart plus you're luck looking at the Richer person than you like you don't ████ need this yeah yeah yeah that's how you just that's already a nice car stealing something to put on another nice I know which is like ironic right it's like you can afford a nice car still but no I miss stealing sometimes wait wait wait wait let's do this off record look people don't want to say it but stealing is a lot of fun
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