Rejected petition A way to STOP METAL THEFT

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The amount of theft of metal items like manhole covers, lead roofing, copper cabling, etc., is getting ridiculous and dangerous in the case of manhole covers.
If we just passed a law that made it impossible for "scrap" metal to be sold to dealers unless they had an identity document/utitlities bill,etc., that supported their postcode this would enable all sales to be traced to the sellers.
I believe this would make it very much more difficult for stolen scrap to be sold and hence reduce the problem dramatically overnight. Simples!

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Date submitted 4 August 2011
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