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gaytee t1_isxnfxn wrote

Just blows my mind that we haven’t just made buying used cats illegal. This is clearly a problem for a ton of citizens and only benefits criminals and weird car parts recycling shops. If buying and selling used/stolen cats is THIS lucrative, it needs to be stopped with legislation that locks people up. If we do, in 10 years it’ll sound real stupid to be the guy whose doing 15-25 years for a stolen cat but that’s what it’s gonna take.

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sciencesold t1_isycxyh wrote

Should be limited to like 1 every month or two, just so it's not worth it to steal them, but then when the cat in my old ass car goes out, I can still sell it to reduce my total cost for the new one.

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gaytee t1_isz0mho wrote

The sale of old ones should be baked into the cost of new ones.

Anyone purchasing a cat by itself is likely replacing a broken or stolen one, we’re doing nothing to the criminals and the citizens are left footing the bill for repair.

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EthanSayfo t1_isydnlf wrote

I'm sure there's no legislators in Baltimore and Maryland skimming off of illegal business operations they intentionally discourage the active policing of.

I mean, nothing even remotely like this has ever happened in Baltimore or the state before.

Right?

*groan*

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BlarghMachine t1_isz1jhr wrote

Besides smaller shops taking what they can get and it being hard to enforce - they melt them down and extract the valuable metal themselves now and sell that straight up. It’s not going to go away as a crime, unfortunately.

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gaytee t1_it0vlrs wrote

Who are they selling the valuable metals to? That’s my point, that transaction shouldn’t exist, if we remove it, we remove stolen cats.

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