200 plus TONS of road salt stolen

[Mari333]

Updated: Thursday, 09 Jul 2009, 2:51 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 09 Jul 2009, 2:51 PM EDT

SALEM TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The Washtenaw County sheriff's department wants to know who made off with more than 200 tons of road salt.


http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/se_mich/200_plus_tons_of_road_salt_stolen


how could someone not see this? what would someone actually use this for?

[gkhouston]

1. mmm... ice cream... lots of homemade ice cream.... n/t

[Oceansaway]

2. road salt was hard to comeby here

in illinois last year....and its price doubled from 1

year to the next....

[MercutioATC]

3. Resale to private snow removal companies.

I know somebody here in Ohio that does constriction in the summer and snow removal in the winter. Although we sit on top of a huge salt mine, rock salt prices nearly doubled last year.

[imdjh]

4. I'm not all that surprised.

I have no idea how large 200 tons of road salt is, but I am often surprised when I see gigantic pieces of road and earth moving equipment which appear to be abandoned and grown over in remote places. How can a piece of equipment that only the state or a state contractor would own sit idle for so long that the jungle would be reclaiming it. Granted, the jungle is aggressive, but it still takes a while to wrap itself around something that big.

[Journeyman]

5. What would they use it for? Why, very gritty margaritas, of course! . . .

Actually, I suspect whoever stole expects to sell it to a sleazy municipal buyer or a private business, for them to use on roads, parking lots and driveways. Someone could save a considerable sum if they bought "hot" salt for their roads, and the thief would make quite a haul for their haul as well.

[Wickerman]

6. Lots and lots of municipalities went without salt over the last two years

as demand increased due to harsher winters. Supply was lower and prices sky-rocketed. Its not a stretch that someone stole it to sell to the equally unscrupulous. My question is how the hell do you steal that much without someone in the County system knowing?