So I was away on vacation for a few days this past weekend, and when I got back in and went to my office on Tuesday morning, I made a startling discovery. Someone has stolen the twenty foot flagpole standing in front of my office! It appears that whichever creative blackhatter did it took some sort of saw and just cut it off right at the base (well, about two inches above the ground).
I was completely perplexed about this at first as I had no idea why anyone would want to steal a flagpole (especially if they cut it so that it couldn't be used again). I figured it was some local kid that was playing a prank, but after discussing it with a few people, we figured it out - the flagpole was made of aluminum which is worth a pretty penny nowadays. I didn't report it to the police because the headache of dealing with that would have been more trouble than it was worth, but I wouldn't be surprised if other offices in my area had run into the same problem.
I just checked and scrap aluminum seems to run around $.80/lb. I don't know how much a twenty foot pole weighs, but I'm sure it's a decent amount. If these guys are stealing enough poles, they could perhaps be making as much money as HaRRo.
So on to the method:
1) Find an area (your niche) with plenty of business that have flagpoles out front. Ones with car dealerships who have those sixty or seventy foot poles are the most desirable ones.
2) Stake out the area to find when it is least populated (usually late at night and on the weekends)
3) Come through in the middle of the night with a big pickup truck, a cordless saw (or whatever you need to cut through aluminum poles), and a couple of buddies to help you carry the poles to the aforementioned pickup
4) Take your poles to a local scrap yard. Sort of like using CPARedirector to cover your tracks, make sure you have a nice, whitehat story to explain where all of these poles are coming from. It also helps if the scrap yard allows incentivized scrap metal, as they'll be less curious as to why you're brining half a ton of cut up flagpoles.
5) Once you're niche has become exhaused, it's time to go back to step one and start over. I'm sure that this method could be applied to plenty of other verticals.
No thanks are needed for this method - all I'm asking is that whichever one of you hesited my flagpole to please return it. I'm sorry for saturating your method.
(Just incase someone can't pick up on my humor, I am by no means encouraging *anyone* to commit theft of any sorts and actually do this or anything else illegal. While I'm completely serious and mad about my flagpole, I am just joking about the "method".)
I was completely perplexed about this at first as I had no idea why anyone would want to steal a flagpole (especially if they cut it so that it couldn't be used again). I figured it was some local kid that was playing a prank, but after discussing it with a few people, we figured it out - the flagpole was made of aluminum which is worth a pretty penny nowadays. I didn't report it to the police because the headache of dealing with that would have been more trouble than it was worth, but I wouldn't be surprised if other offices in my area had run into the same problem.
I just checked and scrap aluminum seems to run around $.80/lb. I don't know how much a twenty foot pole weighs, but I'm sure it's a decent amount. If these guys are stealing enough poles, they could perhaps be making as much money as HaRRo.
So on to the method:
1) Find an area (your niche) with plenty of business that have flagpoles out front. Ones with car dealerships who have those sixty or seventy foot poles are the most desirable ones.
2) Stake out the area to find when it is least populated (usually late at night and on the weekends)
3) Come through in the middle of the night with a big pickup truck, a cordless saw (or whatever you need to cut through aluminum poles), and a couple of buddies to help you carry the poles to the aforementioned pickup
4) Take your poles to a local scrap yard. Sort of like using CPARedirector to cover your tracks, make sure you have a nice, whitehat story to explain where all of these poles are coming from. It also helps if the scrap yard allows incentivized scrap metal, as they'll be less curious as to why you're brining half a ton of cut up flagpoles.
5) Once you're niche has become exhaused, it's time to go back to step one and start over. I'm sure that this method could be applied to plenty of other verticals.
No thanks are needed for this method - all I'm asking is that whichever one of you hesited my flagpole to please return it. I'm sorry for saturating your method.
(Just incase someone can't pick up on my humor, I am by no means encouraging *anyone* to commit theft of any sorts and actually do this or anything else illegal. While I'm completely serious and mad about my flagpole, I am just joking about the "method".)
