And lo on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:54:33 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

>>>>  Was it pure gas or did it have an electric hob?
>>>
>>> Nope, just gas.
>>>
>>> [Did have an electric timer and temperature meter - but both of these  
>>> elements were Fraggle-rocked.]
>>  Ah yep those don't count, if it did have an electric hob it'd be  
>> classified as WEEE and they would have had to take it away with them in  
>> exchange for the new one.
>
> Mmm, interesting. So it has to be more than 7% electronic before it's  
> WEEE?

IIRC it's more to do with main functionality, if its main function (or one  
of them) is electrical/electronic then it's WEEE.

>>> Er... a *sink* needs dismantling?? It's a sheet of metal! o_O
>>  Not enough metal perhaps to be worth 'stealing'
>
> Well whatever. It's light, it's small enough for one person to carry,  
> you wouldn't need to plan ahead at all.

Easy if you want to sell it as a sink, but it's not small enough to be  
easily melted down and sold as anonymous scrap

> I would have thought it would be quite easy to remove. (They stole  
> somebody's ROOF for goodness sake! How much forward planning would that  
> require?)

A ladder and some tools. We've had the lead flashing nicked off four units  
overnight and another business some ingots, but none of their machinery or  
other items such as power tools etc.

-- 
Phil Cook

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