The theft of catalysts is booming in the USA. The reason is valuable precious metals. But when a thief tampered with a Mercedes, it ends tragically for him.
Vancouver (Washington) – Auto catalytic converters are in great demand. More and more thieves are stealing these from vehicles and reselling them on the black market. The reason is the metals it contains, such as platinum, palladium or rhodium. These are extremely valuable, so a gram of platinum currently costs 33 euros, a gram of palladium already twice as much and buyers even have to pay around 680 euros for one gram of rhodium. But the greed for it has now cost a thief his life.
A young man is said to have broken into the garage area in the middle of the night to steal a catalytic converter from a silver Mercedes. It was parked in a parking lot in front of it, a surveillance camera recorded everything. But at the moment when the thief starts tampering with the car and tries to lift it with the jack, the latter falls over and the car falls on the thief, who is tragically crushed.
Workshop owner Ahmed also reports that this is not the first time such theft has occurred in the area. The resident who found the car thief also had several catalytic converters stolen from his property in the past. That’s why he actually hoped to catch the thief in the act. You can read the full story at 24auto.de. * 24auto.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
