OREGON OBSERVATIONS 26 MAY 2022 Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By admin Re: Are you tired of hearing what a bum-filled center for thievery Portland’s become? As usual, Portland is a microcosm of what’s going on across the country. Here’s another stat to throw on the growing pile of negatives – catalytic converter theft is up 270% – in excess of 4,900 last year alone. Nationally, State Farm saw claims for catalytic converter thefts jump from $4.6 million to $62.6 million from 2019 and 2021. Reminds me of when I worked at a steel recycler. This was years before Oregon changed the sale documentation required during a converter sale, but anybody with even a smidgen of common sense could figure out that the bedraggled bum that just wheeled up to the non-ferrous dock, with a sawed-off catalytic converter in his bicycle basket, didn’t get it from a car he owned. 4
