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Subscriber only A Coast man, short on cash, cut more than 2m of copper piping from the ceiling of a Coast shopping centre carpark before making a run for it on Christmas Day. Ruben Peters told police he was short on money and went to a Eumundi shopping centre along Memorial Drive on December 25 last year to steal copper piping that he could later sell. Police prosecutor Brendan Newman said a shop owner was doing some work in his store when he heard some noises coming from the underground carpark. The man saw Peters standing up against the wall next to his black Ford hatchback.