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September 7, 2012 at 11:29 am
This seems to happen in fits and starts around the country depending on what China is paying for copper. A couple years ago there was a wave of it in the news here climaxed by one bum who was electrocuted trying to get wire out of a high voltage junction. It stops when the local police and federales go to the junk yard owners and tell them stop buying obviously stolen copper from the bums or we’re coming for you by requiring the owners to take valid credentials on all their buys. It’s a reflection on the burned through social floor in this country. When it was happening here one thing I noticed in Pasadena is that the scavengers were going after the walk signal switches on the traffic lights. They were all stolen, taken apart or attacked in some way. Now they’re mostly all armored or made of plastic.
September 7, 2012 at 6:39 pm
While I was still in Wilmington and attending a Methodist church, my pastor, being a Methodist, rode a circuit. His other church was a beautiful old stone pile in the north end of the city.
The gutters and downspouts were copper. One night shortly after the Bush bubble burst, two homeless guys made off with the copper.