Not just Los Angeles, but St. Paul, Minneapolis, EV chargers and solar panels are ripe targets as well.
“Green energy meets third-world reality.”
I bet there’s a lot of copper in those road-side EV charging stations the Dims want to force everyone to depend on.
It’s Mexicans, blacks fear electricity.
They have stolen the copper out of the street lights here 5 or 6 times in the last couple years, they just replaced it all again yesterday, about a half mile. My guess is it will be stolen again within 3-4 months.
Turning? I think that’s already been done.
Just today my wife said sometime she’d like to go see the Statue of Liberty, but we both agreed it’s not worth risking going to NYC.
As is so often the case nowadays, every time they open their mouths, aging Boomer "conservative" political commentators reveal that they've lost the plot. They are forever confusing cause and effect.
They are lopping the hook-up cables off of EV chargers. They tried to make it problematic for scrapyards to buy the stolen copper, but that seems to have been ineffective. Just start shooting them. After a few, the word will get out.
I’m OK with the thieves’s capitalistic nature.
So here is the solution: If you are a junk dealer you do not accept copper or other building materials from anyone who can’t prove chain of custody. Hold the junk dealers responsible for repairs. That would stop this.
Next up is our AC units sitting outside beside the house.
Funny how an unchecked invasion of Third World denizens quickly turns the country third world.
And when they’ve stolen all they can they’ll move to the suburbs. Civil War II will be cities against suburbs, With the primary effort being To keep them from escaping the cities
I gotta wonder how many of these idiot thieves are thinking the price of copper is $3.85-ish per OUNCE... but that’s the price per POUND. You gotta steal a LOT of copper to get anywhere with that.
This thread has a lot of brazen comments.
I may have to steel myself before reading further.
Sounds like they are really missing “home.”
By the time Joe Pedo is thrown out of office, “American” tourists won’t need to go to Mexico anymore for their vacations. Mexico is coming here.
There was a time when you could lock up your house and be gone for months. Now if you do for just a few days you might come home to see vandals and copper thieves have torn it to pieces.
I bought a vandalized house cheap back in 1989. I figured I would have it livable in six months. it took FIVE YEARS! as I and my wife did all the work ourselves.
But when it was done we had a paid off house and 15 acres!
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I worked 31 years in a power plant. One of the items we checked on our rounds was the copper grounding cables. We caught one man cutting up some of it and chased him off. That copper ground field was later covered by a cooling lake.
When building the plant, it was said the workers could double their salary by stealing copper. Often we would see, on lunch break, a roll of copper slowly disappearing down a manhole where someone was taking their lunch break and cutting copper to fit their lunch pail at the same time.