3 men arrested for using saw to cut down, steal traffic lights from poles, deputies say

CBS 11 News ^ | September 27, 2022 | Emily Van de Riet

[al baby]

We must outlaw saw violence

[dfwgator]

“I Like Traffic Lights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRyH6fkee0

[Joe 6-pack]

Probably had the seeds planted in their heads as children...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Why didn’t they arrest the commie bastards that cut down all the American statues and memorials? Screw the red lights.

[FoxInSocks]

Makes me think of Cool Hand Luke.

[apocalypto]

WHY?

[KarlInOhio]

Stick to parking meters.

[Red Badger]

[SouthernClaire]

They’re valued at 5K each, but the market would seem to be extremely limited.

[lee martell]

Apparently, such traffic lights can be worth about $5K each.
Find out who’s paying for them.

Meanwhile, this sounds like a script from a Cheech & Chong movie. The guilty parties are three young fellows all about age 27. They don’t necessarily LOOK like Meth addicts, but you never know.

[Red Badger]

Hernando County is located on Florida’s gulf coast, about 50 miles north of Tampa.

If they had waited a day or two they wouldn't have needed to use a saw ..................

[decal]

And none of them are named Damber...

[Red Badger]

I looked. I didn't need to...................

[nomorelurker]

“Makes me think of Cool Hand Luke.”

Strother Martin: “Destruction of Government Property, hell we don’t get many of those”
My first thought as well along with the opening pipe cutter scene.

[moovova]

It’s easy to run a light...but hard to run with several.

[lee martell]

Darrell, Darrell & little Bro’ Darrell.

[Red Badger]

I remember them.........................

[SamAdams76]

Surprisingly this is more common than you think.

I knew somebody who apparently had a hobby of stealing road signs, street signs, even license plates. He then would nail them up in his garage.

So in his garage, you would see those blue and red interstate signs for I95, I40, I295, etc. License plates from all the different states. Street signs for Broadway, Main Street, Maple Street, etc. Stop signs, one way signs, deer crossing signs, you name it, he had it.

I figure him to be the type to go out in the middle of the night with a screwdriver and a ladder and "go shopping." Or maybe he just got them on eBay. Who knows.

[Gen.Blather]

A couple of years ago in Florida, some kids stole a stop sign from an intersection to use as a decoration in their dorm room. A car drove through the intersection without stopping and killed someone in another car that had stopped and then proceeded. The kids all went to prison for (I think third degree) murder.