150 pounds of ……nothing.
Go figure.
Looks like the economy is worse than the mainstream media is reporting.
Because someone intends to start an uncontrollable fire...?
Why? Maybe the gangsta’s think they look cool in their man-cave. It could be as simple as that.
Article suggests the 150lb hydrant is worth about $6 bucks scrap. I don’t know how much meth that would buy.
“Din know nuffins.”
maybe they should be asking the scrap yards if they have bought any fire hydrants lately
appears the scrap yard should have called the authorities to begin with
Cast iron $176 /ton
Brass $1.05 /Lb
The illegal armies imported by today’s Obama-Biden administration need to use the connected water pipes as rocket tubes for their next 8000 missile bombardment.
These fire hydrant tops make perfect rocket nose cones.
Who is buying this scrap metal?
My question is why these thieves weren’t shot.
Sounds like its just straight-up vandalism.
There are people with no investment or stake in society, simply happy to see things destroyed.
We are rapidly becoming South Africa.
The South Africans at least could flee to America.
Now a lot of them are going back because it is just as bad here.
It's our turn now. Example: Newly created EV charging stations have a problem with copper thieves. I doubt the thieves are from the ghetto. They don't have that type of energy or creativity.
Where will my dog go?
I was thinking if you stole the hydrant there would be water leaking all over the place.
I mean all you need is the right tool to turn the hydrant on — so if you removed the entire thing wouldn’t there be water leaking???
“The crooks are literally ripping the hydrants off the street”
idiots: not “literally ripping” them off the street, but literally UNBOLTING them!
you can see from the pics that they’ve actually left behind the bolts after they’ve unscrewed them ...
What a lousy time wasting site.
You have to wade through all that mess to see the one sentence.
If you go to the street view for 82nd Street and Hooper Avenue, the oil stains along the curb, including along the red curb for the fire hydrant, point to a lot of cars parking overnight.
I'd suspect there are an inordinate number of illegals living in the neighborhood, further driving up the need for parking, and not just because the houses have bars on the windows but because it's L.A.
It doesn’t have to be profitable. They do it just to do it, because they have no respect for property or other people.
In my own neighborhood, I noticed those buttons you push to make the traffic light say “walk” were being vandalized and made unpushable. This was on busy intersections, where there is no way you can cross without the “walk” sign; you’d be taking your life in your hands. I often had to cross three streets just to get across one street. The city would fix the buttons only to have them vandalized again. Why would the vandals do it? How does it benefit them? It doesn’t have to benefit them. They’re just a-holes, savages, jerks.