Reply #5: Rough economic times, high prices for scrap copper

[MadHound]

Voila, you've got people going out and ripping off copper wherever they can. AC units, stripping houses and buildings, pulling out pipes, on and on it goes. I read somewhere a few months back about somebody who was electrocuted trying to rip off copper electrical lines while they were still live and on the pole.

It's another sad sign of the desperate economic times we're in.