On Sun, 4 May 2008 09:58:23 -0700 (PDT), ransley
wrote:

In Chicago people are stripping
telephone lines in alleys, pulling wire and pipe out of new
construction, stealing copper gutters and downspouts.

In Las Vegas they do the same. Here, one section of Freeway is without
lights. They park behind the sound barrier walls and pull wire from
the freeway lights. They caught some people and promptly put them in
prisonl after a speedy fair trial.

Heard one story where a crook electrician: STUBBED short wires to look
like outlet boxes had wires in them. The house had to be wired....)