Pennies are copper too, aren’t they?
Recent thefts of copper wiring from city streetlights makes me wonder…to what lengths will people go? Couldn’t they melt down a penny, even though the copper is mostly in the plating? Why in the north primarily, and what’s up with copper?
Reminds me of unusual thefts in Russia, when I was living there. Public toilets (and there weren’t that many of them) would often be “robbed” of the seat. Most restrooms were toilet-seat-less. I can’t imagine walking off with a (dirty) toilet seat, but people did.
Maybe the city of Sacramento should put lock-boxes on the street lights? If they still get ripped off, it might be a city problem, i.e. an employee’s making a buck on the city dime.
Yeah - some people have been breaking into McClellan Park and stripping the copper from the old warehouses. Unfortunately, some of the buildings still have power and there have been some fried copper strippers have been found. Crazy…
Last summer someone took old copper piping from a building in Old Sacramento. Unfortunately the pipes were still functional, and the next morning the business owner of the small toy store underneath the pipes found his entire store flooded and his inventory destroyed.