these kind of idiots are pulling this crap in the Youngstown OH area-going into abandoned steel mills and trying to steal the copper wiring-in a number of cases the power is still on ZAP-there goes another fried criminal. Oh well-a little chlorine in the gene pool.
One of my relatives lives right near Youngstown. One of the jobs he does is close up foreclosures in Youngstown. He told me that some of the houses have been stripped clean of their copper and siding.