It doesn't look like it will get better anytime soon. With the US dollar very weak and China and India needing more and more raw materials metal prices will probably remain high. And metal thefts will continue.

A high school football game in Canon City had to be cancelled because someone stole the wiring for the football field lights. A bold group around Colorado Springs has been using white trucks (to look like utility workers) to steal street light wiring in broad daylight. Manhole covers and aluminum park benches are also being stolen.

People are stealing catalytic converters (for the platinum, palladium and rhodium - worth about $100 total) off parked vehicles. Back home in GA a church had the catalytic converters stolen from their bus and van.

The scrap yards bear part of the blame for the rash of metal thefts. It should look mighty suspicious when a couple of crackheads show up wanting to sell a some park benches, a street light and several catalytic converters but they usually buy the stuff, no questions asked.

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