I seen a similar story about this already 3 months ago that it would take 3 months to get tthe lights back on! WOW
welded shut panels uhmm what about maintenance? In a previous story someone had suggested panel up high whre if anyone tried to access the panel would be noticed or need commercial size ladders! anyways well see the story 3 months from now!

Why don’t they hire the thieves to put the wires back in? It apparently only took 1 night to cut them down.

Use aluminum wire. Do I have to think of everything?

Residents: take a gun safety class. Go to a range and practice. state and local governments will soon face bankruptcy and the thugs and thieves will run riot, w What happens when what’s left of the police departments (after they find the government can’t pay their salaries and pensions) will be even more stressed than now. Nothing could help more than for some of the copper thieves and their brethren to be shot dead, and the real victims let go. The solutions mentioned above are mere bandaids. We all know that most bandaids fall off before the wound heals.

I wonder where all their concern was when the wire was being stolen? How many saw the wire being stolen and could not be bothered by calling the police. If the criminals are caught will the jury convict them and demand they serve some serious time, or will they just slap them on the wrist and turn them loose to do it again?

2011: the year of copper theft

http://rhymeandreasonable.com/2011/08/23/bobbing-and-weaving-around-the-impact-of-globalization-on-income-and-employment/

Add a photo cell to each light and leave the power on,that would be the last time they cut into a 480 volt light. 6$ or less for the photo cell. couldnt use aluminum wire in existing pipe beacuse wire size would incress due to voltage drop
(if you were using # 8 copper and changed to aluminum you might need a#4)

Hey, there just coming to get copper wire that nobody else wants. Who cares if it’s illegal. They need this wire to feed their families, just give em a break, just like we do the illegals that come over the border. What’s the difference??

Better yet, capture a couple at gunpoint and string them up from the light pole.
Everybody will soon get the message.
No joke.

Return to Gas Lights using PVC piping. If they cut that and they are smoking then they’ll be incinerated. The gas mantle produces a very bright light and works even if the power goes out. Compressed Natural Gas is cheaper than other forms of energy.

Do the same thing the ghetto denizens do. When some jerk gets whacked the rest of the community gets real forgetful as in Sgt. Shultz in Hogan’s Hero’s…..I see nothing! Cops need witnesses or solid evidence to identify the culprit.

You are one dumb dude. Why would one use compressed natural gas in street lights? Piping gas to street lights would cost a fortune. Thieves get copper wire that no one else wants? We need it to get power to the street lamps—cannot figure that one out, heh?

Everything is going according to plan. Create chaos. Wait for the sheep to panic. Offer them a solution that will move your agenda forward. This is the beginning of the end. Incremental fascism is destroying our liberty. Pretty soon you will need a permit to breath.

The Globalists will not rest until we’re all living in unsafe neighborhoods, ravaged by poverty, fearful of crime and packed into slums. Have a look at ‘Prince’ Charles has to say:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/4535451/Slumdog-Millionaire-shanty-town-a-model-for-urban-planning-says-Prince-Charles.html

Betcha they’re still in the dark!

Why no “News” about which groups are behind this?

Just when I was starting to get really aggravated with
bureaucratic public sector incompetency, this Marshall Law guy
has to come up with his “use aluminum wire. Do I
have to think of everything” comment.
Now I have to start all over from being calm and
in good humor.
And another thing. The crime of copper wire should
be punished in proportion to all losses and foreseeable
damages, direct and indirect, for the loss of electric power.
If someone dies from lack of electric heat, the crime jumps
to negligent homicide, and all other damages and loses included.
Steal copper wire, possibly end up in prison for life plus 3 months,
not joking. Want to steal something costly, steal bureaucratic red tape.
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I feel badly for these people… but it’s North Highlands. I don’t think street lights are going to hinder the criminal element.

““It’s scary, because you lay in bed at night and you hear things,”
How pathetic…sheeple indeed. Of course in our city, we have few break-ins because its known for “geezers with guns”.

FYI, it’s “martial law” the gov’t is sticking us with, bit by gradual bit.
As far as the copper thefts, half the time it’s illegal immigrants, and we know where they mostly come from…

Ban by law, PRIVATE SECURITY and gated communities. You can damn well bet Queen Nancy Polosi`s lights would be working in less than three months. We need to have the politicals living in the same world as the rest of us.
When the politicals (and their famlies) are raped or dead at the hands of illegals. Or the bad guys come into their lives (at will). THINGS WILL CHANGE! We, the people, have the power but not the will. “When a poor man steals bread they cut off his hand. When a rich man steals a country they crown him king.”

everyone wants it repaired right away but some forget the money’s not there to keep feeding these illegal alien infrastructure bandits and they put em back up with no safeguards and they’re gone tomorrow and there goes another couple hundred thou more on it’s way to MEHICO MANG.

Treat them like the Taliban: Night vision. Snipers. Problem solved.

Great point. Everyone wants to complain, no one wants to lift a finger to help. If people got off their lazy arses and banded together, the problem would be resolved quickly.

How is that die-versity working for you, Sacramento?

Because they are the pets of the MSM.

And the other half are spo onies.

How is the Socialist State of California these days?

Californians!!! Arm yourselves now!!!

you’re right

The citizens shuld be getting angry, mad, hostile, at the left wing, Marxism loving morons in government. Deport all of the copper stealing thieves! Or better yet, folloow “G”‘s recommendation mentioned above.

The thieves are illegal aliens, this is what they do for money. Even here in rural OClorado we have the problem. If you leave your house un attended, such as evacuations during a wild fire, you come back to a house hwere the pipes and wiring have been ripped out. It is time to get ugly on these reconquista devils. They are systematically dismantling this country from the ground up.

You’re never getting your street lights back. Get used to it. We are facing economic collapse within 11 months, and California is broke. The ones who will survive are getting out of the cities now, and gathering the materials to survive in a Mad Max environment.

When the animals succeed in putting out the lights for good, scores will be settled.

Si, senor’ – it will.

In the meantime…. so we are ready:

Where are your women, gringo?

El Mega Macho’

This is difficiult & very expensive for municipalities–the people are NOT supposed to be ripping out infrastructure. The social fabric in America is torn to shreds, and Americans–and these copper thieves are Americans–are attacking infrastructure by stealing copper wiring & cables associated with electric service, and copper & brass pipes & expensive devices associated with water service.

In one incident in northern California, thieves turned off the water service to a number of occupied residences, then cut off & stole water service devices called backflow preventers. The residents were left without water service in their hoimes–no water at the sink, no bath, no shower, no toilet flushing.

Dorothy: You already have criminals in your neightborhood. They stole the copper!

Hey California, nice hope & change, huh? Want more of it? Continue to vote Democrat! Oh yeah, how’s that state budget working out for ya? LOL!

But the GUN Laws!!!!! Can’t do that.

Ha ha ha. You can have our “gringo” women if you want a whiney, b!tchy, lard@ss, whose dream in life is to be a man, but if I were you, I’d think twice about the unhappiness she will bring you.

Welcome to the new third world economy called California. The socialists have finally brought you their envisioned utopia – squalor for all. Of course the government socialists will be exempt from any hardship that will be expected of you. You get the government you deserve.

Don’t put up a border fence, it will get better – trust me. LOL!

Interesting… in my neighborhood I’d be upset if they “installed” street lights. Nothing like a pitch black, peaceful, safe neighborhood to star gaze in. Then again I live in Colorado.

Really, it will get better, the Dem’s are now arming the Mexican Drug Runners with AK’s and other assult rifles under the Fast & the Furious program. Glad they don’t support American citizens in being armed, right California? Don’t worry, for NOW it’s just the copper in your houses. (he, he, he)

Yes, you all will be EQUALLY poor, except for the Government Big Wigs. Got to love those BIG government programs and the expansion of the welfare state. Spread that wealth around baby! Unfortunately for you, you are running out of rich taxpayers to tax. What? They’re leaving the state? Why??? (Get a clue!)

Agreed. If you see someone stealing copper, shoot them and walk (or run) away. Only one or two copper thieves need to be dealt with, and you’ll see a dramatic drop in copper theft.

They’re tired of the “city officials” for not getting the lights back on? How about being tired of the copper thieves who don’t care one whit about who they hurt or kill as a result of their crimes? Perhaps the neighborhood should form a militia “watch.” I know it’s a novel idea in a socialist state like California where the government is supposed to take care of everything…

Any state that elects Pelosi and Boxer has been in the dark for a very long time.

It wouldn’t bother me in the least if they started taking this course of action.

REAP WHAT YOU’VE SEWN LIBERALS

Nail a few of the recycle yards that are buying this stuff. How stupid do you have to be to not know a manhole cover is stolen, for example

It is leftist and semi-Marxist and Third World style California, so what do you expect? There is no doubt that with the massive invasion of illegal Mexicans, black and Mexican youth gangs, the welfare set, the hordes of dopers and deadbeats, the Marxist style state government, and volumes of street crime, that California is going down the toilet and fast.

Guess who’s stealing the copper wires? The illegal mexicans. They don’t even have street lights in the neighborhoods in Mexico where they are from, and this is one reason why, the people would just steal them. How’s that Open Border working out for you all in California???

So we are paying taxes to support city/state/federal governments who won’t do anything effective to stop these and other thieves, yet in many places deny us the rights to own guns to protect ourselves? This is crazy!

We need armed patrols ready to shoot to kill thieves caught in the act and protection from idiotic ‘wrongful death’ lawsuits where the relatives weep and cry, “he was such a good boy!” Good boys don’t steal, and if they hadn’t been stealing they wouldn’t be dead. The vermin will either straighten up, fly right and live a decent, law-abiding life or eventually they will be flushed out of the gene pool.

The other thing is, who’s the fence for buying all this stuff? Don’t the cops even investigate to find out where the thieves are selling stolen copper/metals? If it’s a “legitimate” recycling shop, it should be investigated, shut down and the owners prosecuted. Where there’s no buyer, there’s no incentive to steal like this.

Well, actually you can. A nice Mossberg or even an SKS would do the job.

I agree! Come for copper, leave with lead!

Amen.Besides we can carry concealed, and have high-capacity firearms.

Guess this will change some opinions on the stupid gun laws and illegals… wait, we’re talking about liberals aren’t we? In that case… you made your bed, sleep in it!

HAHAHA

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