re: #354 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I know copper wire has been a target of theft over the past few years. Presumably that represents a difference in the cost of processing old versus new, which I would guess might have increased due to safety/environmental regulations or something.

A guy is renovating the house next door to us, and shortly after he bought it someone broke in and stripped the house of all the copper pipe. All of it.

They even took his electrical panel, which was extremely old and outdated. Presumably because there was copper in that, too.