A friend that lives in Fresno CA tells me that the old street lights that have the cast iron base with the access hole are often opened and a rope tied onto the wires WHILE THEY ARE HOT and when attached to a car a lot of wire is pulled out. One sign in Fresno I'm told states that all the copper wire in the unoccupied building has already been stolen so please don't break and enter. Here in Walla Walla, and possibly the whole state, the scrap yards will not buy copper wire that has had the insulation burned off. I guess our low life friends will have to pool there dope and beer money to buy one of them machines.