It's so bad here that the recycling center makes you have a receipt for where you got the copper from when you show up to sell it. All the addicts are stripping copper wire from anywhere they can get it.
Yup about a year ago some clown stole the motors out of my swamp coolers yet left everything else intact. I called the Sheriffs and they informed me that addicts will do ANYTHING no matter how difficult in order to fund their addiction. It's definitely not someone reselling whole radiators that is doing this.