Friday, October 10, 2008

Copper in the crapper


Just how bad is the U.S. economy? Even Flint's notorious copper thieves are hurting as metal prices plummet along with the stock market. Scrap metal stealers are doing even worse.


Flint isn't exactly embracing green technology, but at least that means Flint thieves can't get their hands on one item that is hot on the black market these days — solar panels.


1 comment:

  1. I hope this means the copper thieves will stop plundering vacant houses now. The worse area is in the Civic Park area.

    RoadsideDinerLover (CARA)

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.