Fire Sprinkler thefts

[FLauthor]

i work for a major company that has several resort hotels that it manages. The Scrap Thieves are stealing us blind and haven't been able to catch anyone "yet". They get into our stairwells where our Fire Sprinkler systems are and they are removing the BRASS caps that cover the pipes that fire hoses are attached to. Any Fire Fighters or Cops out there having similar problems in your areas you work in? I figure the caps covering the hose couplings on Fire Hydrants are game. In one city, scrap thieves were stealing manhole covers on city streets.
I don't figure its anyone on Treasurenet doing it. More likely Crack heads, junkies, drunks and homeless deadbeats are doing it more often than anything.
Next thing, they'll be stealing the home A/C units in neighborhoods which has happened in Chicago killing an old lady.

[DemonWolfe]

You think thats bad, awhile back people in witchita ks were stealing the brass urns and flower vases from the cemetaries. Im sure it happened elsewhere also, thats getting pretty weird and pathetic

[maipenrai]

In Thailand, its brass water meters, easy to unscrew, or just bust it off the plastic piping. Now they are made of plastic, so no one bothers them.

[boogeyman]

Out west they're after AC units. They've been grabbing 4 - 7 at a crack. I've noticed some missing decorative brass downspouts missing from the shopping centers. The power company I retired from is getting hit bad for wire. A couple weeks ago one of my old co-workers took 17 reports in two days.

[hobo finds]

AC unit thefts in Texas are so bad I heard they have new strict laws starting soon...