[ApolloFortyNine]

>Total repair costs, he estimates, are somewhere between $70,000 and $100,000

This is always so depressing to read, especially when you realize the thief did the damage only to gain a couple hundred dollars in copper. It's just a massive net loss for society to deal with this.

It's a similar problem places have with people destroying ac units to steal some small amount of copper.

Theft is always bad, but this blatant net negative for the world theft is the kind of thing that makes you wonder about societies long term.