It appears the utility boxes were not welded shut, to allow open access for future repairs if needed. But, I also heard, this was an inside job, where the people who built it, knew what was there to steal in the first place. --- Still, I agree. Let it stay dark.
@@EcuaLAI was wondering about that because if you think about it someone had to been an electrician to do that without getting zapped so yeah I could see that happening 🤔👍
The sad thing is that you don't realize why we actually don't have nice things. You think it's because people just choose to do evil instead of looking at the systemic financial crisis going on where the top 1% rich people have doubled their wealth in less than a decade Create more people who are poor and desperate, and you're going to get more poor and desperate crimes.
@@brandonchristopher9657 back in my day, poor meant you rode the bus everywhere, your clothes were worn looking, you had to go to the local bar to watch tv, house phone and heat were optional, but you still had self respect and desire to stay out of the clink to keep from doing stuff this stupid. Most of the criminals you see stealing friggin copper and fridge lines are driving BMWs and wearing new Jordans. Wake up there buddy.
Yes its open borders These are metal theft gangs that ship the metal out of San Pedro and across the border They are even stealing Tesla charging cables
$600 Million in taxpayer money for the bridge, and although the copper is worth $11,000... it will cost taxpayers "Millions of dollars" for repairs. Sounds about right.
Exactly. California doesnt have the regulations for junk scrap buyers that other states have. In other states you have limits per ID and some metals are highly regulated in how you can buy them as a junk yard operator. California needs to regulate the junk yard scrap metal buyers not now but since years ago.
How easy is it to prove they bought these stolen junk? Selling something obvious like a firehydrant sure but they are most buying copper that could come from anywhere?`They can just play ignorance as long as the seller doesnt outright say he stole it.
@@Sevenfold120 In other states you cant just play ignorance for certain metals. You can only sell certain metals if you have some provenance and/or they have limits per ID. This is why this isnt as big an issue in other states.
He's a politician who should of resigned years ago (look it up) & now under his watch with the other failed leadership of LA he's complaining about being soft on crime.... you can't make this stuff up how lame they all are....
@@damiantoth8577reminds me of the failed paper straws push. Where these people were calling for the end of plastic straws and then they got crappy paper straws wrapped in plastic. Then they complained again because the straws get mashed up midway thru drinking their Starbucks
California doesnt have the regulations for junk scrap buyers that other states have. In other states you have limits per ID and some metals are highly regulated in how you can buy them as a junk yard operator. California needs to regulate the junk yard scrap metal buyers not now but since years ago.
What? I have to show my ID and see a few signed telling me of limits. I am an electrical apprentice and the journeyman save the wire for me since I make 1/3rd of them.
Los Angeles has become a COMPLETE DUMP!!! It's dirty, nasty, sidewalks smell, trash everywhere. Enjoyed growing up here during the '60s, 70s, and '80s. Worked in limos for the past 30 years. And now that industry is down to 25% of what it used to be. Just like Hollywood production is disappearing. (I miss my celebrity clients!!!) I'm 62 now, time to retire to South America. Where the cost of living is 50% of Los Angeles. All of my siblings (I'm the 4th of 6), home owners, have already left L.A. I'm the last one out. Good Riddance. ---LADriver.
thank you for your honest comment, im actually thinking of doing some intern work out there mainly so I can have a strong curriculum, also comparing salaries to see if its even worth it...where I currently live I hardly leave my truck locked, and I always leave tools there, and hearing about the crime reminds me of Mexico, but other than that I wanna test it out and see if its worth working there, im between SF or LA havent made up my mind
There are things like cameras and software that can detect suspicious movement. For a few thousand dollars you could get an alert when people are wrecking your bridge and then send law enforcement. But you would need a DA to prosecute and enough officers on the street to respond… so yeah this problem won’t get solved in LA.
R u frickin kidding me,. People in these States better start fighting against this crap. Get into government. Vote in and out who is against fighting crime and holding them responsible
You mean like how the republicans are against fighting crimes that prump did and want to give him immunity and make him President, of all things? Are they fighting crime
Let’s start with the racist corrupt councilman that CBS decided to interview, Kevin De Leon. The fact that he hasn’t resigned and could get re-elected is mind boggling.
Exactly. California doesnt have the regulations for junk scrap buyers that other states have. In other states you have limits per ID and some metals are highly regulated in how you can buy them as a junk yard operator. California needs to regulate the junk yard scrap metal buyers not now but since years ago.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat - I think the original poster meant it's a shame the bridge only lasted 2 years. Frankly, I'm surprised it lasted beyond 6 months.
It was probably stolen 6 months after the debut of the bridge. Funny thing that politicians, police and government officials realised it 2 years after; by that time, all the cable is gone.
They can't figure a way out of people picking the bridge apart? Ever heard of something called jail, lady? Maybe they could build like a 25 story tower next to the bridge so that these thieves could just move in or rip it apart to?
America is becoming like Africa. I was born in South Africa. this is what happens when you have a minority struggling middle class and increasing majority very poor. people get desperate to survive. It is happening in the UK too. Normal people are deciding to live in camper vans because rents are excessive. The wealthy are grabbing most of the pie, and not always paying full taxes relative to earnings. They claim they pay "enough" . Governments then borrow indirectly from wealth funds , which becomes a vicious circle.
I agree with the struggling middle class part, but the rest is horse hockey. The scumbags that are pulling these miles of wire out of the bridge are making money to pad their pockets. They aren't rushing to the grocers to buy peanut butter for 4 hungry kids at home.
Why isn't surveylance mandated at scrap facilities? Set it up like bank, put a ruler on the door frame, stick a fkin camera in their face at the register, and photocopy their ID and keep it on file for the next 2 years at least. Hell, you could even put a camera on the enterance and exit of the gate theyve got to drive through to unload.. theres literslly no excuse to not have already figured out who did this. Cellular based trail cams are awesome.
They do this already, photograph the seller and their ID. They don't pay cash over a certain amount, only pay by check. Also don't pay on the spot, 3 day delay. I believe the metals are shipped directly to China.
In California, sellers are photographed as well as ID. They don't give cash on the spot. You have to wait 3 days and come back or provide an address where they can mail a check. That way, if your goods are reported, they can track you down. Lots of people bringing in even small things like the cords cut off appliances or old appliances.
I have a feeling that this is more or less part of a never ending scam that allows politicians to give contracts to their friends to fix the broken bridge or broken whatever else. Just another day in America.
The country saddens me more every day. Just shy of 15 years ago scrap thieves struck many of the bridges on the railway in Guatemala (operated by an American company), as well as the tracks themselves, pulling them for scrap metal, rendering what remained of the once vast system inoperable. Now the same thing is coming to America I fear.
600 million to build a bridge??? 7 miles of wire cost Millions of Dollars??? Corruption at its best, Mexico ended this type of corruption, California needs to learn a thing or two from them.... Or else the next bridge could cost 600 billion.
They had to sell the material somewhere, who is buying the stuff? When a guy rolls up with a pile of catalytic converters they should get sone scrutiny but they don't. The scrap yards are guilty, they know what they are doing.
Wait. So the thieves have been stealing the copper wire for over a year?! And just NOW we are hearing about it? AFTER they've completed their year long heist? Over a YEAR?! Good Lord. Some elected official needs to be read the riot act for this one. My goodness.
The city has probably been replacing the stripped out sections to keep the lights working and finally clued in after a year that it wasn't going to stop. Make Crime Criminal Again and all this crap, including the shoplifting will taper off significantlly.
Just because this is the first time YOU are hearing of this doesn't mean it's the first time it's been reported. I watched a news report about copper wiring being stolen from this bridge over a year ago.
@@brandonb.5304 Fair enough. But that's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that nothing had been done to stop it. In over a year. In retrospect, I could have phrased my response with a bit more clarity there.
Dear thieves: the voltage in school football fields requires a massive amount of copper to run up the poles to the lights. This causes them to swell thus creates more metal when the lights are on. So if you cut the wires while they are on it instantly freezes the metal in the expanded state (thus more money) whereas letting cool after turning off shrinks the metal. Games are usually on weekends and the poles are far away from the stands. You’re welcome :)
Genius, let's ignore the source of the problem and go after the 3rd party down the chain......... 🙄 Yeah, let's shut down even more jobs in CA. You think everyone that works in these scrap yards is in on illegal scrapping? Oh well, you all can lose your jobs, sorry.
Considering rent prices are twice as much as they were 6 years ago, food and bills have doubled it sorta hard to blame them. I am going to be the one to say that the rise in property theft is a reflection on society that an honest days work cant pay the bills anymore.
@@HunterShows Ummm.. no. "Electric transition" refers to the government mandates to move from fossil fuels to electricity for heating, hot water, cooking, and the like. The comment appears to support the idea that the copper lines will be stolen and the transition will fail. It's happening with the EV charging stations (cutting the leads off from the charger to the car) already. Bridge wiring. Street lamp wiring. Fire hydrants. Copper plumbing from construction sites..... air conditioner condensers (the coils).
@@HunterShows All the Tesla charging stations are getting stripped of their copper. The forced CA EV transition is stupid across the board, starting with the fact that their brown-out grid cannot even support basic service, much less throwing a bunch of natural gas/electric starved EVs into the mix.
This is the result of the crime slippery slope. When the law gives slacks, the criminals inch further. If it’s not already here, lawlessness will eventually rule everything.
The electricians are going to do the job pro bono and pay their own gas too? And they will get the replacement wire at scrap yard prices? Your maths and business skills are overwhelming.
That bridge costed half a billion dollars and provides absolutely nothing of value to the city. They built a 4 lane car bridge despite there being 4 lane car bridges on either side. There is no physically protected bike lane on the half a billion dollar new bridge. We needed a cycling and pedestrian bridge which would have costed $20 million. Instead we got nothing and spent 25X more. I could care less about some decorative lights. This whole thing was a useless money pit.
@@EllieMaes-Grandad If you could care less, that means you have some level of caring. So perhaps you do. But the rest of your dissertation cites the stupidity of this bridge, and I agree with you. So you could NOT care less about the lights.
Progressive Leftism is what is happening to society. And the people complaining about what is happening will keep voting Democrat and Leftist politicians and wonder why the world is turning to crap around them.
@@Gomoboo the population was fairly similar to the modern population. Shows like dragnet exist and show that back then they had bombers in child abusers and scammers who prayed on people with recently dead relatives and shoplifters and shoplifting rings. We know that it takes one soldier per 20 citizens to establish order in a foreign country. That's a basic military doctrine. It appears that letting police forces drop from one officer per thousand citizens to one officer per 2000 citizens may not be a good idea. And it also appears that letting a few billionaires Hoover up all of the money may lead increasingly larger portions of the populations to criminal activity. Finally, as an atheist, I would also say that Protestant Christian values were stronger back then than they are today. And that was better for society as a whole.
We can’t have anything nice. It’s like the beginning of Mad Max Dystopian world. Lawlessness everywhere and Homelessness & the Mentally Asylum in the streets
They are of a type known as a dry hydrant. The actual water valve is at the bottom of the pipe going to the ground level, there is a long stem in the hydrant top that goes down to the valve. A wet hydrant has the valve right below where the hoses connect, those are the ones that shoot water high in the air when hit by cars.
No one in LA has the right to shake their heads in disgust when the majority voted to go soft on crime and diversity, humane, inclusion bs. Live in the utopia you voted for along with the consequences for said utopia until you get your heads on straight and vote tough on criminals, regardless of background.
Can’t they just engineer the exterior housing to be electrified with a switch that trips once the locked panel is removed? Or trigger a neon ultraviolet ink spray that marks the perpetrator? This could have a more tamper-resistant design without much more upfront cost at-scale.
They could, but I think the elected officials prefer it to be this way. That way they get to spend 100x the original cost of citizens taxpayer dollars to have these things continually fixed. Easy to skim off the top that way. Maybe give the bid to a "family friends" contracting company. Just a theory :)
Maybe start arresting these people
You and your fancy ideas.
Lmao right? @redavni1
That would be not wise for CA government as they lose their vote as a felon.
Newsom doesn’t want too
@@Sneakyjoe69 arresting isn’t the problem. Prosecuting them seems to be taboo for Gascon. But the people of LA got what they voted for.
No reason to repair the lighting if the city is too stupid to figure out how to stop it.
It appears the utility boxes were not welded shut, to allow open access for future repairs if needed. But, I also heard, this was an inside job, where the people who built it, knew what was there to steal in the first place. --- Still, I agree. Let it stay dark.
How else are they going to ask for more tax money to waste???
And your solution is?????
Welcome to the Democrat septic system please watch your step 🙄
@@EcuaLAI was wondering about that because if you think about it someone had to been an electrician to do that without getting zapped so yeah I could see that happening 🤔👍
THIS IS WHY WE DONT HAVE NICE THINGS.
The sad thing is that you don't realize why we actually don't have nice things. You think it's because people just choose to do evil instead of looking at the systemic financial crisis going on where the top 1% rich people have doubled their wealth in less than a decade
Create more people who are poor and desperate, and you're going to get more poor and desperate crimes.
@@brandonchristopher9657 You dont have nice things.
@@ChosenOne6666 are you my accountant?
Welcome to Biden America.
@@brandonchristopher9657 back in my day, poor meant you rode the bus everywhere, your clothes were worn looking, you had to go to the local bar to watch tv, house phone and heat were optional, but you still had self respect and desire to stay out of the clink to keep from doing stuff this stupid. Most of the criminals you see stealing friggin copper and fridge lines are driving BMWs and wearing new Jordans. Wake up there buddy.
STOP LETTING PEOPLE BE THIEVES!
open borders
@@silentmajority8365nope it’s not open borders
Yes its open borders
These are metal theft gangs that ship the metal out of San Pedro and across the border
They are even stealing Tesla charging cables
hsuehhs
Yes these are metal theft gangs that crossed the border
They are even stealing light poles and tesla charging cables
OKAY, THANK YOU. WILL LOOK INTO IT.
I swear as an electrician if copper is slightly accessible they will find a way to take it.
This was just bad urban planning! Overly expensive aesthetic design that’s vulnerable to theft in a high theft area
A society in decay.
Thank you Gavin for letting LA looking like little Haiti 🇭🇹
@@chuckxu5910 Have you actually been to Haiti?
@@thefox47545wait about 5 years, and you won't have to.
@@thefox47545 only little Haiti skid row🇭🇹
This whole country has been in decline since 1964. We'll be a third world nation in about 100 years.
$600 Million in taxpayer money for the bridge, and although the copper is worth $11,000... it will cost taxpayers "Millions of dollars" for repairs. Sounds about right.
What is labor costs
Crim crims gotta crim. 💪😎✌️
You know why these things don't happen in China? Hint: harsh sentence.
😂😂 that's the BS American way😊 remember 100 dollar hammers back in the day? Our leaders.😮
open borders
When you are wicked, and have no character, stealing a fire hydrant, and lights off a bridge means nothing.
The business that buys that scrap metal is much worse.
It means 11k. That’s an honorable reason
And the city is probably buying it back..
The city of LA is one of the most wicked cities in America, so
Cess pool, glad I don't live in California
The company that gets these metals and coppers, shut em down.
Exactly. California doesnt have the regulations for junk scrap buyers that other states have. In other states you have limits per ID and some metals are highly regulated in how you can buy them as a junk yard operator. California needs to regulate the junk yard scrap metal buyers not now but since years ago.
Gotta feed my 5 baby mamas❤❤
How easy is it to prove they bought these stolen junk? Selling something obvious like a firehydrant sure but they are most buying copper that could come from anywhere?`They can just play ignorance as long as the seller doesnt outright say he stole it.
@@Sevenfold120 In other states you cant just play ignorance for certain metals. You can only sell certain metals if you have some provenance and/or they have limits per ID. This is why this isnt as big an issue in other states.
@@jaad9848 oh ok didnt know that.
*"As long as the theft is under $900 then they are just trying to feed their family"*
Maxine Waters 2023
lol they all prob have ebt
People will still need stuff like rent
@@ducksfolif977sure they do. Let them go earn it instead of stealing it from others.
I mean if people had great paying jobs they wouldn't have to resort to stealing 🤷♂️
What universe u from? @@renerodriguez9733
States that actually put criminals behind bars don't have this problem
Which states are those exactly? Texas still has more murders per capita than california.
Yes, they do. In almost every county in the U.S. there is a scrap yard that buys stolen metal. Without them, this problem would not exist.
@DistrustHumanz Yes but the problem isn't nearly as bad in states that lock up their criminals.
this why we must go after TRUMP , vote blue , were tough on crime
@@copyprint-fz2hb Yeah, California proves that, right? Fast becoming the crime capitol of the world.
Respect is gone in this world.
If you ain't rich, then you ain't NOTHIN'.
For this "COUNTRY"
People dont care about respect they care about making ends meet in this trash city
This doesn't happen in Japan
World???
Naw, it's just CA that ain't got no respect for its taxpayers.
surprised the bridge isn't up on blocks.
😂
Who doesn't love paying taxes for this, and seeing city officials continue to do nothing.......
Kind of like paying federal taxes that get shipped off to red states that refuse to improve the lives of their population.
He's a politician who should of resigned years ago (look it up) & now under his watch with the other failed leadership of LA he's complaining about being soft on crime.... you can't make this stuff up how lame they all are....
Who, the thief?
Mr. “30 caliber clips” still in public office 🤦♂️
It's true...
Kevin DeLyin
The racist
Turn it into high voltage, risk of death.
Yes
Part of the circuit was, towards the Whittier portion.
Councilman said it himself. It is an ATM for homeless. City wont stop it since it helps homeless.
I’m fine with a 20 year prison sentence for stealing a fire hydrant.
At a prison in the Aleutian islands of Alaska.
So you admit it
Sign of a society in collapse.
Did you get your trump bible , what about trump steaks, trump ties, trump wine, trump coins
@@richardmesser1091 No, what address did you send them to?
It’s Official, LA is the new Detroit.
No, Detroit is much nicer.
FYI : Down in Louisiana and Georgia after hurricane Katrina, there was a "shoot on sight" order for all looters. . . just saying.
Learn from South Africa, leave the lights on during the day so that thieves can’t steal the copper lines.
That would raise the city's Carbo footprint😂😂.
If each light has its own photovoltaic switch, the wire is hot.
@@ThePhoenixcompaniesSpoken like a true Californian, worrying about carbon footprint nonsense. And you wonder why you can't have nice things.
@@damiantoth8577reminds me of the failed paper straws push. Where these people were calling for the end of plastic straws and then they got crappy paper straws wrapped in plastic. Then they complained again because the straws get mashed up midway thru drinking their Starbucks
@@damiantoth8577 I was being sarcastic. I live in the midwest.
@@ThePhoenixcompanies😂 you're forgiven and accepted back into Midwest heaven.
California doesnt have the regulations for junk scrap buyers that other states have. In other states you have limits per ID and some metals are highly regulated in how you can buy them as a junk yard operator. California needs to regulate the junk yard scrap metal buyers not now but since years ago.
What? I have to show my ID and see a few signed telling me of limits. I am an electrical apprentice and the journeyman save the wire for me since I make 1/3rd of them.
Los Angeles has become a COMPLETE DUMP!!! It's dirty, nasty, sidewalks smell, trash everywhere.
Enjoyed growing up here during the '60s, 70s, and '80s.
Worked in limos for the past 30 years. And now that industry is down to 25% of what it used to be. Just like Hollywood production is disappearing. (I miss my celebrity clients!!!)
I'm 62 now, time to retire to South America. Where the cost of living is 50% of Los Angeles.
All of my siblings (I'm the 4th of 6), home owners, have already left L.A. I'm the last one out.
Good Riddance.
---LADriver.
Sweet, you won’t be missed
Bye! Bye!
thank you for your honest comment, im actually thinking of doing some intern work out there mainly so I can have a strong curriculum, also comparing salaries to see if its even worth it...where I currently live I hardly leave my truck locked, and I always leave tools there, and hearing about the crime reminds me of Mexico, but other than that I wanna test it out and see if its worth working there, im between SF or LA havent made up my mind
@@Thechosen77Trust, stay far away.. and work in The Bay Area. The lights are still on on every bridge.💡
@@BrooklynBaby100I was in the Bay area recently. It's the same in some areas. I was in Sacramento and Oakland. Not good.
There are things like cameras and software that can detect suspicious movement. For a few thousand dollars you could get an alert when people are wrecking your bridge and then send law enforcement.
But you would need a DA to prosecute and enough officers on the street to respond… so yeah this problem won’t get solved in LA.
R u frickin kidding me,. People in these States better start fighting against this crap. Get into government. Vote in and out who is against fighting crime and holding them responsible
😆 That's cute. You think voting has an effect.
You mean like how the republicans are against fighting crimes that prump did and want to give him immunity and make him President, of all things? Are they fighting crime
NEITHER party will help us. Voting for change is just an illusion.
Let’s start with the racist corrupt councilman that CBS decided to interview, Kevin De Leon. The fact that he hasn’t resigned and could get re-elected is mind boggling.
They let this go on because they get to charge millions of dollars for repairs that goes to businesses that in return endorse them
Homeboy confidently saying a 50K repair will cost the taxpayers millions. There’s the problem right there
The scrap buyers are the key.
Right
Exactly. California doesnt have the regulations for junk scrap buyers that other states have. In other states you have limits per ID and some metals are highly regulated in how you can buy them as a junk yard operator. California needs to regulate the junk yard scrap metal buyers not now but since years ago.
@@jaad9848they regulate everything else lol why not scrap. Some politician lost out on some money.
The drug dealers profit from the proceeds of the scrap metal sale.
Close off the bridge at night, have cameras and motion sensors, anyone caught on it after dark arrested and booked.
What a disgrace. Two years?!
It ain't nothin' if you just hit eleven previous scores for tens of thousands. Crim crims gotta crim. 💪😎✌️
@@Novastar.SaberCombat - I think the original poster meant it's a shame the bridge only lasted 2 years. Frankly, I'm surprised it lasted beyond 6 months.
this why we must go after TRUMP , vote blue , were tough on crime
Actually, about a year ago this exact same thing happened, so, this is the 2nd time!!
It was probably stolen 6 months after the debut of the bridge. Funny thing that politicians, police and government officials realised it 2 years after; by that time, all the cable is gone.
They can't figure a way out of people picking the bridge apart? Ever heard of something called jail, lady?
Maybe they could build like a 25 story tower next to the bridge so that these thieves could just move in or rip it apart to?
25 years in jail
More like 25 mins lol
You can not afford to lock up every thief for 25 years. Think, McFly!
this why we must go after TRUMP , vote blue , were tough on crime
The DA in LA is a progressive prosecutor
I totally agree for"All" the worthless politicians allowing this to happen 😏👍🍻
America is becoming like Africa. I was born in South Africa. this is what happens when you have a minority struggling middle class and increasing majority very poor. people get desperate to survive. It is happening in the UK too. Normal people are deciding to live in camper vans because rents are excessive. The wealthy are grabbing most of the pie, and not always paying full taxes relative to earnings. They claim they pay "enough" . Governments then borrow indirectly from wealth funds , which becomes a vicious circle.
Unfortunately South Africa became a failed state. One Mandela took over, but it’s delicate is more obvious and worse in the past 10 years or so
Fix the problem by giving more money to the politicians who created the problem.
Most immigrants live in LA
This has nothing to do with poverty. There is simply no reason to be honest when there are no consequences for being a criminal, thanks to Democrats.
I agree with the struggling middle class part, but the rest is horse hockey. The scumbags that are pulling these miles of wire out of the bridge are making money to pad their pockets. They aren't rushing to the grocers to buy peanut butter for 4 hungry kids at home.
Why isn't surveylance mandated at scrap facilities? Set it up like bank, put a ruler on the door frame, stick a fkin camera in their face at the register, and photocopy their ID and keep it on file for the next 2 years at least. Hell, you could even put a camera on the enterance and exit of the gate theyve got to drive through to unload.. theres literslly no excuse to not have already figured out who did this. Cellular based trail cams are awesome.
They do this already, photograph the seller and their ID. They don't pay cash over a certain amount, only pay by check. Also don't pay on the spot, 3 day delay. I believe the metals are shipped directly to China.
Some places require a contractors license to sell copper as well as id.
Ohio has i.d. check at scrap yards. Ohio has street lights
In California, sellers are photographed as well as ID. They don't give cash on the spot. You have to wait 3 days and come back or provide an address where they can mail a check. That way, if your goods are reported, they can track you down. Lots of people bringing in even small things like the cords cut off appliances or old appliances.
I have a feeling that this is more or less part of a never ending scam that allows politicians to give contracts to their friends to fix the broken bridge or broken whatever else. Just another day in America.
The country saddens me more every day. Just shy of 15 years ago scrap thieves struck many of the bridges on the railway in Guatemala (operated by an American company), as well as the tracks themselves, pulling them for scrap metal, rendering what remained of the once vast system inoperable. Now the same thing is coming to America I fear.
Maybe put people who are caught in jail. That way people will be scared to steal. It’s a crazy concept but it might just work
600 million to build a bridge???
7 miles of wire cost Millions of Dollars???
Corruption at its best, Mexico ended this type of corruption, California needs to learn a thing or two from them.... Or else the next bridge could cost 600 billion.
The real crime is 600M for a bridge.
Sounds like money laundering
They had to sell the material somewhere, who is buying the stuff?
When a guy rolls up with a pile of catalytic converters they should get sone scrutiny but they don't. The scrap yards are guilty, they know what they are doing.
Look on the "bright" side. Politicians can give their buddies contracts to constantly repair the bridge. A little kickback never hurt anyone....
Wait. So the thieves have been stealing the copper wire for over a year?! And just NOW we are hearing about it? AFTER they've completed their year long heist? Over a YEAR?! Good Lord. Some elected official needs to be read the riot act for this one. My goodness.
The city has probably been replacing the stripped out sections to keep the lights working and finally clued in after a year that it wasn't going to stop. Make Crime Criminal Again and all this crap, including the shoplifting will taper off significantlly.
politicians paid for doing no work?
Just because this is the first time YOU are hearing of this doesn't mean it's the first time it's been reported. I watched a news report about copper wiring being stolen from this bridge over a year ago.
@@brandonb.5304 Fair enough. But that's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that nothing had been done to stop it. In over a year. In retrospect, I could have phrased my response with a bit more clarity there.
Why did this bridge cost 3/4 of a billion dollars?
That question is racist! Stop asking questions.
excuse me sir, i need you to stop with the antisemitism or there will be consequences
What kind of question is that? Are you some kind of far-right extremists?
concrete and steel aint cheap
They actually already had a bridge, but this one has prettier lights and is expensiver.
11,000 in damage, but it costs the tax payers MILLIONS to repair??? Something doesn’t seem right.
In Detroit the recycling companies will call the police or they’ll be fined
Dear thieves: the voltage in school football fields requires a massive amount of copper to run up the poles to the lights. This causes them to swell thus creates more metal when the lights are on. So if you cut the wires while they are on it instantly freezes the metal in the expanded state (thus more money) whereas letting cool after turning off shrinks the metal. Games are usually on weekends and the poles are far away from the stands. You’re welcome :)
Mayor Bass you failed us in LA
Mayor can't control thieves. That a character problem in people.
It’s almost all of California
@@ronaldckrausejr7762 Thank DNC rainbow
Even the fictional Kunta Kinte would be embarrassed.
I mean just look at her. What do you expect
Aluminum wiring? It is still recyclable but pays less than a dollar a pound compared to copper which is over four a pound.
600m for that?? Embezzlement at its finest
It's 3,500ft long, four lanes wide, and crosses over a highway, a river, a railroad, and a bunch of buildings. How much should that have cost?
@@SilkCrownas a contractor. Not 600 million. Keep paying taxes like a good boy
Gavin Newsome: “That’s the California way!”
A 600 Million Dollar Asset and No Guards to Protect it. Sounds about right.
They definetly got away with it and called heroes in they’re neighborhood🤦🏽♂️
Shut down all the company's that buy the copper and fire hydrants. The only way we can make them stop is taking away their source of income.
Genius, let's ignore the source of the problem and go after the 3rd party down the chain......... 🙄 Yeah, let's shut down even more jobs in CA. You think everyone that works in these scrap yards is in on illegal scrapping? Oh well, you all can lose your jobs, sorry.
Considering rent prices are twice as much as they were 6 years ago, food and bills have doubled it sorta hard to blame them. I am going to be the one to say that the rise in property theft is a reflection on society that an honest days work cant pay the bills anymore.
Good point
Yet another reason why the great electric transition won’t happen.
There are news reports that thieves are now stealing Tesla Super Power Station cables. There are out in the open, and they have copper in them.
I don't get it. Are you saying we can't have an electric grid?
@@HunterShows Ummm.. no. "Electric transition" refers to the government mandates to move from fossil fuels to electricity for heating, hot water, cooking, and the like. The comment appears to support the idea that the copper lines will be stolen and the transition will fail. It's happening with the EV charging stations (cutting the leads off from the charger to the car) already. Bridge wiring. Street lamp wiring. Fire hydrants. Copper plumbing from construction sites..... air conditioner condensers (the coils).
@@HunterShows All the Tesla charging stations are getting stripped of their copper. The forced CA EV transition is stupid across the board, starting with the fact that their brown-out grid cannot even support basic service, much less throwing a bunch of natural gas/electric starved EVs into the mix.
@@HunterShows yes.
The contractors are probably hiring people to pick the bridge apart to keep billing the city.
Tell me again how crime is down
If crime were down, how would you know?
The voters' choice of politicians wanted this. This is exactly the result of what they wanted.
Maybe don't repair it? If you can't keep it secure, don't light it up. People shouldn't be on the bridge at night, it isn't safe.
Same people that were stealing catalytic converters. When you don’t arrest, prosecute, and jail or deport, this is what you get.
A $600,000,000 symbol of Newsom, Bass and Gascon's failures.
No. That bridge and cooper theft has been years in the making and has nothing to do with any of these people. Nice try trumpster.
Yet trump has 34 felonies, he's your role model
Crime is down everybody. Don’t believe your own eyes.
Shut down the scrap recycling centers.
those who are caught buying state assets should be put out of business and fined (maybe 60 million USD)
So that fire hydrant is worth about 3 cents. You’d have to have a semi full of those to make anything. What fools.
If I’m the construction company, I’d hire these thieves and buy the scraps to infinitely have a job 😂
This is the result of the crime slippery slope. When the law gives slacks, the criminals inch further. If it’s not already here, lawlessness will eventually rule everything.
"Build it and they will come" - to strip it clean!! 😢
"Cost the tax payers millions." And thr state doesn't care. Tax the people! Tax them into oblivion!
That's when you know a city has hit rock bottom
34 felonies is when your party has hit rock bottom
@@richardmesser1091 Making misdemeanors into felonies that the Supreme Court will overturn is hitting rock bottom 😂
Be tougher on crime and drugs, and then your state will do better.
Just need to arrest and prosecute. Oh wait, you defunded and stopped prosecuting… welcome to the third world LA! Nice
Next up the thieves are going to yoink a part of the Golden Gate Bridge thinking it's gold.
Didn't know people are this bold and desperate for money.
They are not so poor that they need money to maintain their lifestyle.
You are naive
These are metal theft gangs that have crossed the border
Even homeless people would be brazen to do it. Look out
It’s free… why not take something of value if there’s no consequences
@@bthink3610 no consequences? Without copper, you shut the bridge light down. How you gonna see at night while crossing with your car?
Our country is sliding daily into the abyss, soon our cities will look no different then ...
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Man, California seems great.
There is only one way to stop this for good but I can’t say it on UA-cam so I guess this Madness will just continue. Good Luck Everyone.
Ban thieves, criminalize theft! This is crazy
Can't have nothing nice in Boyle Heights 😡
Boyle Heights is in the house!
when you dont take care of the people, people have to take care of themselves .. blame low wages, homeless ect ect ect ect ect ect ect.....
“ 11,000 for the copper wire. Millions of dollars for the repairs.” Make that make sense.
Go to Home depot and look up a toll of wire then look at the weight.
The electricians are going to do the job pro bono and pay their own gas too? And they will get the replacement wire at scrap yard prices? Your maths and business skills are overwhelming.
@@entropybentwhistlestupefying, even.
Has nothing at all to do with the cost of living crisis, nothing to see here
That bridge costed half a billion dollars and provides absolutely nothing of value to the city. They built a 4 lane car bridge despite there being 4 lane car bridges on either side. There is no physically protected bike lane on the half a billion dollar new bridge. We needed a cycling and pedestrian bridge which would have costed $20 million. Instead we got nothing and spent 25X more. I could care less about some decorative lights. This whole thing was a useless money pit.
Do you mean you *COULDN’T* care less…?
@@BitSmythe Think about it, say it, and repeat it to yourself. The original terminology put emphasis in a way which you did not understand.
@@EllieMaes-Grandad If you could care less, that means you have some level of caring. So perhaps you do. But the rest of your dissertation cites the stupidity of this bridge, and I agree with you. So you could NOT care less about the lights.
Hasn’t this been going on since day 1 they built the bridge?
WTF is happening to society?? Someone explain
Progressive Leftism is what is happening to society. And the people complaining about what is happening will keep voting Democrat and Leftist politicians and wonder why the world is turning to crap around them.
A bunch of criminals in every corner of government for the past 100 years.
i'm sure gavin newsome has a plan to sort all of this out, he seems like a stand up guy who really has his stuff together.
The police force in Los angeles, adjusted for population, is now half the size it was in in 1960.
And the population didn't put up with thieves, winos, deadbeats, etc.
@@Gomoboo the population was fairly similar to the modern population. Shows like dragnet exist and show that back then they had bombers in child abusers and scammers who prayed on people with recently dead relatives and shoplifters and shoplifting rings.
We know that it takes one soldier per 20 citizens to establish order in a foreign country. That's a basic military doctrine.
It appears that letting police forces drop from one officer per thousand citizens to one officer per 2000 citizens may not be a good idea. And it also appears that letting a few billionaires Hoover up all of the money may lead increasingly larger portions of the populations to criminal activity.
Finally, as an atheist, I would also say that Protestant Christian values were stronger back then than they are today. And that was better for society as a whole.
Destroying firefighting infrastructure should have the same punishment as arson itself.
Yet, silence from the Gov on the.rampant crime in CA.
Trump will fix it, when he gets out of jail
Lol! See that’s why we can never have nothing nice 😤. These thieves will steal literally ANYTHING. 🤦♂️
Democrats and repair contractors have quite the racket going don't they.
Low-trust society
We can’t have anything nice. It’s like the beginning of Mad Max Dystopian world. Lawlessness everywhere and Homelessness & the Mentally Asylum in the streets
Bidenomics.
I think it’s one person stealing copper and fire hydrants
This is what happens when your city is falling apart.
Why didnt water come out when they broke off the hydrant
Maybe they know where the shut off valve is.
They are of a type known as a dry hydrant. The actual water valve is at the bottom of the pipe going to the ground level, there is a long stem in the hydrant top that goes down to the valve. A wet hydrant has the valve right below where the hoses connect, those are the ones that shoot water high in the air when hit by cars.
What a god awful state , poverty , pathetic , no reprocusions
No one in LA has the right to shake their heads in disgust when the majority voted to go soft on crime and diversity, humane, inclusion bs. Live in the utopia you voted for along with the consequences for said utopia until you get your heads on straight and vote tough on criminals, regardless of background.
Can’t they just engineer the exterior housing to be electrified with a switch that trips once the locked panel is removed? Or trigger a neon ultraviolet ink spray that marks the perpetrator? This could have a more tamper-resistant design without much more upfront cost at-scale.
They could, but I think the elected officials prefer it to be this way. That way they get to spend 100x the original cost of citizens taxpayer dollars to have these things continually fixed. Easy to skim off the top that way. Maybe give the bid to a "family friends" contracting company. Just a theory :)
Oh, LA 😂🤦♂️
But is anyone really surprised at this point?
I feel like the guy is making stuff because LA is too expensive
Start making people accountable for their crimes
this bridge is a mistake
Every time I think L.A. has hit bottom, there is another story that says otherwise.