Express/UK
February 12, 2013

Train lines, bridges, cables and even cemeteries have all been targeted for scrap to feed a market driven by China and India.

Police now arrest an average of four metal thieves every day, compared to a few cases every month before the crisis started in late 2009. The profile of the metal thief is also changing, authorities say, from gypsies and immigrants living on the margins of society to mainstream Greeks who have fallen on hard times.

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/3770...-for-scrap-cash

Looks like these lazy Greek slugs are actually becoming industrious when the welfare checks dried up. Scrap metals thieves have been in full effect here in the states for years. As a slumlord, I see the effects of copper thieves all the time...