OK. The last time copper was being stripped from anything imaginable occurred during a spike in its prices.

I think what you’re seeing here is a combination of vandalism against surveillance, but more, especially the kind of people who strip copper from everything possible and store it until the price goes up. People in the trades are well aware of this phenomenon, especially all the copper made available when demolishing an existing structure

https://youtu.be/WH8XeA3a4I0