Well, the org I worked for in NC put metal cages around all the A/C units. We had the wiring stolen out from under a house we worked on. They got about $100 of copper; it cost about $5K to rewire, IIRC. There I worked in the hood. New Orleans is mostly hood, or the hood is only ever a few blocks away, I should say.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
smonster - Oct 20, 2011 5:38:01 pm PDT #2550 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 20, 2011 5:38:25 pm PDT #2551 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Nora and I know someone whose wiring has been stolen out at least twice, if not three times.
Yep.
Although I heard that they have ripped out the innards of most of the houses in the Detroit area.
Blighted/abandoned properties here have long been stripped for parts. What's heartbreaking is when people were trying to rebuild and literally overnight they'd lose $8K worth of copper and wiring that these fucking crackheads would sell for $500.
Kat - Oct 20, 2011 5:38:56 pm PDT #2552 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA. Noah is not mpreg, thank god! I don't know how to make him legally cute. Nor do I know how to unmake Grace legally adorable.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 20, 2011 5:40:26 pm PDT #2553 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Not seriously, right?
No, of course not. My point was more that terrible laws are made all over the country, not just in the Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana Vortex of Hickitude.
Amy - Oct 20, 2011 5:41:34 pm PDT #2554 of 30001
Because books.
Stealing copper piping was a huge issue up in Central New York, too.
Grace is officially adorable! That's adorable in itself.
Kat - Oct 20, 2011 5:43:44 pm PDT #2555 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Or terrifying. Grace asked for Signing Times by signing. yay!
TV Works... I don't care what the pediatricians say. But granted, she's over 2.
Noah has a sword stuffed down the back of his t-shirt.
My kids are weird.
Ginger - Oct 20, 2011 5:47:46 pm PDT #2556 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thieves pulled the copper from the AC across the street a few years ago, as well as from a nearby house owned by a friend. They were apparently using "for rent" ads to look for vacant houses. I know another guy who bought a house in a somewhat blighted area who had the copper pulled from the HVAC system twice before he moved in.
There's also been a rash of thefts of semi trailers for scrap, and while the scrap dealers are supposed to get all the information from the sellers, that frequently doesn't happen.
Hil R. - Oct 20, 2011 5:55:20 pm PDT #2557 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This week, I gave four students zeros on written homework for plagiarism -- all of them had several sentences copied directly from the textbook. I'm puzzled as to why now -- I hadn't noticed any plagiarism before, and now four people all the same week?
Cass - Oct 20, 2011 5:56:48 pm PDT #2558 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
note that they do have a hummus app which is actually pretty tasty.
Is there nothing that iPhones can't do?
Now I am hungry.
Amy - Oct 20, 2011 5:59:14 pm PDT #2559 of 30001
Because books.
TV Works... I don't care what the pediatricians say. But granted, she's over 2.
TV is fine. None of mine were really interested until two-ish anyway.
Honestly, I miss an excuse to watch Sesame Street.