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Super Guido said:
Around here, junkies steal the caps off of the fire hydrants to sell for scrap prices. Sometimes shit gets clogged up with the cap missing, but beyond that I'm not sure.

ETA: So they're actually taking entire fire hydrants, eh? They must really want their fix.
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I lived in Utah for a while and it happened there all the time. Even in the nice neighborhood I lived in. Was the first time I heard about it.
 
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PixarsTedKennedy said:
I lived in Utah for a while and it happened there all the time. Even in the nice neighborhood I lived in. Was the first time I heard about it.
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It's scary how desperate druggies are.

Maybe I never noticed hydrants missing because I don't notice them to start with. It's obvious when the caps are gone, though.
 
BlewberryNausea said:
Yes somehow thieves are stealing fire hydrants.
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-california/public-safety/2024/08/20/why-fire-hydrants-are-going-missing-in-la-county#:~:text=The%20Los%20Angeles%20County%20Sheriff's%20Department%20says%20thieves%20are%20hoping,some%20of%20these%20hydrants%20have.
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Lol holy shit.
Golden State Water Company general manager Kate Nutting says there have been over 300 fire hydrant thefts this year so far. She says replacing the hydrants with new locking collars is slowing things down, but it's costly.

"To replace one of these hydrants, it's from $4,000 to $5,000," Nutting said. "We have lost over about $1.5 million worth of property."
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I still question whether enough of them haven't been replaced to have a substantial impact on the current fires but it wouldn't surprise me. How much money does one make on scrap from a fire hydrant you've pried out of the ground with power tools anyway? With the cost of gas in California there can't be much overhead by the time you get it to the scrapyard.
 
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Who wants to go to the pier today?
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dick brain said:
And I'm going to say, as someone who has spent time in California and Los Angeles specifically: no they fucking aren't and no it is not. LA is a part of America in the same sense that a tumor is a part of your body. I have been virtually everywhere in America because I love America and I cannot think of a place more deserving of total destruction except Portland. There's nobody there who isn't complicit in the ethos it embodies.

Let it burn.
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I had to work with one. Yeah they are fucking assholes. They are out of touch. They are still fucking family you niggerfaggot.
 
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Every single person who still lived there for years after the rot began is either a waste of flesh junkie, a faggot pedophile rich enough to afford property there, some fat-nosed Jew producer, their undocumented slave labor, or absolutely beyond all capacity for shirking blind sentimentality and getting the fuck out. You CANNOT have a more obvious Sodom and Gomorrah than LA short of maybe Tel Aviv; and I refuse to be manipulated by faggot moral spooks about how 'They're Americans just like you' when they've done nothing but leech lifeblood off the rest of this country, spread their disease to states and communities that didn't want or need it, and look down on every other state with such a disgusting excess of moral superiority unbecoming of normal, decent human beings.
 
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There She Glows said:
Lol holy shit.

I still question whether enough of them haven't been replaced to have a substantial impact on the current fires but it wouldn't surprise me. How much money does one make on scrap from a fire hydrant you've pried out of the ground with power tools anyway? With the cost of gas in California there can't be much overhead by the time you get it to the scrapyard.
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Since covid, metal prices in general have been through the roof. A hydrant is a lot of steel and brass. That's a nice bit of chump change if you take it to a scrapper
 
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