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They do police the scrapyards around here. My local scrapper will not deal with you without a valid copy of your drivers license on file with him. He says they check him out every 3-6 months.
If I ever walk get that lucky to catch one of them in action........
A few years back, I had a house hit, this was my first one. I re plumbed it (myself ) also first one. Was down there two weeks after I was finished, to show the place to tenants, when I spy a turd in the toilet. I thought that odd, as I did not remember making a doodie last time I was there, and I'm not a Cretan, I would have flushed. Hit the lever, no water, go back to the basement, and bam, no copper again, and another broken window.
We just bought a house on Wednesday of this week, and it has all it's systems still intact. Lots ,and lots of copper pipe . We are going down there on Sunday to lock the place down like Fort Knox. I like the houses that the plumbing is already missing from. I re plumb in plastic, or pex, and give them no easy targets.
I had a close call, and almost caught them last year.