A Riverside County man has been arrested after he reportedly stole multiple fire hydrants in order to sell them for scrap.
According to police, the unidentified 45 year old man stole as many as 45 fire hydrants in San Bernardino County and Riverside County in Southern California.
The man, who posed as a repairman, stole the fire hydrants in broad daylight. He simply unbolted the hydrants from the ground and took them away. They hydrants weigh anywhere from 80 to 100 pounds.
The man sold the fire hydrants for scrap at a rate of $1.60 a pound. Authorities said the fire hydrants cost nearly $2000 each to replace.
The man was not caught until a water district employee noticed him acting suspiciously and notified San Bernardino police.
I mean, why not? You steal one, you get a way with out, you steal two, you get away with it, you steal 44 and you get away with it and then caught on the 45th. And all of this done in broad daylight. Seems pretty easy to me and I am guessing that is why he kept stealing them.
So if you want to steal something, go to San Bernardino or Riverside Counties, because obviously there must be a lack of police on duty, or they are just not smart enough to catch a thief who is lifting 100 pounds of bright yellow metal in broad daylight.
A man who was stealing electricity with jumper cables, because he could not pay his electrical bill, was arrested at his home and charged with theft of services.
James Bozeman of Marion County, Florida, confessed to the bizarre crime. Bozeman used jumper cables to connect an electrical pole near his garage to his breaker box, bypassing the power meter, which allowed for free electricity. In total, he stole $3,000 worth of electricity since 2005.
The first person that needs to be charged with a crime here is the meter reader. I mean come on, since 2005 you come to this house and not once do you think to yourself that someone is living in the home, yet the meter reads zero. Seems pretty obvious to me, how hard can it be to read a meter. If Bozeman needs more money to pay his bill, then he should get a job as a meter reader, which obviously a two year old could do.
I understand the dilemma Bozeman has to face. I hate paying my electrical bill too. Every year they get more and more expensive. But come on, five years? One year maybe, but five years is way too long. If he is smart enough to figure out how to steal electricity, then he is smart enough to get another job or figure out how to pay the bill like most normal people.
Ironic how he bonded out of jail, I guess he can afford that.
