There's already a fair bit of robbery going on for the copper and fixtures.  (I'd guess there's usually two or three mentions of it in the local crime stats in the WaPo every week.)  It's just a question of whether it becomes viable for the actual homeowners.  I do think that kind of crime is going to rise quite a bit, because abandoned homes are going to become a lot more frequent as more and more people have negative equity and decide to just mail the keys in.

Can't happen in DC, though.  We're different....

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