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From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. We have a sign of the economic times tonight. A crime hitting cities in towns across the country. With the price of metal soaring 높이 치솟다, thieves are stealing whatever metal and wire they can get their hands on <필요한 것을> 손에 넣다. 35 states have taken up laws to crack down on ~을 엄벌에 처하다 metal theft. But as Pierre Thomas, reports, it’s a tough crime to fight.

 

Thieves are leading a gold rush on metal. Just ask North Carolina’s Thomasville Bulldogs. “This is kind of strange, but we’re not playing tonight.” Friday night lights out. Game postponed. Bandits 강도 ripped 떼내다 the wire right out of the electrical box powering the stadium lights. “Somebody has stole the copper wires in the stadium lights, so they have no stadium lights.”

 

In Washington State, nearly 100 electric stations have been raided this year. 18 miles worth of copper wire 구리 stolen costing taxpayers a half million dollars. In Detroit, wire from electric company’s substations 변전소 have been targeted 400 times in the past year alone, infuriating 노발대발하게 하다 thousands of residents left in the dark.

 

Across the country, there’s been an epidemic <같은 범죄, 사건 따위의> 다발 of metal and wire thefts. All because scrap metal 고철 has never been, well, more precious 값비싼. The price of copper is more than $3. It’s nearly tripled in the past 5 years. The price of other metals is surging 급등하다 as well due in part to booming construction in China and India.

 

Traffic lights, manhole covers 맨홀 뚜껑, churches and cemeteries 묘지 all have been hit as well. Huge metal statues weighing hundreds of pounds stolen, too. Hard to stop because the stolen metal often looks like junk. It’s gotten so bad that the scrap yard had to install security cameras. But bandits recently robbed them anyway. Pierre Thomas, ABC News, Washington.

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