Michigan has quite a history of thieves stealing copper. Detroit with all its abandoned houses was quite the target for years. Copper thieves would strip hous

Michigan has quite a history of thieves stealing copper. Detroit with all its abandoned houses was quite the target for years. Copper thieves would strip houses destroying them and then take everything else including furnaces and sinks. But picking is getting scarce and now they're attacking pumping stations built in the fifties to pump water out of below ground freeways. A few years ago Detroit had a five inch rain and it took them days with rented pumps to begin using the freeways again. Did a little searching and found that thieves have been arrested in W.Va. as well for breaking into an old copper mine. Thing is about Michigan's Upper Peninsula the people are poor, jobs are scarce and there are dozens if not hundreds of old abandoned copper mines.