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> Nearly 470 sections of guardrailing were stolen in the last fiscal year alone in L.A. and Ventura counties, costing the state transportation agency $17,000 to
by stevage 1y ago
> Nearly 470 sections of guardrailing were stolen in the last fiscal year alone in L.A. and Ventura counties, costing the state transportation agency $17,000 to replace, the agency said.
This implies that the total value to the thieves is pretty tiny.
Actually hang on...that must be an error. Do they mean $17,000 each? That seems too high, but $36 each seems way too low.
- potato3732842 1y agoCop math, aka lying. It's like when they say they found a bajillion bucks of coke by lying and projecting wholesale quantity of coke down to what it would retail for as nickle bags of crack. Literally every stat institution does this sort of math slight of hand by default in situations like this. They're probably using the most unfavorable triple OT, gotta close a lane, lots of people involved assumptions for labor rate. I'd try to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're quoting the base material cost but that math don't math. $36 probably only just barely covers a 6ft section of 6" I beam pounded into the ground for guardrail and certainly wouldn't cover a section of guard rail let alone a 3"+ pipe of steel say nothing of aluminum