Copper Theft Turns Out the Lights in the Pass

Seattlest's favorite crime (just edging Identity Theft) strikes again, this time in one of Seattlest's favorite places. A copper theft at Snoqualmie Pass temporarily disabled highway signs and safety lighting, which had to suck for people navigating the pass in the middle of the night.

Don't mistake the fact that copper theft is Seattlest's favorite crime with Seattlest being in favor of the crime. It's bad and dangerous and taxpayers lose. Why is it our favorite crime, though? There's some kind of honesty in stealing something where the heavier it is, the more the score is worth. Maybe we picture a bunch of Poindexter criminals laying out the plan for their Superman III crime (aka "The Office Space." Obviously Seattlest has a very rudimentary grasp of white collar crime..) and it involves all kinds of fraud that occurs via our information infrastructure and then their thugs decide, hey, let's just steal the infrastructure itself instead. Screw you, Poindexter!

Washington's recent copper theft legislation attempts to head copper thieves off at the fence, specifically targeting scrap metal businesses.