Thieves scoured Kalinda Sanders' West Toledo house earlier this month, looking for anything that could be scrapped for money.
They ripped out her bathroom sink and tore a hole in the wall next to her bathtub, leaving remnants of installation scattered all over the floor.
The metal ceiling fans in the two-story home in the 1900 block of Berkshire Place, near Upton Avenue, were pulled from the ceilings.
Ms. Sanders said it looked as if a tornado had hit.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/NEWS03/106231...
That is a shame! And we used to live on Berkshire Place (the 2000 block).
Until the lion writes his own story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter (African proverb)
Are being ripped apart.
More and more houses are boarded up, usually being stripped of siding and every thing else, and also vacant businesses are being looted and vandalized.
Here's 404 Arcadia., been this way for nearly two years. Taken last year in November, still the same way now, except less siding.
And here it is in August of this year
The vacant home legislation was intended to protect the housing stock in Toledo, maybe some day, we will get an explanation of how that is going to stop the looting and vandalism.
In my neighborhood some houses were peeled like banana's in the first day of vacancy.
I don’t understand how the neighbors don’t notice this happening. I know all my immediate neighbors and their houses. I remember when my next door neighbor was on vacation and I saw a plumbing truck in his drive way. I called him on his cell phone to let him know and it turn out he had arranged for a buddy to stop by and fix something, but I would have hated to do nothing.
I personally wouldn’t have a problem blocking in someone’s truck with my Jeep. I’m not sure I’d stick around once I did it, but I’d park and run for sure. Also it seems everyone has a digital camera or cell phone camera these days, just start taking pics and if the police won’t do anything, the media eats that stuff up…
That under the cover of darkness most of the vandalism occurs.
Taking pics and forwarding them, as I do, is after the fact evidence of the deed.
Need to get to the root cause of the problem, which seems to be that people are desperate for money and resort to this to make money.
Then the scraps have to be recycled some where at some scrap yard, and it would seem that the scrap yard operators are turning a blind eye to the materials being brought in.
There was a scrap yard on Lagrange that was caught accepting scrap like aluminum siding and then nothing more has been reported on.
No! Not the beer kegs!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-08-24-keg-theft_N.htm