I remember watching old movies when I was a kid and being fascinated with the criminals.
It seemed like so many of them were just so crafty and smart.
There was always that element of if only they could put their skills to something good instead of being a thief. Well, I have to say that my up close experience with real criminals has been the opposite. And the latest trend of smash and grab jobs on HVAC equipment is further evidence that most criminals are actually just stupid. Stupid and desparate I should add. That’s really the only thing that makes any sense to me as I see the wreckage of these smash and grab HVAC thefts. The thieves are bypassing thousands of dollars of valuable HVAC equipment for handfuls of copper fittings. That’s right, we’ll simply destroy the HVAC cabinet and all the valuable HVAC contents so we can get to the copper. And then, we’ll take pennies on the dollar from a black market copper dealer. Yea, that sounds like a genius plan, lets get with it. This is the sort of pretend conversation I hear in my head when I ponder what these HVAC thieves are thinking. I don’t know but I’m sure not going to sacrifice my HVAC equipment for a few dollars of copper fittings. I ordered and installed a steel reinforced cage that fits over the HVAC cabinet. I then bolted and locked that cage down to the concrete pad it’s sitting on. There isn’t any way that my HVAC equipment is now going to be the victim of some stupid and desparate criminal act.