Apparently, things are getting weird at an exponential rate.
- I just put on an anti-theft cage over my HVAC cabinet outside of my house.
Maybe I’m just old but this whole thing feels as though it’s whirling out of control. Our whole country seems divided and angry. For sure, I can understand where some of this comes from. There’s plenty out there that seems particularly unfair to the folks that are doing their best. I for one, am a rule follower and do the things I’m supposed to do. So it really galls me that I have to put a cage over my HVAC equipment just to keep it from being destroyed by thieves. Had someone told me that this would be the case 20 years ago, I would have laughed in their face. But what makes it worse is the fact that thieves aren’t even stealing important heating and cooling equipment. They are actually destroying thousands of dollars worth of residential HVAC to get their hands on copper fittings. That’s right, entire HVAC units are torn to bits and left strewn across the yard for handfuls of copper fittings. These thieves are so desperate due to addiction or whatever circumstance that they’re willing to go to these links for copper fittings. And even then, those thieves are being paid pennies on the dollar for the copper that they steal. Yeah, I just don’t get it but I dang sure don’t want to have to fight the insurance company to replace by residential HVAC either. I guess things could get a whole lot worse but I’m sure hoping I’m not around for that.