This house shown, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, in Springfield, Ohio, is one of several in the city that have been stripped of aluminum siding and copper pipes by thieves looking to sell the scrap metal. Fueled in part by a building boom in China, demand for copper has pushed its price to historic highs, and aluminum prices are the highest they've been in 17 years.

First of all, someone stripped a house of its gutters and aluminum siding and no one noticed? WOW!

I think I need to hire a rent-a-cop and post him in my front yard.