Info: Motor city files for bankruptcy today.

[durallymax]

I'm a lineman in Detroit. I've been all over the city and seen pretty much every area. All I can say is you would not believe some of the shit that I see every day. The natives steal the power lines on a regular basis to scrap the copper. Anything that is metal on an abandoned house is long gone and scrapped. We've had a few guys robbed at gun point, most of the time they just steal all the copper off of our trucks. There are some good people there, mostly the older ones. They will keep up on their houses and keep the grass cut.

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I have a friend who's a lineman as well. He has some crazy stories just from rural Wisconsin areas. Generally its guys who come out of the larger cities to try and steal stuff in the middle of nowhere. Everybody else in rural wisconsin can be accounted for at the local bar(s). They've caught guys trying to disassemble components at substations. Surprisingly they've only ran into a couple dead ones. I don't know what goes through peoples heads but you would think they would know enough that you don't just want to go around cutting things at a substation. He said they had one guy literally drive into their jobsite, broad daylight, load up a roll of wire and leave. Obviously they caught him, but that is ballsy

I remember reading an article recently about a guy getting killed when he was shooting down power lines. He picked up a live line and was fried. He was shooting them down to steal the copper. The reports didn't say but I would've laughed even harder if they were Aluminum lines like a lot of the newer ones are.

Hope my city hall is watching, cause we're next. Oozing population. Closed the high school this year. What am I supposed to do with all the candy?!

Wow that's a shame that every town that had some sort of blue collar work is destroyed by the politics . We had the steel mills here in pittsburgh and they shut them all down but one In Braddock. In Erie Pa there shutting G E down and going south to Texas. Zurns was a another big MFG that left and head to Texas theses company's were both in Erie for almost a 100 years and they pulled out because of politics.

I don't get into much for politics, but just as an outsider looking in, I think if they people working in many of those blue collar jobs would not have pushed their ratio of pay versus work time and education so high, the jobs may have survived.