Tomb Raiding 2011

“Sky-high metals prices combined with the weak U.S. economy in recent years have led brazen thieves to strip copper wire out of vacant homes, swipe stainless-steel beer kegs from bars and even make off with manhole covers, street lights and parts of fire hydrants. Just this month, Illinois officials reported that someone had stolen a three-foot copper sword from Abraham Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield. But the theft of thousands of vases at cemeteries across the country has brought the thievery to new depths.”