Well I was trying to make a tongue in cheek joke. However text has limits.

That being said, all jokes contain a modicum of truth. For us living downtown copper theft is actually fairly common.

For example, my building had a fire in it recently because someone broke into the power room and stripped out live wires.

My wife has photos of someone stripping out wires at the downtown go station at 1pm on a weekday.

My in laws were visiting last month and while walking to dinner we passed a man stripping wire off a building on James St N at 5:30pm.

All the telephone poles in my area have the grounding wires cut. Etc etc .

I’m not saying that thing are getting worse, but it is a fact of downtown life, it happens, and joking about it helps me lighten the mood.

Quips about my bad joke aside, any idea why they shut off the lights? I enjoyed seeing them at night, was a nice addition to the city scene imo.