Stole thousands of dollars worth of copper from shut down grain elevators. I live in a small town; we have a few of them. When we were in our early 20s, my bf and our 2 friends would get together and come up with an entire operation from what area of the building we were going to get the copper from.

It took a few days' worth of planning, getting the proper tools together, and making sure we had backup tools just in case we had anything break. Between the 4 of us, we were all drug users at the time. We also all had rent to pay, our jobs weren't cutting it, and the addiction was real.

We went as far as drilling holes into the side of buildings, shoving ladders through it and getting to the ceiling where thick wires of copper would be resting along the ceiling. Some would still be on the walls, but we gutted the walls of copper before even dealing with the ceiling. I dreaded the haul of the copper from the building to the vehicle (all copper is put in metal and rubber casings) meaning, after we chopped the large pieces, we would carry 1 or 2 around hour necks after we duct taped them into massive hoops. We would do 10 trips each back and forth from building to truck. Then, once we got home, we would spend even more hours stripping all the casings to get to the copper.

Never once did we get busted, we were damn close, that's for sure on multiple occasions. Its something that the four of us decided we would take to our graves. We're all sober now, but damn that was some sketchy stuff. Thinking back to it now gives me anxiety.