Having a rethink. If that plaque represents putting food on the table for your kids, does stealing it make it any less reprehensible?

Unfortunately some scrap metal dealers don't ask where the goods come from. And there are organised gangs that go out and steal metal, even electric cabling from train lines (putting people in grave danger) and the antenna from your car (which is merely annoying). These may not be drug addicts. But they may be unemployed people with kids to feed.