In an undisclosed holler in eastern Kentucky, I've seen a pile of crushed cars used as foundation piers for a house.
Ive seen the county road dept put junk cars in holes around here, then build up a road around them.been years back.
My rental house with bad tenants. They had electric service cut off and what they did was take the meter off and put two old butter knives in the meter and put it back on , free electric. The electric company caught them one time before and we figured this out after I finally got rid of the junkies that they had done it again. I asked the electric company it they are pressing charges . They said no it was not worth it and they would just be let go anyway. I had to have the electric inspected before they would reconnect the electric and I almost had to replace the meter box.
Ive seen em work twice as hard in a day to make $40, then what they would at a normal job making $100 a day.
My ex BIL demonstrated this stealing copper. He is dumb as a hammer and pure trash. He has reproduced 5 times with 4 different Girls and never had a job. His uncles and i routinely discuss our regrets of not making him disappear 10-15 years ago. Incidentally his name is actually bubba.