Lead thieves rely on Google Earth, targets churches

Using Google Earth to steal? Now that’s definitely a novel idea, and lead thieves in Britain have done so by relying on Google Earth to target lead roofs on Church of England buildings, where the fruits of their “labor” is then sold on the lucrative metals market. So far, an outstanding 8,000 churches have already made insurance claims for lead theft that totals around 23 million pounds over the course of the past three years (you can tell that material prices have soared), according to the Church’s estate commissioner Tony Baldry. Some churches have been repeat targets, where one of them have had to replace their roofs a whopping 14 times. This is definitely using modern technology in the wrong way. What’s next? Stealing solar panels?