@phil meadows said:

Well Mike, I have a vacant house here in town, and some punks made off with our copper gas lines, and the copper coils in our two AC units. They would have got the plumbing as well, but thankfully it's not copper.

The AC guy I have replacing the units says they never even turned of the electricity to the larger unit, and may have gotten a shock when the pulled all the wires. I sincerely hope so.

The bastards! I hope the got a good shock also.

Having a vacant property is a bloody headache these days. However with the array of low cost camera surveillance equipment that can be monitored by a smart-phone is helping.

Some heads-up:

http://googleblog.blogspot.hu/2012/06/never-ending-quest-for-perfect-map.html
and the "what happens to my GE models" announcement:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/3dwh/-GQj7OlZshA/discussion

ok I've got PMs with links to those who contacted me. Thanks for all the help fellas.

Hehe... Paul, fortunately I live on the third (and fourth and fifth) floor. Hopefully they won't fly over the streets, too, to take shots of my naked butt when I get up skratching it in the morning...