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I don't want an hoverboard. I want an hovercar. Replace roads with a sheet of copper and put grass over it.

I don't think you truly appreciate the price of copper. There are copper thieves, but not asphalt ones.

I don't think you truly appreciate the ingenuity of thieves. By the way, I was just passing and wondered if you needed your driveway paving? You see, we have this extra load of asphalt that we didn't need on our last job...

No, it's just that asphalt isn't worth stealing.

The driveway scam is generally done with stolen asphalt from roadway construction. I know this from a professional con artist who has had a long career in this kind of shenanigans.

Yeah, that lowers cost considerably. Copper is attractive even when it needs to be cut out of signal cables. The Norwegian railroad authority is switching to aluminum cables in certain parts of the country to avoid it.

Perhaps it's a cultural thing?

In England there is a scam where builders go door to door offering to fix your driveway. Part of the scam is offering to do it cheap because they have some left over asphalt from a large job and it needs to be used quick.

They then do a terrible job with the stolen asphalt, but cosmetically it looks okay so the householder pays and the crooks leave.

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