Other than the ethical part, the physical possibilities are: Just recently a group of young men in the area got caught steal copper and metal from people's camp properties, the end result one of them got 3 to 7 years in prison, the other 2 got 1 year each in the county pokey. During this same period a young man stealing copper from a abandon factory was electrocuted. I won't buy stolen or sell stolen, there are just to many consequences I am not willing to deal with.