Los Angeles has rejected an entrepreneur’s cheap and simple fix to stop the city’s crippling copper wire theft crisis. End Metal Theft spokesman Mark James revealed to the California Post it had created a hardened cover that secures streetlights and would stop neighborhoods being plunged into darkness. The device, which fastens over the lid to the wires, would make it harder, louder and far riskier for criminals to try to gain access. They would cost about $300 to install, are easily maintained