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Two men in the US have been charged with cutting up a steel bridge and selling it for scrap. How - and why - did they do it?

When the two men showed up at the scrap yard in Pennsylvania with chopped-up steel beams and grating, nothing seemed initially suspicious.

After all, it is not unusual for men to show up with hundreds of pounds of metal in the back of a pick-up truck, an employee of the yard tells the BBC.

But the following month, police determined the men had stolen the steel from a bridge in an isolated wood in rural Pennsylvania, and people familiar with the scrap metal business and theft cases say it may be the first reported case of a bridge being cut down, stolen and sold for scrap.

With scrap metal prices at or near historic highs - in part due to voracious demand from China for use in domestic industry - police across the country and people in the scrap metal recycling business say the US is suffering what is almost an epidemic of metal theft.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15344442