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Taking scrap metal from curb can get you $414 fine

Scrap metal thieves looking for an easy score this week might be heading to the UW-Madison campus area to scoop up things left curbside by moving students, but the city said leave it be or you could be fined. The Madison Streets Division and Police Department are planning to patrol the streets in and around campus, looking for people taking bed frames, bikes, appliances and other metal items off the curb.