Bad part about that the piece of shit thief will sue the home owner for the broken ankle
There was an incident in Northern Va a few years ago, a group of high school kids cut a hole in the chain link fence to get into a stone quarry. One of them ended up falling down into a section of the pit and got hurt. They sued the quarry and won.
We would leave a large reel of fiber in the ditch so as not to cut it and we could carry on the next day.