It was lights out for one section of Kansas City after copper thieves struck.
Kansas City is now working to find a way to pay for the damage done to city street lights.
The City Manager estimated the copper stolen from city street lights brought in a few hundred dollars but the damage was exponentially worse.
It's pitch black along Searcy Creek Parkway.
Alongside the winding road are trees that are home to wildlife, including deer.
Robert Taylor, who lives near the outage explained, "[Deer] pop out, you can't see them. Most of the time with lights, and without it's even more dangerous. Sometimes there are people that come in with their headlights, their headlights don't work. That's a really dangerous thing."
The city manager tweeted out estimating the repair could cost $500,000.
Outage due to copper wire theft. A $500,000 fix for only a few hundred dollars in copper. https://t.co/cG00nHwdb9
— KC City Manager (@KCMOManager) January 9, 2016
"That's a lot. And everyone that's worked for it. It's coming out of everyone else's pockets to fix it," remarked Shelia Burnworth who lives near Searcy Creek Parkway.
Taylor added, "Now that's going to go straight to our taxes, we have to pay for these thieves and that's just not right."
It's not clear when the city will be able to repair the lights.
The service report shows they're working to find money to make the repairs somewhere in the budget.
