Have you ever heard of the utility meter being stolen?

[Skye Anderson]

Myself and a partner have a SFH under contract in St. Louis, MO (this is a long-distance transaction) that we intend to purchase as a buy and hold. We just learned yesterday that they were unable to do the municipal inspection because someone had stolen the meter. Has anyone ever heard of this before?

It seems awfully suspicious to us that it disappeared the day before the municipal inspection. What are your thoughts?