Man allegedly stole 166 manhole covers

upi ^ | Jan. 25, 2013

[JoeProBono]

POINCIANA, Fla.,- Authorities in Florida said they arrested a man accused of stealing 166 steel manhole covers and attempting to sell them as scrap.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said Christopher Fink, 40, was arrested Thursday after the Toho Water Authority reported $22,000 worth of manhole covers missing Wednesday in Poinciana -- and Fink was caught attempting to sell the covers at local metal dealers, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.

Fink was charged with felony counts of grand theft, dealing in stolen property and giving false verification to a secondhand metal dealer.

The sheriff's office said more charges are possible against Fink, who has been arrested six times since October 2011.

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[Mastador1]

Manhole covers are freaking heavy! He did this by himself? I don’t think so!

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

kill him

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

[jmacusa]

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Who is this guy, Hercules?

[tumblindice]

He’s a Fink. His father was a Fink as was his father. All Finks.
Even if auto-correct insists they were Figis.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Manhole cover... heh heh heh heh heh.

[Vendome]

Holee frickin Joseph Smith ....

[onyx]

ROTFL.

Neck art...UGLY!

[LibWhacker]

Fink, 40, was arrested Thursday after the Toho Water Authority reported $22,000 worth of manhole covers missing Wednesday...

Wednesday? At 500 lbs a pop, that's about 42 tons worth. Must've raided the Manhole Cover Store and loaded up his big rig with them. Sheesh... A lot of work for one guy working one night.

[JoeProBono]

[ansel12]

I have dealt with many manhole covers, it amuses me that in the movies they remove and replace them as though they are made of 10 pounds of wood.

[Bullish]

He sure looks like a manhole lover.

[F15Eagle]

Good thing he has that hard hat on!!

[ansel12]

charged with felony counts of grand theft, dealing in stolen property and giving false verification to a secondhand metal dealer.

So...false documents are still illegal in traditional situations, I bet they weren't even federal documents.

[Mastador1]

Yeah it’s easy enough to crush a finger or toe with two people, I just don’t see one guy getting away with it that many times without injury.

[LibWhacker]

LOL

[JoeProBono]

[ansel12]

I always meant to buy a hook, but instead always used a thick screw driver to start it.

When you are alone like I almost always was, it is easy to imagine unpleasant happenings, including getting both hands pinned, while all the fingers are broken, it was always a little nerve wracking to lift them, especially at 2am in quiet areas.

[JoeProBono]

[onyx]

ROTFL.

Christopher Fink’s mother or his accomplice?
She’s very pleased!

[TigersEye]

He was simply building an addition to his home.

[Hugin]

Or carry big bags of gold around like loaves of bread.

[ansel12]

I don’t get it.

[Daffynition]

What 166 manhole covers might look like.

[onyx]

LOL. You counted?
Oreo’s!

[Daffynition]

Mr. Fink is clearly not guilty. Even if his case goes all the way to the Supremes, he can continue to claim it was a religious expression and had to do with rituals related to the Mayan calender celebration and the end of end times.

[Liberty Valance]

[ansel12]

Interesting, plus it calls “manhole” covers, “access” covers, which is still grossing out the dude in post 9.

[Liberty Valance]

[Daffynition]

[FredZarguna]

Imagine a half-gallon of milk. That is roughly two liters (actually a bit less.) A bag of gold that size has a mass of 38 kg. (~83 lbs.) They toss gold bags around in the movies like they're full of flour, which is actually lighter than water.

[FredZarguna]

So, that’s 299, which gives 1.8 Oreos per male pie hole. Is that metric or English?

[ansel12]

Thanks guys, I have noticed the gold thing before (many times), but I didn’t notice it to that extent, nor always.

I knew that gold was heavy, but I just never put it all together as THAT heavy.

Thanks Hugin, sorry I missed it.

[onyx]

LOL. I cheated. Accidentally read your tagline!
You’re the best!
God bless and keep you, dearest FredZarguna.

[FredZarguna]

giving false verification to a secondhand metal dealer.

They wanted Capone SO badly on that rap, but had to take a plea down to tax evasion.

[FredZarguna]

[Daffynition]

Farsi. Actually. ;)

299، که به 1.8 Oreos در هر سوراخ پای مرد

[Daffynition]

Send in the clowns.

[driftless2]

Looks like a typical upstanding, law-abiding citizen to me.

[BwanaNdege]

Neat idea!

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes

Railcar Mover

[Hot Tabasco]

I can’t imagine hitting the open hole with a car......major, major damage.

[BwanaNdege]

See Post #5

Tools are our Friends!

[BwanaNdege]

“I can’t imagine hitting the open hole with a car......major, major damage.”

In Managua, Nicaragua, on the 6 lane divided highway going to the airport, they had a open rectangular manhole that looked about 3 feet by 5 feet. It also looked 4+ feet deep.

Thankfully, it was in the center of the middle lane and I managed to straddle it the first time I saw it.

“REMEMBER THIS SPOT! REMEMBER THIS SPOT!”

[JoeProBono]

Manhole cover, drinking water Manhole cover, dated 1997, Reparto San Juan, Managua. Compared to the older manhole covers here in Nicaragua, all of a sudden this one is in plastic and from Texas. Now that tells you something, I guess.

[JoeProBono]

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[DouglasKC]

lol on the pic of Anderson Cooper creeping near a man hole.