Posted on 01/25/2013 10:24:07 PM PST by 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.
That looks like a good start to a late night snack to me.
That’s not a manhole cover. It is a water meter cover. They use them to replace broken cast iron ones and for the new installation of water meters.
The small rectangle opening in the center is to allow access for meter reading and operating the valve. I have one.
How about this clown!!
Ever watch cowboys playing poker in the old westerns? Making hundred dollar bets and more and the average wage was probably $30 per month.
When we lived in Managua in 2004, there was a steady stream of trucks on Highway coming down the hill from the south and carrying scrap steel & iron. They were scouring the bushes for old cars, trucks, farm machinery, etc.
Unfortunately, the powers that be had decided to put a series of speed bumps in the middle of this long hill. One evening a semi load of scrap hit those bumps, lost control and hit a 10 foot high concrete wall near our neighborhood.
All that scrap came forward into the cab of the truck, which was now sitting on a small pickup truck which had been heading up the hill.
What a mess!
How much does a manhole cover weigh?
Great-great-great-great grandaddy too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fink
“Fink himself proclaimed on every possible occasion that he could ‘out-run, out-hop, out-jump, throw-down, drag out, and lick any man in the country.’”
‘Course, Anderson Cooper claims the same thing, at least the part about dragging and licking.
You realize that he may be working in different locations and positions during the day. Is it realistic for him to run through a “hard hat/protective footwear/protective gloves” checklist for every task. Put your hard hat on in morning and leave it on.
You realize that he may be working in different locations and positions during the day. Is it realistic for him to run through a “hard hat/protective footwear/protective gloves” checklist for every task. Put your hard hat on in morning and leave it on.
Maybe we shouldn't mess with him!
It’s a matter of leeverage-
-Jack Sparrow Pirates of the Caribean
Why aren’t they called person hole covers?
You realize it’s just a model for a staged photo, no?
Sure, but if he’d been wearing a Brooks Bros. suit, he would have been out of costume. The idea is to depict someone using it in a typical situation.
That’s the point. He’s dressed to portray an image but a hard hat is hardly necessary for installing a manhole cover.
Just an advertising play on stereotypes. It’s not that it’s necessarily bad; it’s just about the same as having an automotive technician with a smock or a “scientist”.
...where giant heavy disks are legal tender ...
Sure, we laugh. But if he’d found Saddam Hussein hiding in one of those holes he’d be a hero.
Nah, who needs tools? I obviously think he just walked down the street and lifted each one up between his thumb and forefinger and flung them, frisbee like, so that they landed as lightly as little feathers in perfectly aligned stacks in his back yard, miles away!
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