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Man allegedly stole 166 manhole covers
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| Jan. 25, 2013
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.
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:25:19 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
Manhole covers are freaking heavy! He did this by himself? I don’t think so!
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:29:16 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Mastador1
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:33:00 PM PST
by
EnigmaticAnomaly
(Dim Logic: "Let me vote Democrat. Hey, I got screwed! Let me vote Democrat. Hey, I got screwed!")
To: Mastador1
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:33:54 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:36:12 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Mastador1
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Who is this guy, Hercules?
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:47:27 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: jmacusa
He’s a Fink. His father was a Fink as was his father. All Finks.
Even if auto-correct insists they were Figis.
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posted on
01/25/2013 10:55:10 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: JoeProBono
Manhole cover... heh heh heh heh heh.
To: JoeProBono
Holee frickin Joseph Smith ....
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:07:28 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:12:23 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: JoeProBono
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.
To: Chad_the_Impaler
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:17:45 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Mastador1
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.
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:19:28 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
To: JoeProBono
He sure looks like a manhole lover.
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:21:16 PM PST
by
Bullish
(This usurper is leaving one hell of a poop stain on our Constitution)
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To: JoeProBono
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.
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:22:50 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
To: ansel12
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.
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:23:42 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Bullish
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
01/25/2013 11:30:56 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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