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.
Looks like a typical upstanding, law-abiding citizen to me.
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I can’t imagine hitting the open hole with a car......major, major damage.
See Post #5
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“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!”
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.
lol on the pic of Anderson Cooper creeping near a man hole.
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!
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