[ConservativeStatement]

The manholes and pipes weren't laid? Holy double entendre, Batman.

[tet68]

Manhole gap stimies wonks.

[quantim]

The same way they lose grave sites at Arlington, this is not rocket science.

[mamelukesabre]

I have a manhole cover on my property the city claims doesn’t exist. it goes to a brick and mortar waterway big enough to drive a semi down. Yet the city claims that pipe don’t exist. Maybe i should go exploring?

[RachelFaith]

As they say, America does not have Money problems... we have SPENDING and ACCOUNTABILITY Problems.

[notaliberal]

And they want to control our healthcare!!!!!!

[TigersEye]

Stimulus ready jobs. No shovel needed.

[bleach]

Missing manholes? Have they checked South Beach?

[Secret Agent Man]

Easy. Travellers.

“Sure we’ll put that pipe in, we had some extra laying around from a job we just finished up the street.”

[gura]

I had a summer job in college inspecting manholes and sewer systems for a city. Even in a medium-size midwest town 100+ years of people building stuff underground and keeping shoddy records results in a lot of surprises.

[Stultis]

What? You expect a gubermint employee to scrape by on a mere $100,000 salary plus benefits? What choice did Martin King have but to commit massive procurement fraud?

At least Martin was paid in full during his leave of absence....

Ex-North Miami Beach official was paid $24,536 to stay home

[Bigun]

Corruption in government??? Surely you jest! SURELY!

[Tagurit]

All their pipes went down the tube along with the rest of the taxpayers money.

[Vendome]

Well, when you can’t find the hole you can’t lay pipe.

[Clioman]

Only a city official could be so stupid. The tunnels aren’t missing. The MONEY SPENT TO DIG THEM is missing. Stop looking for manholes. Start looking for bank accounts in the Caymans.

[wardaddy]

This sort of work was our family business worldwide for 30 years till my dad died.

Normally all your work is inspected by the engineer’s man (hired by city to design project) to sign on to billings you submit to the city for payment on a monthly basis.

And it is all very nicely blueprinted and I’m sure today computer located via GPS as well.

So either they lost all that or somebody got paid a lot of goodies to fake inspections for billings.

They might not have looked at every Manhole but they would know all the mapping and surface documentation and would have recorded that.

or it could have been paved over but usually that means raising manhole rims and they would not have paved over all of them.

this area used to be Accutero territory for the Luchesse family from NYC...but Tumac the daddy and the boys ratted on the family and all moved to Avery county North Carolina to live the life of mountain gangsters...which they do.

don’t know who plays there now

[MinuteGal]

"Holey smoke, Batman," said Robin manfully.

Leni

[OB1kNOb]

Put Barney Fwank on the case. He’s a professional at finding manholes.