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pahunkboy -> City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal (5/26/2011 9:47:32 AM)

City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal


Back in 2009, the city of Pittsburgh paid $250,000 for 250 elegant iron trash cans weighing more than 200 pounds each. Critics of the mayor called it a waste of city funds at the time, but they are very nice-looking. Now 20% of them are missing, and it took police and the public works department four months to figure out where they've gone. They were hauled off and sold for scrap.



DesFIP -> RE: City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal (5/26/2011 10:57:00 AM)

The recyclers knew they were stolen and bought them anyway. Those are the people the cops should go after. Around here, metal recyclers call the authorities when suspicious copper comes in.



SternSkipper -> RE: City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal (5/26/2011 1:53:04 PM)

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Back in 2009, the city of Pittsburgh paid $250,000 for 250 elegant iron trash cans weighing more than 200 pounds each. Critics of the mayor called it a waste of city funds at the time, but they are very nice-looking. Now 20% of them are missing, and it took police and the public works department four months to figure out where they've gone. They were hauled off and sold for scrap.


Let me know when you blame Obama for this and I'll come back[:)]



DomImus -> RE: City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal (5/26/2011 3:12:48 PM)

They steal manhole covers for scrap down here. Municipalities have taken to welding them in place. 



xssve -> RE: City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal (5/26/2011 10:31:05 PM)

Yeah, all the aluminum manhole covers in town disappeared overnight recently.



pahunkboy -> RE: City Paid $1,000 For Metal Trash Cans, Thieves Sell Them For Scrap Metal (5/27/2011 9:28:17 AM)

I read somewhere a thief is rippping up rail road tracks.



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