Stealing Manhole Covers

All right, we may have reached a new low as a race. There was a story yesterday about a group of people stealing manhole covers to sell for scrap. Can you imagine walking down the street and falling straight into the sewer because the gent before you lifted the cover?

A couple of years ago a man was cutting off parking meters to steal the change. How many of those babies do you need to hoist to get ten bucks?

It just goes to show you that there are a group of people out there who can't make it here anymore. Minimum wage is what? I should be able to memorize it as it hasn't gone up in about twenty years.

The Buffalo News has been writing stories about poverty in our own backyard. Buffalo supposedly ranks as one of the poorest of all cities. Is it possible to turn it around?

I don't know? It seems to me that it must be a lot of work to lift and lug manhole covers. Perhaps those people could find suitable employment. I know the men who paint graffiti on the sides of boxcars could make it as artists, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards, right?

People stealing gas - taking right out of the cars parked in your driveway. Chopping off parking meters, stealing copper from abandoned buildings, and now manhole covers.

God help you if you have gold in your teeth - keep your mouth shut or someone might be coming for it.

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