Holy Hole Hatches
It's the coveted Blessed Manhole Cover of Sticking +1:
Hauling out a manhole cover ain't no joke; those things are bloody heavy. But then I am constantly amazed at the amount of work lazy people will engage in so that they don't have to go to work.
In the parking lot outside our shop is a large bin, like a dumpster but longer, in which we throw scrap pipe, hangers, fittings, etc. Technically, there's a company who comes by to haul it off once a week. The reality is that they never get the chance, because the local non-working types (our shop is in De Ghet-TO) will come "steal" it every night. Note that it's locked behind the parking lot gates and quite a distance from the street, so they have to schlep each piece of metal -- some of it weighing hundreds of pounds -- over the gate by hand. That's a lot of work for a few bucks of steel scrap. I'd bet if you calculate out their time, they're making less than minimum wage.
Several weeks ago, someone came into the lot and cut the catalytic converter out of one of the trucks. I don't know if they wanted it for the metal or as a replacement for their own vehicle, but you can get a cat for that particular vehicle for about $100, while the one they stole was from a six year old truck. It'll probably fail a few weeks after they install it. But I'll give them credit for workmanship: they used a torch and made very clean, neat cuts. It had to have taken a half hour to cut it out, plus all the time spent lugging the torch around.
Working hard to avoid hard work. That's why they're thieves: they ain't real bright.
Town Hall officials have asked priests to bless all the manhole covers in their town to stop them being stolen by scrap metal thieves.
Councillors in Lodz, Poland, replaced all 4,000 of the town's manhole covers after the new ones had been blessed at a church service to keep them safe.
Hauling out a manhole cover ain't no joke; those things are bloody heavy. But then I am constantly amazed at the amount of work lazy people will engage in so that they don't have to go to work.
In the parking lot outside our shop is a large bin, like a dumpster but longer, in which we throw scrap pipe, hangers, fittings, etc. Technically, there's a company who comes by to haul it off once a week. The reality is that they never get the chance, because the local non-working types (our shop is in De Ghet-TO) will come "steal" it every night. Note that it's locked behind the parking lot gates and quite a distance from the street, so they have to schlep each piece of metal -- some of it weighing hundreds of pounds -- over the gate by hand. That's a lot of work for a few bucks of steel scrap. I'd bet if you calculate out their time, they're making less than minimum wage.
Several weeks ago, someone came into the lot and cut the catalytic converter out of one of the trucks. I don't know if they wanted it for the metal or as a replacement for their own vehicle, but you can get a cat for that particular vehicle for about $100, while the one they stole was from a six year old truck. It'll probably fail a few weeks after they install it. But I'll give them credit for workmanship: they used a torch and made very clean, neat cuts. It had to have taken a half hour to cut it out, plus all the time spent lugging the torch around.
Working hard to avoid hard work. That's why they're thieves: they ain't real bright.
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