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<text id=90TT1988>
<title>
July 30, 1990: American Notes:Los Angeles
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 23
American Notes
LOS ANGELES
Uncovering the Manhole Men
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<body>
<p> The disappearance of 300 manhole covers weighing as much as
300 lbs. each over the past three weeks had Los Angeles police
mystified. It seemed unlikely that tourists were swiping them
as souvenirs or that many people could easily use them as
tiddledywinks or Frisbees.
</p>
<p> Some Angelenos theorized that kids were filching the things
in tribute to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who use manhole
covers for shields. The least plausible idea was that someone
was stealing the covers for money. After all, a manhole cover
only commands at most $6 as scrap. Yet when the case was solved
last week, that theory proved right. Most of the missing covers
turned up at a scrap-metals yard, and cops collared two
culprits, dubbed the Manhole Men, with a pickup truck loaded
with more manhole covers. They were charged with grand theft
and receiving stolen property.
</p>
</body>
</article>
</text>