Florida men caught with stolen power pole strapped to SUV

Kinja'd!!! by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 09/14/2017 at 16:59

Tags: Florida
STARS: 4


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“The report says [the driver] told investigators he was moving the pole because it was on the ground so close to traffic lanes. A database search found [he] had 72 scrap metal-related transactions for recycling since January.”

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Replies (13)

Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
09/14/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 3

I can think of better and worse things to loot

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/14/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 3

Certainly less obvious things.

Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
09/14/2017 at 17:13, STARS: 2

They might have gotten away with it if they hadn’t added the flagging.

Kinja'd!!! "CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
09/14/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 2

Safety first!

Kinja'd!!! "user314" (user314)
09/14/2017 at 17:21, STARS: 3

Florida Man: not the hero we need, or the hero we deserve.

Kinja'd!!! "vicali" (vicali)
09/14/2017 at 17:31, STARS: 3

There’s a long story behind that pole..

Kinja'd!!! "cmill189 - sans Volvo" (cmill189)
09/14/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 3

The truly sad part is the recycling place would have likely accepted it. When the police came to check on it several weeks later their excuse would be, “Sorry, we don’t have a way to verify where the scrap brought in by meth heads comes from.”

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/14/2017 at 17:33, STARS: 0

I have no doubt they would have taken it. Money is money.

Kinja'd!!! "haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
09/14/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 1

They might have gotten away with it if they hadn’t added the flagging. it weren’t for you meddling kids.

Kinja'd!!! "Chinny Raccoon" (chinnyraccoon)
09/14/2017 at 18:39, STARS: 1

Glad to see Florida Man has returned from his European Vacation.

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Kinja'd!!! "gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
09/14/2017 at 21:27, STARS: 1

trying to find the article. my buddy went to highschool with this moron, who decided to steal a bronze plaque from the town square. A 200+ lb plaque. so the idiot goes to the scrapyard, the guy plainly sees its a plaque and goes “im going to have to call my manager on scrap on shipments over $500, so if you can just sit down’ meanwhile hes texting “call the cops now” .

Kinja'd!!! "So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky" (badams109)
09/15/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 1

During college we had a hurricane and some guys at my school noticed one of those huge 4 light tall, 4 direction, stop lights that hangs at the center of an intersection had come down. They proceeded to load it into their van, drive back to campus, haul it up a flight of stairs to their small dorm room. One wonders why. Unfortunately for them a cop had seen them loading the van and followed them back to campus then waited until they had struggled and strained to get this multi hundred pound thing up stairs. The cop knocked on their door and told them to take it back to the intersection where they got it and leave it on the side of the road or he would arrest them for theft. So they got to do it all in reverse but at least they didn’t get arrested and the city had one less obstacle in the road to clear

Kinja'd!!! "pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
09/15/2017 at 09:56, STARS: 1

Florida - says it all

at least they put a rag at the rear for safety.