Litter bins, manhole covers, copper cables and memorial plaques have been targeted, as well as sculptures.
Transport and Technical Services will replace damaged manhole covers and resurface parts of the roads.
"Ergen throws around nickels like manhole covers, " says Clelend, referring to the executive's legendary parsimony.
Buenos Aires is plagued by thefts of telephone cables, manhole covers and ornamental plaques.
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Customer Mollie McGregor, 77, was injured after she fell down a manhole at the shop on 15 January 2009.
And kicking the can down the road on the deficit may see that can go down a manhole cover very soon.
Other robots in the pipeline include a manhole inspection and repair robots.
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The Old Port and the city centre will be cordoned off, litter bins removed, markets closed, manhole covers welded and sewers searched.
But the trail, in this case, is intriguing: Someone lifted a heavy manhole cover and climbed down several feet to cut the cables.
Police said they also wanted to speak to anyone tampering with items at the side of roads after the disappearance of manhole covers.
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Meanwhile, North Wales Police are appealing for information after a spate of thefts of manhole covers and scrap metal from roadsides on the island.
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Spurred by the 2007 raid, Knollwood solved its backup problem by cutting a new manhole and clearing a buildup of lime, grease and sludge.
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One poor girl was reportedly killed when a firecracker underneath a manhole cover made it fly up and strike her head (some explosive power, that).
That may or may not prove to be accurate, but can you imagine securing every trash can, every manhole, every nook and cranny from Hopkinton to Boston?
He told the court he and his grandson Stephen had lifted a manhole cover in the shop so they could check what was causing the plumbing problem.
Rescue workers are searching sewers and under manhole covers.
Initially, it established relationships with utility companies so it could, for instance, request that a power company seal a manhole that provides access to a key power line for a government agency.
Drains and manhole covers lifted in a number of streets, including Magna Road and Coniston Avenue in Bear Cross, Nuffield Road in Poole, Commercial Road in Bournemouth and Burts Hill in Wimborne.
But just a year later, the discovery of human remains on a bank tower roof and then in a manhole near ground zero outraged families who said the search for their loved ones had been rushed initially.
Sky-high metals prices combined with the weak U.S. economy in recent years have led brazen thieves to strip copper wire out of vacant homes, swipe stainless-steel beer kegs from bars and even make off with manhole covers, street lights and parts of fire hydrants.
"The finding of this landing gear, " he said, "just goes to show that we need federal people in here to do a comprehensive, full search of lower Manhattan to make sure that we don't get any more surprises, " as happened in 2007 when body parts were discovered in nearby sewers and manhole covers.
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