Americans Growing Increasingly Desperate

And the trend is spreading.

clipped from news.yahoo.com Mich. cities say hundreds of manhole covers stolen FLINT, Mich. - Officials in Flint, Mich., say they've had to replace hundreds of manhole covers and grates that were probably stolen and sold for scrap. The Flint Journal reported Monday that nearly 400 cast iron covers and grates have been taken from streets in the past year. A cover can fetch $20 from a scrap yard but can cost the city more than $200 to replace.