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Robbing Mumbai to Pay Peking

Judah Grunstein | Bio | 16 Jun 2008

The first I heard that New York City's manhole covers were made in India was in this offhanded TPM post by Josh Marshall last November. Now it turns out that Indian-made manhole covers are being stolen (from America, but also from Europe and Mumbai) because of the Peking Olympics. 2point6billion.com's got the details, including what to do about the safety risk of open sewer manholes.