He says he stopped by his property in Farmington Hills with plans to move it this week. "It was gone,” said Cortis. He says it is more than a structure to him.
His dad made the bridge decades ago. “My heart dropped. I felt lost,” said Cortis. “It has sentimental value.” Cortis says he planned to set up the bridge at his catering business for wedding pictures.
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He says he is hoping someone returns it. If they don’t, he is counting on help from the public and Farmington Hills Police to get it back. “If we can get it returned, the police investigation is over,” said Cortis. "If not, it continues on.”
Update: Many thanks to Miss Cellania for pointing out that the bridge has been recovered undamaged.
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It's probably scrap metal already.
No doubt.
The question is: How exactly does one steal a 40 foot 5000 pound bridge?
With an element of difficulty I should imagine.
Good news! The bridge has been recovered intact. http://kdhnews.com/news/odd_news/pound-bridge-stolen-in-michigan/article_3185e30f-2007-51f8-9982-cf3d4f06d20c.html
Thanks for that, Miss C!
5000 pounds ! That's about $7500 I think.
And why it has 40 feet holding it up confounds me.
Ah, the good old U.K. and the good old U.S.A. the only countries on earth that still use archaic measurements.
NO, hang on, the UK went metric !!!
And it's 3 countries that are still backward, Liberia, Myanmar and yes, the nutters that make up the USA.
Surprised they switched to electricity actually.
Leagues, chains, furlongs, acres, feets, yards, miles, gallons, pints, quarts, pounds, shillings, pence, halfpenny, farthings, quid, guinea.
So so 1963.
http://www.zmescience.com/other/map-of-countries-officially-not-using-the-metric-system/
Hahaha, William Rocket!
To be fair, the UK's never really gone properly metric.
I know you've embraced this new-fangled metric thing now that you live in New Zealand, but I bet if you still lived in the UK, you wouldn't be so au fait.
Everyone still uses miles, the only way I can equate a kilogramme is by imagining a bag of sugar and I've never been able to fathom what a litre is relative to a gallon.
Oh, and you forgot grouts. :)
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