Thief Stole a Roomful of Parking Meters

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on August 30, 2008 at 1:32 pm


There are money sitting out on the streets for the takin’. Or so thought 34-year-old Maurice Mizrahi, a desperate drug addict who got money for his fix by stealing … parking meter!

Mizrahi has been seen wandering Brooklyn streets, smacking meters to hear how much change they contained. When he found one full of quarters, he would knock off the head by grabbing it and spinning it away from its base. Then he’d run home for a shopping cart to carry it away.

It was the same crime that Paul Newman’s character went to prison for in the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke."

"We have to figure out how the hell he did it," a Department of Transportation source said. "This is crazy. He was doing some major work." A full meter can hold up to $70 in change, and they cost up to $700 to replace.

Kerry Burke, et al. of The Daily News has the story: Link

(Photo: Showalter / Daily News)


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6 comments to "Thief Stole a Roomful of Parking Meters"

  1. mu
    August 30th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    It is all about change...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZ8zNpwZak

  2. seekshelter
    August 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    the punishment for this crime should be a garbage bag full of boiled eggs...

  3. SenorMysterioso
    August 30th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    I didnt know meters were so easy to knock off their poles

  4. Peeves
    August 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    yeah me neither..all he did was spin it with his hands? i'm never going to look at another meter the same again.

  5. raffles
    August 30th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Keep on working that way, guy. The more you steal, te less we pay.

  6. Uggaboo
    August 31st, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    I knew a lot of people that did this when I was living a different life...It's not so rare and actually turned out to be a satisfactory part of making money for drugs..They used boltcutters to cut off the heads and yes shopping carts are the more intelligent ones would actually make crude copies of the keys that let them have as much acsess as the original copies. Those were genius, although I do not agree with it of course :) .


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