This manhole cover was made in India and is covering a manhole in the United States. No wonder we're running out of natural resources and destroying the Earth with pollution.
Manhole Cover Made in India; Why?
- Related Content by Tag
- Humor
This manhole cover was made in India and is covering a manhole in the United States. No wonder we're running out of natural resources and destroying the Earth with pollution.
ROFLMAO! I didnt believe you when I read the text alert on my phone.
Yeah, I walked over this every single day, as it was on the sidewalk near where I work. Every time I walked over it I wanted to take a picture and wished I had a camera on my phone. Now that I have an iPhone, that’s the first picture I posted using it. 😀
sweet haha
HI. I took a “manholecover” class in NYC at the Science and Industry Library (SIBL) Turns out for a while in the 60/70’s the USA wanted to improve economic relations w/India so they assigned an “economic development” package for India to make manhole covers for the USA (a lot for NYC). Then people started to complain about “exporting” jobs so now they are back in USA making the covers. There is a movement in NYC to help preserve manhole covers from getting paved over.
Wow, that is awesome information! I knew there must be a story behind it and that definitely explains a lot. Now it makes me wonder what kind of history that little manhole cover has… how it made it’s way from India, to possibly NYC, and then finally Boston.
I never knew a “manhole cover class” even existed! Learning something new by the minute! 😀
Thanks k.t.!
Oh boy, more “save the world from capitalist industrialism” disinformative liberal BS.
India and other “3rd world” nations buy decommissioned American, Asian, European et al Naval and Merchant vessels, strip and recycle the wiring, cut the steel up with acetylene torches and recycle it into items like….manhole covers!?
How does an Indian-made manhole cover in the US equate to “running out of natural resources and destroying the Earth with pollution”?
Hmm, because it took the burning of natural resources (which contributes to pollution) to get a single 300LB hunk of metal across the planet…