Steel stealer in big trouble
A man seen stealing steel plates from a Chesterfield, Indiana business Sunday was able to evade the police, but now he is wanted for more than just theft.
Sunday afternoon, a foreman at local business HECO saw the two suspects loading steel plates into a red pickup, albeit not very skillfully, as the plates fell out of the truck shortly after the truck sped away.
The foreman called the police and tracked down the owner of the red pickup from the license
plate, whose owner, 50-year-old Carl Cohen, quickly 'fessed up to the theft and told police where to find the other suspect, 47-year-old Daniel Snemis.
At Mr. Snemis' home, the police were not able to find Mr. Snemis, but they did find 451 grams of marijuana growing in his closet.
The clumsy criminals will both be charged with felony theft and Mr. Snemis will be charged with felony drug possession.
Ever thought about living in a steel house?
According to a recent article in a Philadelphia newspaper, it might not such a bad idea.
Builder Raleigh Renfree says that while it might take awhile for US homebuilders and architects to embrace the idea of steel houses, the trend has already started, as some architects are designing steel roof structures using steel as a complementary component of building exteriors.
The benefits of a steel home are weather resistance and a shorter
construction time, since they are easier to build than concrete buildings.
Mr. Renfree says that while you might think that the temperature inside a steel house would get steaming hot during the summer months, this is not the case. A chief architect of steel homes in
India, where they are quite popular, says that steel houses are actually cooler in the summer than a concrete home because the smooth, aluminum-
coated walls reflect more light and heat, and the architectural design always includes an appropriate roof pitch to reduce solar heat in the interior.
The steel building enthusiast leaves the reader with the question: "Do you want to be the first on your block to build a steel house?" - a question which, of course, you can only ask yourself if you do not belong to a Home-Owner's association.
Outdoor cooking enthusiasts rejoice
At the National Hardware Show, which will take place May 9 through 11 in Las Vegas, the company Grate Chef will unveil its innovation in outdoor cooking:
Stainless Steel Wipes.
The wipes, while safe to use on all
stainless steel surfaces, are designed specifically to clean and polish the
stainless steel surface of your outdoor grill, so that you can awe your neighbors with your grill's lustrous shine.
While most wipes require you to dry surfaces with a towel after use, the company claims that
Stainless Steel Wipes do the entire job in one step, saving time for the three out of four US households that own a grill (Why it wouldn't save time for the fourth is unclear).
Grate Chef co-owner Mike Griffin explains the story of the wipes: "Grate Chef had already introduced Grill Wipes, which clean and lubricate the grates of a grill for the ultimate grilling experience, but this didn't help with a grill's exterior appearance. This is how
Stainless Steel Wipes came to be."
For more information about these wonder wipes, you can check them out at the National Hardware Show which will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The Steel Menagerie
A parade of giant steel animals has begun its 800-mile journey from Buffalo, New York to St. Louis, Missouri this week.
The animals, designed by sculptor Albert Paley and fabricated by Klein Steel Services of Rochester, will stand at the entrance at the St. Louis zoo, serving as the world's largest public zoo sculpture.
Thursday, a Buffalo-area trucking company began hauling the animals to St. Louis, starting with a two-ton steel rhinoceros, an elephant and a giraffe chained upright on flatbed trucks. More trucks are scheduled to depart next week to haul dozens more of these steel creatures to their destination.
Sisters steal $89K from US Steel
Police in West Chester County, Pennsylvania, have arrested an area woman for cashing her mother's worker's compensation checks from
US Steel for the past four years.
Attorney General Tom Corbett said that 55-year-old Sylvia King was continuing a fraud started by her sister in 1998, the year of their mother's passing.
Together, by forging their dead mother's signature on her checks, the sisters fraudulently obtained $89'000 from
US Steel.
Ms. King appeared in court Wednesday on charges of theft, fraud and forgery, and was released on $25'000 unsecured bail.