Ottawa police have arrested a man they said went on an unusual crime spree: stealing flushing mechanisms from toilets across the city.
Police say during a five-month span beginning in January both manual and electronic flushing mechanisms began disappearing from the bathrooms of restaurants, shopping malls, hospitals, medical clinics and other private businesses.
The mechanisms each have an estimated value of $100 to $1,000, police said.
Police charged a 51-year-old Ottawa man with 24 counts of theft under $5,000, 24 counts of mischief to property under $5,000 and 24 counts of breach of probation.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/06/14/ott-toilet-thief.html#ixzz0qx7tCglQ
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