A resident of the Volga Federal District's Orenburg region has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service for disassembling a floating bridge and turning it into a metal recycling plant, the region's Prosecutor General's Office said on Thursday.
The local farmer, 55, was found guilty of theft by a civil court.
"According to investigative reports, the villager decided to disassemble and turn in to a metal recycling plant a floating bridge that connected the village of Beloshapka and the so-called Chabanskaya Tochka, a cattle grazing area in the Gaisky region," a spokesman for the regional Prosecutor General's Office told RIA Novosti.
The spokesman said the villager got help from others to disassemble the bridge, which took them two days, and received 40,000 rubles ($1,306) from metal recyclers in the city of Novotroitsk.
ORENBURG, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
