To the left of this highly informative sign are houses and I'm betting they were built by Elliot Homes. Hmmm?
To the right is a city park with mowing strips and at least 3 soccer fields and a lighted softball field.
Right in the middle, near the street is a smallish puddle of gray water with iridescent white bubbles. There are oddly bent meager-looking fish in the water. On the other side of the street from this 'sensitive area' is a huge racquet club.
Now what part of this strip of land between houses and soccer fields is environmentally sensitive? God knows I have nothing against houses or sports fields. After all, I live in a house and my children have enjoyed the use of these fields over the years. But WTF is up with that sign? It's like putting a sign in front of a shark declaring it's an elephant. They should tell the truth. Something like this:
"No Trespassing because if you electricute yourself or fall into smelly water and drown, we do not want to be held responsible in a lawsuit. This is a narrow bit of land we couldn't develop due to power lines. It collects run off from people's chemically infested lawns and parks. We called it 'environmentally sensitive' in the plans so we could get a break on our developer fees from the city because we're showing just how much we care about the environment."
They probably felt sure that no one would walk past the grim gray water with the disordered fish and feel their sign was total rubbish.
They were right I suppose. If I had to look at this sign everyday, I might be tempted to knock it over.
11 comments:
Hah, you're so much more eloquent than those nincompoops.
you gotta be kidding!!
Perhaps it's 'evironmentally sensitive' because that's were all the spent fuel rods from the nuclear power station are buried...
I think the builders who constructed every last inch of these atrocities, um, well, they occasionally recycled their Mountain Dew cans after their lunch breaks.
The environment should stop being so sensitive and grow up already.
I'll do an update on Make Diesel Read a Book eventually....
val- believe it
jay -thank you, isn't it ridiculous?
kris- I wish I was
EOH -wellll...they did shut down Rancho Seco which is fairly close by. You might be on to something. If you could see those poor fish. They're very weird looking.
jocelyn -form before function perhaps?
diesel -I know, silly environment.
Give me a break. You know what you should do? Print off this blog post and mail it to the city, photos and all.
jojo -hey, great idea! -doubt they'd care...:(
Then send it to the media. You KNOW they'll care; they love to take shots at local govt.
Same shit happens in every town. No one cares, not even the media.
If people went to their city council meetings instead of sitting on their asses they'd know what kind of crap goes on day after day like "wetlands mitigation", a euphemism for how developers have to get projects built on their OWN property by being forced to get down on their knees and blow enviroweenies.
Telling it like it is.
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