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| Patricia Kelley plck2002 | Re: YANKEE INGINUITY (PASS IT AROUND) | Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:49:52 -0700 (PDT) |
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Here's hoping that other communities will take heed and follow this example. If the government won't----we can if we are smart enough. Thanks for a good upper.
Sue Eskey wrote: NOW HEAR THIS!
YANKEE INGINUITY~
I have a friend who is president of his homeowner's association in the
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> >Washington, D.C. suburbs. They were having a terrible problem with
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> >litter near some of his association's homes. The reason according to
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> >Wallace (my friend) is that six very large, luxurious new houses are
> > >being built right next to their community.
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> >The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the
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> >construction sites and included bags from McDonalds, Burger King and
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> >7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty
> > >bottles,
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> >etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general
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> >contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the
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> >neighborhood, to no avail. He called the city, county, and police and
> > >got no help there either.
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> >So here's what his community did They organized about twenty folks,
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> >named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged
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> >to to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is
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> >what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.
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> > >They bought navy blue baseball caps and had
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> >the initials "INS" embroidered in gold on the caps.
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> >It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people
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> >might, mistakenly, think the letters really stand for.
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> >After the Inner Neightborhood Services group's first lunchtime pickup
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> >detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras;
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> >46 out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work
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> > >the next morning--and haven't come back yet.
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> > >It has been ten days now.
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> >The General Contractor, I'm told, is madder than hell, but can't say
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> >anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens.
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> >Wallace and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal
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> >personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in
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> >their homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the
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> >vote to approve formation of the new subcommittee--and besides, they
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> >informed the INS in advance of their plans and according to Wallace the
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> > >INS said basically, "Have at it"!
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> >SO FOLKS, I THINK YOU COULD SAY THAT YANKEE INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN!
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