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Old 09-12-13, 02:00 PM
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Drunk guys fix bike rack in "remarkable" act of reverse-vandalism

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Would have cost the city 3 months,$10,000 and mountains of paperwork to have them repair it......
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Would have cost the city 3 months,$10,000 and mountains of paperwork to have them repair it......
I was thinking the same thing.
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Notice how one acted as supervisor the whole time... thus maintaining the proper ratio of workers to supervisors on a typical city job.
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They took our jaaaaaaabz!

That could have kept 4 city workers employed for 2 days.
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With some creativity this could be put to excellent use. Cities could identify projects that could benefit. Then hire "designated drinkers" to hang around bars and bet fellow drunks a number of beers that they can't do "whatever". The object, of course, would be to lose the bet, getting all kind of things fixed for the cost of a few beers.
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Very nice. Perhaps in time they will graduate to picking up litter.
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Did they p!ss on it when they finished.
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