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> I have a friend who is president of his homeowners association in the Dallas, Texas suburbs. They were having a terrible problem with litter near some of his association's homes. The reason according to 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 construction sites and included bags from McDonald's, Burger King and 7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty bottles, etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the 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, named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.
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> They bought navy blue baseball caps and had 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 might mistakenly think the letters really stand for.
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> After the Inner Neighborhood Services group's first lunch time pickup detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras, 46 out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work 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 anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens. Wallace and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in their
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> Homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the vote to approve formation of the new subcommittee -- and besides, they informed the INS In advance of their plans and according to Wallace, the INS said basically, "Have at it!"
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> The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the construction sites and included bags from McDonald's, Burger King and 7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty bottles, etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the 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, named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.
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> They bought navy blue baseball caps and had the initials "INS" embroidered in gold on the caps.
>
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people might mistakenly think the letters really stand for.
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> After the Inner Neighborhood Services group's first lunch time pickup detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras, 46 out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work 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 anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens. Wallace and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in their
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> Homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the vote to approve formation of the new subcommittee -- and besides, they informed the INS In advance of their plans and according to Wallace, the INS said basically, "Have at it!"
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Hip-Hip Hooray. Hate litter bugs. I have chased them down. Once when my son 10 at the time, threw a pop can out the car window, I stopped the car and made him pick up litter for a mile as I drove along the shoulder. Does he litter, I don't think so.
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I fcking HATE littering! I can't throw trash down like that. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't.
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