Drawing peniseses around the potholes apparently also works. With enough penii, usually the local government is embarrassed enough to actually prioritizing fixing shit.
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I lived in a town once where people started planting little flower gardens in them.
Wanksy is a hero
lmao
In texas I was thinking we need to start spray painting rainbows on them since the state government has such a hard on for banning them on roadways
I think there's an actual term for that kind of activism, but I can't recall what it is.
It's one of those situations where the government won't do something about a pothole or maintenance issue, and there's endless committees and paperwork, but when it's "vandalism," they rush in and "fix" it.
"Muh property value"
I mean, that's the impetus in many cases lol
But for real, there's a word or phrase that was coined specifically for drawing a dick (or something else) on a pothole/crack/broken thing to get the city to fix it.
This is P.A.R.C. (Portland Anarchist Road Care). I did some stuff with them in 2017. Good folks
in the past people like this have been threatened with lawsuits from their municipalities because the rogue road worker might not be using the right slurry, fix the water leak beneath it, et cetera.
but good on them for trying to help out the hardworking wheels, front forks, and suspension of the people.
At some point the gov is spending more effort stopping public works than doing them and at that point they lose the battle of public opinion lol
I understand that sentiment, but if the potholes are deep enough to sleep in, all that shit shouldn't matter
That's just more incentive for the gov to fix them properly.
And tonight, when I dream it will be
That the junkies spent all the drug money on
Community gardens and collective housing
And the punk kids who moved in the ghetto
Have started meeting their neighbors besides the angry ones
With the yards
That their friends and their dogs have been puking and shitting on
And the anarchists have started
Filling potholes, collecting garbage
To prove we don't need governments to do these things
And I'll wake up, burning Time's Square as we sing
"Throw your hands in the air 'cause property is robbery!"
This site may be a hellhole, but it's a hellhole that likes Wingnut Dishwashers Union and that's good enough for me
Who is going to notice if you just show up as someone dressed officially to fix the hole and you aren't?
Hi-vis vest, covid-style face mask, sunglasses. Best of both worlds.
If they existed I wouldn't be dressed up
Black clothes are cheaper
Yes, but less people are going to call the police on someone in a high vis vest doing road work.
True and I suppose if the police catch you so long as you have a theater lighting cue sheet in your back pocket you can always claim you are a techie on the way to work.
Just leave out the part about it being avant garde theater where the stage is the street, the performance is what naturally occurs upon it and set changes involve repairing the stage from damage done in previous acts.
Or don't!
Holy shit I think I lived a road or two down from that street for a while. Pretty sure this is near the paul bunyun, lot of anarchists in that area would hang out at the punk bar I'd visit.
Great thai place in the area if you live nearby OP
Back in the '60s, student disability activists in Berkeley poured their own kerb ramps, which at the time were rare to nonexistent, and often badly, even dangerously placed; and their efforts drew so much attention that it embarrassed governments into making intersection cutouts standard.
Ten year old article btw
There would be money to fix holes if Portland politicians didn’t spend it on meetings and vacations.
Hell yeah