I got this message in an email. Dunno if it's real or if it's Internet BS:
I have a friend who is president of his homeowner's association down in Washington. They are having a terrible problem with trash on the side of the road that is around his association's homes. The reason according to Wallace (my friend) is, there is being built just next to them, six new homes.....big ones! Wallace said the trash is coming from the Mexican work crews working at the construction sites. (McDonald Bags, Burger King trash, etc). He has pleaded with the site supervisors and the general contractor to no avail, called the City, County, and the Police and got no help.
So..................guess what some people in his community did. They organized about twenty folks, named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is HILARIOUS !!!!!!!! They got some navy blue baseball caps and had the initials "INS" in gold put on the caps. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, however, to understand what they hoped people would think it means.
Well the day after their first pick up detail, with them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras; 46 out of 68, of the construction workers did not show up for work the next morning!!!!!!!!.............and haven't come back yet!!!!! It has been ten days. Now the General Contractor, I understand 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 INS folks, because they have it on their home owner association records the vote to form the new committee within their association, plus they informed the INS about what they were doing in advance, and the INS said basically according to Wallace.............."Have at it"! SO FOLKS, I THINK YOU COULD SAY THAT YANKEE INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds like fun to me. Community service in policing an area, and discouraging illegal actions, all in one swell foop!
Got me to wondering: What if I got a dark blue cap and a dark blue windbreaker jacket and had gold lettering saying, "MIGRA"? Fun, fun, fun for everyone! Walk into a restaurant and for the rest of the evening, folks would have to eat off paper plates. Paint a green stripe down the side of a white SUV and patrol the streets, looking for trash. Might be a shortage of yardmen, but folks who take care of their own lawns get much-needed exercise--which improves health, right?
Don't like the idea of a new subdivision coming near you? Tell the developer how you'll be happy to help him maintain a clean and neat appearance during construction. Do this before he gets approval of his plat, and he might go elsewhere.
There's just no end to it!
, Art
