It’s silly because rather than threatening to prosecute people who dump trash there illegally, it threatens to prosecute the trash itself. Either that, or it implies that anyone who hangs around there is trash, and that only school trash will be tolerated.
Ft Lauderdale bank on the drivein ATM which had a sign “No walk ups all persons must be in a vehicle to use this ATM” and there was braille on the screen of the machine!
Blind people can ride in cars, you know.
Ain’t sure about dumpsters, but I was in the portable toilet business for decades and every once n a while one of those got stolen, and When we bought out a competitor as we went thru his inventory we had bought back 5 of our stolen toilets. We also found one out on a lake in the dead of winter being used as an ice house with our name still on the side. I drove out and loaded it up and took it back, put a new floor in it and sent it back out on rental
Cholesterol-free! on a sack of potatoes.
I withdraw my claim of silliness. Apparently, people steal dumpsters.
They did the same thing at the Pyongyang airport in 2009.
I once saw a guy walking around downtown Pittsburgh wearing a bikini.
Yeah, that’s my favorite. It’s like, I sure as hell hope so! That’s why I bought it!
This guy: Norristown Dancer - YouTube
I used to drive by that corner every morning on the way to work and he was nearly always there, with his headphones on, dancing, and waving to traffic. He was always on that corner, but he would sometimes be facing Markley Street and sometimes Main. That was about a year and a half ago. I have no idea if he’s still doing it since I changed jobs and no longer drive by there.
Here’s another of the same guy, this time facing Markley Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LAvjHu0gwY
Actually he’s facing Markley in both.
That was my take on it. I envisioned a scene in which a bunch of scummy-looking teenagers are hanging out smoking cigarettes, when a truant officer comes up to them and says, “Hey! You kids can’t hang out here, get lost!”
“But we go to school here!”
“Oh. In that case, carry on.”
There’s a tobacconist near here. It has several big signs above the door and windows saying So-and-So Tobacco, whatever the name is, professionally painted and quite large.
It also has a little A4-size B&W laser printed Word document stuck in one window that says “We Sell Tobacco”. I sometimes wonder what had to go wrong in order for the owner to think 96 point Arial was the solution.
I’m going to stay far away from anyone who can do that–I picture a muscleman picking up a dumpster and walking off with it! :eek:
In the county clerk’s office there are small wooden trays with signs, “DO NOT TEAR IN HALF.” Anyone who can tear a wooden tray in half is someone to avoid!
In the restroom at the laundromat I used to frequent there used to be a hand-written sign that said, “Do not put anything down the toilet.” Eventually, they upgraded to a professional looking plastic sign with engraved white letters. It said, “Do not put anything down the toilet other than tiny pieces of paper.”
That’s an improvement, I guess.
One year, in our oceanfront room in Seaside Oregon, we would sit at the window and watch people walk by on the Promenade (like a boardwalk, I guess, but all concrete). When we heard the click, click, click in the distance, we knew who it was: that guy with the cane, which he was using to navigate, because, apparently, he was blind. What was perplexing was the rather nice-looking SLR camera hanging upon his chest.
Never did see him use it.
When I was with Oakleaf Waste Management I chatted on the phone with a manager for a drugstore location in the US Southwest as he described a single guy with a chevy S-10 pickup singlehandedly managing to load a bale of cardboard onto his truck. [at the time it was as I recall about $100US per ton] Took the guy half an hour, and the guy should have properly called the cops, but he figured if he could get it onto his truck he deserved it. [he apparently skid it up a pair of boards set as a ramp with some sort of jury-rigged winch system. Very enterprising.]
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But the newly printed paper stuck to the window shows its a recent statement…The writing on the windows or up above may be archaic…
Well you see there are many people who have limited vision… not totally blind… not totally good…
Maybe nothing went wrong at all, perhaps o the shopkeeper may wish to advise they sell the product tobacco ,and only cigarettes and cigars… well what can go wrong is that they might not be allowed to display the product.
Maybe there’s some poorly thought out regulation that says that sellers of tobacco must state that they do so in a window.
That’s not silly. “Silly” is owning an ATM factory, and having two sets of machines (or machine setups) for making faceplates, one for drive throughs, one for walk-ups.
ETA: same thing with restroom signs, actually.