I’d like to THANK the charming soul who decided Sunday night that my back yard needed re-decorating, and proceeded to dump a load of freshly mixed concrete & sand in my alley.
In the middle of Sunday night.
Across the alley from a very nice dumpster and less than 15 feet from my own garbage can.
I’d like to thank Og for the rain that caused the mess to wash out into the alley.
I’d like to thank the charming soul that decided that it was intolerable to have this pile in MY backyard, and contact the city about the nuisance. On Monday morning.
I’d like to thank the very polite police officers who were dispatched with such rapidity to the sight of the carnage. The same police officers who take the length of an entire football game to show up when my home security system alarm goes off.
I’d like to thank the city for their new policy of arbitrarily deciding that a person’s back yard can be deemed a public nuisance, and that they will then clean it up, and fine you. Notification that they have determined the mess is a public nuisance is not necessary.
The cleanup/fine is assigned Tuesday mornings.
And there is no right of appeal.
And finally, I’d like to thank all of my neighbors for seeing me in the back alley with 2 small children trying to move a huge hunk of concrete, and their cheerful lack of anything resembling help.
Just blow by at 45 MPH down an alley. Never mind the pedestrians or children in the alley.
I should have put the chunk in the middle of the alley. At least then I could have enjoyed some fun…