Secrets of the City

Those scrap metal sellers must be desperate people. Stealing a Buddha statue. That’s a lowdown sort of thing that will come around on you.

These thieves will steal anything they can lay their rotten hands on. Nailed down or not. They stripped the copper plumbing pipes and electic wire out of some brand new townhouses in our neighborhood last winter. The fire department was called because some one smelled gas. They came in and shut off the gas and the police were called. The whole place could have blowen up if someone hadn’t been walking their dog past those homes early one morning. What part of town you live in makes no difference. These town houses were in the burbs

Those scrap guys will steal anything that isn’t nailed down. Surly Brewing just upped their keg deposits to $50 to stop people from selling their kegs to scrap yards.

They stole our neighbor’s metal lawn sprinkler. Cut the hose and ran. Called the cops on a couple of them digging through a dumpster one night. It had to be 15 below outside.

Common MO of crack addicts.

uh, not crack, I meant meth.

Smokers being demonized by the media!

Calling all non-smoking self-appointed defenders of Minnesota smokers! Maz and Rat, report to headquarters immediately!

An answer to this could be more litter receptacles. since The Law has expelled the from the indoors and forced them to huddle outside like exiles.

But they’re not smokers as much as they are litterers in this story.

I guess the best thing they could do is quit. Give up. Society has turned on you. You can’t fight it anymore.

Wonder who had to count all those cigarette butts?

As a smoker, I’d like to see more ashtrays, as well. When my work went completely smoke free (i.e. can only smoke on the sidewalk), they also disposed of the ashtrays, so, people either threw them on the ground or stubbed them out and threw them in the trash (which sometimes had started smoldering).

I commented in snark, but I agree totally with with the Rat & Cat. Asking people to step outside without providing them a butt bucket just invites cigarette liter. Employers, if you don’t have have a cigarette trash can in your outdoor smoking areas, please get one now. Are you listening, bars, restaurants and clubs?

Yes, some will quit after Oct. 1, but many are not yet ready. At least give them a place to properly dispose of their butts until they are ready.

I commented in snark, but I agree totally with with the Rat & Cat. Asking people to step outside without providing them a butt bucket just invites cigarette liter. Employers, if you don’t have have a cigarette trash can in your outdoor smoking areas, please get one now. Are you listening, bars, restaurants and clubs?

Yes, some will quit after Oct. 1, but many are not yet ready. At least give them a place to properly dispose of their butts until they are ready.

I commented in snark, but I agree totally with with the Rat & Cat. Asking people to step outside without providing them a butt bucket just invites cigarette liter. Employers, if you don’t have have a cigarette trash can in your outdoor smoking areas, please get one now. Are you listening, bars, restaurants and clubs?

Yes, some will quit after Oct. 1, but many are not yet ready. At least give them a place to properly dispose of their butts until they are ready.

I also agree with Rat on theft of the Buddha. Man, is karma going to do a number on them. If I don’t know the family involved, I know their clones — they used to live two doors down from us.

I’m going to keep a close eye on our neighborhood temple to insure nothing happens to their statute.

I also agree with Rat on theft of the Buddha. Man, is karma going to do a number on them. If I don’t know the family involved, I know their clones — they used to live two doors down from us.

I’m going to keep a close eye on our neighborhood temple to insure nothing happens to their statute.

Wow. My first thriple-post.

Sorry, y’all.

wisconsin boyz representing again! i’m so proud of you guys, you make me yearn for home.

Paging Craig Finn!

“Woke up in the grass with the assless chaps”