I'm on board...even though I love the band ads...had many evenings of fun
from those ads...but they look terrible...I don't mind them in the
commercial areas but in front of my house? Yesterday I was driving on
Douglas and hit the stop sign at Kenwood Parkway in south
Minneapolis..."work at home"...it made me laugh...! They are all over the
place....
I'd organize my neighborhood if we could get a day to go out and clean the
poles...! Remember we need to get years of staples out of the poles too!!
Or at least try...Small issue but after all the difficult and thoughtful
issues that get presented here if feels good to have one I can help with
tomorrow!!! Let's plan a revolt....I'm on board...anyone else...? Spring
is coming might even be fun!
-----Original Message-----
From: David Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mpls list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [Mpls] Snipe advertising
>OK, I admit this is not as serious a problem as the affordable housing
>shortage but...
>
>I have an urban pet peeve: Snipe advertising.
>
>It's graffiti's kissin' cousin, illegal ads you see stapled to telephone
>polls. I'm generally cool with garage sale ads or obviously local things
(as
>long as they come down after the sale), but what really steams me are those
>increasingly gigantic corrugated plastic signs that advertise LOSE WEIGHT
>NOW or EARN BIG BUCKS FROM HOME. (The friggin' Coast Guard even tacked up
>snipe recruiting posters on Nicollet this winter.)
>
>Visual pollution to the max, and advertising stupid/dangerous/deceptive
>stuff besides (Coast Guard excepted).
>
>Is it me or is snipe advertising exploding around the city? (Once you get a
>pet peeve like this, you notice the stuff everywhere.)
>
>I'll admit, I am a snipe vigilante. If you notice a snipe-free zone from
>40th to 46th on Nicollet and Grand, well, I'll take credit. (Of course, if
>what I'm doing is illegal, that last sentence was written by my evil twin.)
>On my neighborhood walks, I regularly rip or wrestle this stuff down. It's
>getting tougher; snipers use these rivets with plastic washers to attach
>their signs to poles, and tend to put 'em up high, so you have to reach up
>and rock the sign from side-to-side to get the rivets to pop out. Since I
>walk for exercise, I view this as extra calisthenics.
>
>Now that I've outed my Charles Bronson self, a few questions for those in
>the know:
>
>1. These plastic come-on signs ARE illegal, right?
>2. Is a "citizens arrest," i.e. removing them, legal?
>3. Is anyone at the city responsible for taking them down (such as Solid
>Waste, as with graffiti)?
>4. Has anyone ever been prosecuted? Some of these folks must put up
hundreds
>of signs
>5. When do these things go up? Dead of night?
>
>I've also fantasized about staging a "Stamp out Snipe Day," where everyone
>around the city would pull these suckers down, a la an Urban Spring
>Cleaning. I don't know if we could offer a bounty, or maybe give everyone
>with a ripped-down sign a free ticket to a concert or something.
>
>Anyway, thoughts for a snipe-free spring...
>
>David Brauer
>King Field - Ward 10
>
>
>
>
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