Once the rhetoric toned down, these guys were hired by someone to do
this. However one of the guys seemed like
he might be an investor. The other guy was latino and the sign
announced "habla espanol". He took a photo of me - believe it or not
so that he could show his patron that I told him not to do it.
I saw another one nailed into a maple near the 48th & Baltimore trolley
stop. I think whoever hired these guys should dipped in organic
stick-um and covered with crushed pieces of these styrofoam signs.
It might be a good idea to find out who is at that number and have them
fined for nailing these signs on to trees.
Joe (I don't scare easy, baby!!) C.
Bill Sanderson wrote:
You were lucky - yesterdays NY times reported an editor, in a similar
altercation, got knocked down and his camera trashed.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/illegal-signs-and-a-reporters-b
roken-camera/index.html?hp
Bravo! I take these down when I can manage it, both in terms of time and
physical dexterity--but I've yet to catch anyone putting them up.
(and I mean signs on poles, not on trees.)
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:16 PM
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Subject: [Ucneighbors] Nailing Advertisements to Trees
I caught a small work crew preparing to attach a sign to a sycamore on
Baltimore Av opposite the Coöp. They had a step ladder, a white pick-up
truck and a bag of blue & white signs for one of those "We buy Houses"
enterprises. I went over and stopped them and almost had an altercation
as they were about to drive the first nail. I told them that this was
illegal and that they weren't to continue. The one fellow got in my
face a bit, with a "Who are you!!". I told them it was clearly
illegal and that they weren't even allowed to put them on poles, let
alone nail them to trees. The crew chief told me that they had the OK
from the city to do this. I told him that even if he did get an OK from
the city, it was still illegal. We weren't fighting with each other at
this point and that was good. I did get the number from the sign which
was a 917-806-4442. I walked over to Jim Roebuck's office and let the
young woman know what was going on. The crew chief dropped Jim and
Jannie's name as if he knew them (and by association) knew what he was
doing. The secretary at Jim's office said that she would call to report
this to UCD. Hope everyone keeps their eye out for this. I haven't
seen any more of these signs along Baltimore.
Joe (Ent) Clarke
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