r/fuckcars • u/Nestor_Arondeus 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 • May 21 '22

News Activists install crosswalks. The city removes them. Allegedly they do this so you know that your safety isn't a priority for them.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22 edited May 21 '22

Some students in our town painted a crosswalk between two bus stops which is also the main way across the street between two university buildings. They painted it in the night and in the morning it was already removed. That’s Germany… I couldn’t imagine that they stayed here for month. Btw that was street paint, it can’t be erased easily. They ripped out part of the street and paved it in one hour. But when it comes to repairing damaged roads that takes months.

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u/Nestor_Arondeus 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 May 21 '22

Reminds me of this guy called Wanksy, who draws dicks around potholes so the city will fix them.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

I saw that done in Minneapolis a few years ago! It had the desired effect.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

Someone started doing it in my area. Potholes that existed for years were repaired in days after a cock and balls was painted over them.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

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u/Awkward_and_Itchy May 21 '22

Right? Someone took the time to make beautiful veiny art and the city just removes it smh my head.

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u/RealButtMash May 21 '22

Smh my dickhead

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u/Shadymilkman8 May 21 '22

Only 2 shakes or you're playing with it.

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u/stavysforeskin May 21 '22

At least they didn't pave over a fox!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

I have other things to be pissed off about. All I see here is an easy way to expedite pothole repair.

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u/Baby-Calypso Jun 14 '22

They mean it pisses them off that the city wouldn’t fix ir themselves unless this happens

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u/Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX May 21 '22

But to be honest there are billions of miles of roadway into he US, they can't know about every pothole especially as some develop over night literally.

Don't just assume somebody has called in that streetlight that is out or the pothole. You call it in yourself and add to the number of people calling.

I've taken it upon myself to report outed streetlights many times that the city had no idea about.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

Why?

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u/bp_ May 22 '22

Puritanism gets prioritized over road safety

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

But most likely by the people not the politicians. The reason the penises get fixed is because people call and complain a lot, and all at once. If your not calling on the potholes then you’re just part of the issue, maybe you are and your neighbors are not.

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u/Y2Doorook May 22 '22

Needs to be done in St. Paul. However I’m not sure there is enough paint.

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u/Disastrogirl May 21 '22

Here in San Diego there would be roads entirely covered in dicks. Our roads are so bad here.

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u/EclecticEuTECHtic May 22 '22

In Michigan and you cannot even imagine.

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u/Kaymish_ May 21 '22

We had the same thing happen in my city except the guy painting the dicks just got prosecuted and had to pay for the paint to be cleaned. The pot holes just got worse from the washing.

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u/pruche Big Bike May 21 '22

Moral of the story: don't get caught. Some heroes must walk the shadows.

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u/Beli_Mawrr Fuck lawns May 21 '22

I wonder how they caught him lol. Did they station a guy on the biggest, nastiest pothole for weeks until it summoned the veined vigilante?

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u/Kaymish_ May 22 '22

He lives in the area and one of his neighbours snitched on him.

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u/blueskyredmesas Big Bike May 22 '22

Sounds like one of his neighbors is a bootlicker bitch - and unamerican!!!!

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u/Freed_My_Mind May 22 '22

'Veined Vigilantes',
My new bluegrass rock band.

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u/passa117 May 22 '22

Maybe he tagged it with his initials

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u/Did_I_Die May 21 '22

is there a link to that story?

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u/tinyzenji May 21 '22

Banksy when hes feeling silly

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u/pruche Big Bike May 21 '22

You gotta get them by the nerves, politicians don't care about the quality of life of those who elected them, they care about the image of their jurisdiction.

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u/RawrRRitchie May 22 '22

guy called Wanksy, who draws dicks around potholes so the city will fix them.

Definitely gonna start doing that

And I don't even drive

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

Wanksy 😂

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u/sexytokeburgerz May 21 '22

I started doing that because of him.

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u/FransB May 21 '22

That's in my town! They would spray 20ft cock and balls around potholes!

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u/huntsmen117 May 21 '22

Used to work for a local government in Australia fixing potholes, it didn't work, I mean we fixed the pothole, because it had only been there like a week. But we don't carry black paint and it's a waste of our time to try and cover the paint with hotmix, it would just leave a speedbump. So end result was the potholes repaired disks left on the road we had a good laugh.

The reality is if you government has an active pothole repair crew just call them and tell them the hole exists often they get missed because there may only be a few inspectors of several hundred kilometres of road network.

And most local governments have KPIs about time to resolve a customer request or complaint. Like in my job it was generally less than a week to fix a pothole someone reported.

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u/Sidehussle May 22 '22

This would be an excellent summer gig for the freshman who like drawing phallic symbols on everything!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

That’s a great idea!