My apologies...someday I'll get all the rules right, but obviously not soon
since this is the second time I've goofed...still interested thought in a
day to "clean snipe advertising"!
Kim Carlson
Bottineau
-----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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