... the two short term parking signs we spent $38 on that were made into garbage by a passerby yesterday or the day before at 6th & Columbia had been replaced with $58 in short term parking signs made of the same brittle material, whatever the hell it is. Actually, Mathew Signs identifies our sign material as being made of "Dibond," the latest high-tech, unrecyclable crap we should all be excited about and which f'n AI refers to as a "brand name aluminum composite material (ACM) featuring two pre-painted thin aluminum sheets bonded to a solid polyethylene core. Known for being lightweight, rigid and durable, it is popular for [among several things] signage, resisting warping and corrosion." Rigid? Durable? You don't say! Is Hudson's future in Dibond? AI also claims that polyethylene -- a fantastic form of toxic plastic -- "takes roughly 450 years to decompose," about as long as it will take Parking Captain David Miller and Parking Chief Mishanda Franklin -- with zero crime to concern themselves with -- to get our parking system straightened out and truly "running great" so that they can retire and finally relax.
Pictured here are both sides of one of today's two sign replacements done by HPD and DPW about as quickly as you can spell POLYETHYLENE correctly, showing that the latest short term parking signs are double sided, just as HUDseen said they would be a few hours ago. Let's see how long the two fantastic plastic $29 short term parking signs last before they need to be sent to a landfill and replaced with yet more $29 disposable polyethylene pieces of toxic garbage. Think SHORT TERM, not LONG TERM! Short term, like all disposable crap is! Perhaps very short term! Weeks or months, not years! Maybe days, if we're lucky!
We can only hope that HPD is doing everything in their power to gather surveillance camera footage to find out who snapped those two signs off of the meter poles. Perhaps Chief Franklin has her best detectives working overtime on the case! Since there is no longer any crime in Hudson to worry HPD, what else do HPD's four detectives have to do all night and day? Twiddle their thumbs?
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| Excluding the clamp between the pole and the sign (which I am having difficulty getting an invoice for), WE the people have spent $48 in signage on top of this meter pole at 6th & Columbia in the past one month. |
What do you suppose was going on 450 years ago in what we now call America? Probably not much, but the humans living here certainly weren't producing toxic garbage for several future generations so that they could park their automobiles for an hour or two, were they?
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