On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:14:19 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

You ready to take it int he shorts?

Who needs Vaseline when you're going to get the barbed wire-wrapped-
around-the-broom handle treatment.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,4274002.story

Hey - try living in CT.

We used to have medium security prison tustees cut the highway grass
and to the little things like trash pickup - saved a ton of money. Now
the DOT does it - to keep the Union drivers "busy".

Oh - even better. Used to be that the mowers and such used to work on
their own - put up signs, stay in the median and mow. Sides of the
highway, they used a pickup with a flash rack and directionals -
worked just fine - no accidents.

So now that we have a budget crisis and might have to lay off DOT
workers, they use their trucks - six of them - in a row - idling all
day - two workers per truck who sit and watch the mowers mow.

Supposedly improved "safety".

Yeah, right.