I have a friend who is president of his homeowners association in the Dallas , Texas suburbs. They were having a terrible problem with litter near some of his association's homes. The reason according to my friend is that six very large, luxurious new houses are being built right next to their community.
The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the construction sites and included bags from McDonald's, Burger King and 7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty bottles, etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the neighborhood, to no avail. He called the city, county, and police and got no help there either.
So here's what his community did. They organized about twenty folks, named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.
They bought navy blue baseball caps and had the initials "INS" embroidered in gold on the caps.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people might mistakenly think the letters really stand for..
After the Inner Neighborhood Services group's first lunch time pickup detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras, 46 out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work the next morning -- and haven't come back yet.
It has been ten days now.
The General Contractor, I'm told, is madder than hell, but can't say anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens. My friend and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in their homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the vote to approve formation of the new subcommittee -- and besides, they informed the INS in advance of their plans, and according to my friend, the INS said basically, "Have at it!"
SO, FOLKS, I THINK YOU COULD SAY THAT TEXAS INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN!
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6 comments:
Hang the builder.
god bless texas!
Remember the Alamo!
LOL! Good for them!!!
And they did it without stimulus money?
Seriously, you really believe this happened? People spending their own money to buy the gear, taking the time to organize, plan and come up with a name, and then taking personal time to patrol an area. For Pete's sake, have you seen who is in the White House? Have you read the new taxes for 2011, have you read what the health reform bill will do......Americans are sleeping on the job. Of course they love a story that romanticizes a group of patriotic americans taking action and all they have to do is FORWARD AN EMAIL. Give me the name of the city, name of the homeowners association, and tell me to take action.....not read, laugh and click a mouse!!! It's a false story keeping american asleep at the mouse. And quite honestly, there are too many Mexicans in Texas for this to have really happened...
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