Posted on 04/03/2019 5:16:19 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A 12-year-old boy in Michigan has decided he's not going to wait for officials to fill the large potholes dotting a street near his home and is instead getting his hands dirty and filling the craters himself.
Monte Scott starting filling potholes last week using a shovel and dirt from his backyard in Muskegon Heights after he grew fed up with the state of neighborhood roads.
“I didn't want people messing up their cars like my mom did,” he told WZZM-TV. “If somebody were to drive down the street and hit a pothole, and then would have to pay like $600-700 to get their car fixed, they would be mad."
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Anybody remember an old TV show called “The Real McCoys”?
In one episode, that is exactly what they did. They filled a pothole in their street with concrete. It was a “little guy vs the government” episode thta was kinda interesting.
Not a smart idea when you throw in the safety aspect. I’m talking orange vests, safety cones/signs etc.
Wait, no you need at least 5 overweight slow guys with hard hats to stand around, block traffic and walk back and forth for a minimum of two days per pothole making union wage and only doing their permitted part of the job
Ain’t got no money for potholes.
We’ve gotta give those illegals welfare and medicare.
And free college.
He's going to meet with the governor, maybe something good will come from that.
Sounds like my story from 40 years ago. I grew up in Michigan and had a oiled dirt & gravel road leading to our house that would get potholes in the Spring and would bottom-out a car. As a 16 year old, I repaired some of the potholes myself. One day I drove around some of the potholes and got a ticket from an unsympathetic A-hole cop, which the judge was also unsympathetic. Used to call her “hanging” Allice.
“Anybody remember an old TV show called “The Real McCoys”?”
“Dag’nabit, Pepini!”
“Si, Señor Grandpa?”
Have they arrested the kid yet?
The governess is a full on socialist. That will be a photo op for her and a waste of time for him.
She ran on a platform of fix the roads and said they wouldn’t need to raise taxes to do it. Of course, a couple months in, she was proposing massive gas tax increases.
I spent 45 years in Michigan and now live in Maryland, thanks to the policies of the last socialist female governess. At least they are openly corrupt and stupid here.
Can he come out and help Philly and our kenney road kraters?
I’ll take that as a yes. :)
BTW, you can stream it free right now on either Amazon prime or Netflix. I forgot how good that show was.
And it is on high quality film so we see it clearer today than people ever did in the past. I’ve noticed that with a lot of those old TV shows. And it allows you to see obvious flaws in the sets that a regular TV would have obscured.
somebody’s got to do it - cause it sure ain’t this Detroit road crew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMdfviFlkE
A most beautiful place.
>https://wallowalakelodge.com/scenery
Trying to discourage folks who want to right what “governmental forces” do wrong? Didn’t look like a major artery and if the kid is able to think at all, he knows to look both ways and not wait for the bumper of a car.
Exactly.
In many places u are required to hire town-approved contractors to do any repair to sidewalks, curbs, etc.
Fines await
Back in the 70’s a Pennsylvania jokester started planting pine trees in the pot holes at night. It got so much news coverage it shamed the politicians into getting them fixed.
We just spray painted big white rings around them.
Muskegon Heights, the city where this story is about, is one of the most if not the most liberal parts of west Michigan. Think little Detroit. Think all kinds of federal money being spent on entrenched bureaucrats and bureaucracy and none of it trickling down.
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