tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079789370166858944.post2529025352425054238..comments2023-10-31T09:21:38.183-03:00Comments on Sugar and Spice: To Catch a ThiefAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340834139819735298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079789370166858944.post-64504191049540700402007-06-02T13:09:00.000-03:002007-06-02T13:09:00.000-03:00One other thing. Those city sewer gratings also ge...One other thing. Those city sewer gratings also get robbed. In fact, right under my gratings there is one that is almost undone. I don´t know if it was by the same people that have taken mine but chaining them together has just added another deterrent that wouldn´t stop a pro but would just make it a little more troublesome, a little more work and require a little planning and forethought.<BR/><BR/>We get visited by countless inspectors of every type. They leave with the impression that we are truly trying to do everything correctly. Not only do they leave impressed but actually a little proud that there exists another responsible model factory in Argentina. No need to worry. The city is very active in going after factories and spotting trouble in the streets. I have run into just about every type of inspector there is.<BR/><BR/>I better stop. As you can see I can talk hours about this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340834139819735298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079789370166858944.post-34503420433697161512007-06-02T12:59:00.000-03:002007-06-02T12:59:00.000-03:00Oh, by the way, those gratings flip up and out of ...Oh, by the way, those gratings flip up and out of the way. The city has come by to clean the sewers and no problem. They just flip them up and their done.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340834139819735298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079789370166858944.post-19212004109189621542007-06-02T12:58:00.000-03:002007-06-02T12:58:00.000-03:00Hi 99,I was actually going to comment about those ...Hi 99,<BR/><BR/>I was actually going to comment about those yellow tubes since I have those at home.<BR/><BR/>When I first came here I thought they were awful. Since my neighborhood has become so popular I had to install them becuase of the countless times people would park their car in front of my driveway leaving my family stranded at home. It is not fun putting your kids in the car, with plans in their head of going somewhere and all of a sudden finding the surprise that you can´t get out becuase someone parked in front of your driveway. If you are going to the movies okay you can get in a cab. If you are planning a trip out to the suburbs (el country) then youre whole day is screwed.<BR/><BR/>I talked to the police countless of times and they could only shake their heads, offer an apology and write a ticket to the offending cars and offer an apology. They know my house becuase I would call them every 10 minutes until they would send a car so they got to send the cars pretty quickly so they would not have to hear from me.<BR/><BR/>The city came by once to cut them down and I remember arguing with them to no avail. I was in a rush and had to go to a meeting. My neighbors were more efective than me since they stood out there and would not budge. When I got back that afternoon guess who was the only one in the block with those poles cut? The next time they come around I am cancelling whatever meeting and chaining myself to those poles if I have to.<BR/><BR/>Don´t get me wrong. I would love to not have to use them and if they had tougher laws and even the capacity to tow cars away from my driveway I would be out there cutting them down myself. But the fact is that they don´t have the full equation figured out yet. They don´t have all the citizens protected and you just can´t have half measures put in place. So legal? Was it legal to only pick and choose which poles they cut down? Is it legal to leave me on my own to be victimized every weekend with nothing to back me up when people park in front of my driveway? On my block there is also an old folks home that is frequented by ambulances and they ran into the same problem as me. Countless of times I would see them arguing with people that blocked their driveway leaving no access for the ambulances.<BR/><BR/>No offence taken 99 but someone, somewhere hasn´t really put a whole lot of thought to this problem. Another thing, I am sure you and I both agree that these are problems that should be looked at and addressed because you do not want to leave a segment of your population just out there unprotected.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340834139819735298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079789370166858944.post-61333518419682898042007-06-02T12:40:00.000-03:002007-06-02T12:40:00.000-03:00Hola Frankie sugar, no offense please, but what yo...Hola Frankie sugar, no offense please, but what you´re doing is not legal. Those yellow stoppers I mean. <BR/>And the rest, man, you´re just leaving your personal property in the street... which is a public space and not part of your building. That´s the law in BA. Even the trees belong to the City. Check it out with your architect.<BR/><BR/>So don´t expect much more than leaving a purse with money on the sidewalk overnight...<BR/><BR/>Why don´t you try some removable ramp each time you need to use it? There are some plastic very resistant ones at Easy.99https://www.blogger.com/profile/07143493617807864880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079789370166858944.post-28265701763418194302007-06-01T16:23:00.000-03:002007-06-01T16:23:00.000-03:00Definitely an amateur. A professional would certa...Definitely an amateur. A professional would certainly have had a pair of bolt cutters on hand. I would have thought that there wouldn’t have been much profit in scrap iron. Better to wait for the next power cut, and harvest copper wire (but making sure the bolt cutters have fiberglass handles …).<BR/><BR/>As a stop-gap measure, you might consider using sand bags (they’d be useful anyway to stop the fall leaves clogging the drains and cause potential flooding when the rains come (again).<BR/><BR/>JohnSFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846379168854781828noreply@blogger.com