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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Plug the hole

I wouldn't go so far as to call it "America's Toilet Bowl" just yet but, in its own way, the neighborhood exhibits certain commonalities with the Gulf of Mexico from time to time. For example, a few years back we had a harrowing experience with a seemingly unstoppable gusher. And this summer, we've discovered a rapidly deteriorating hole in the ground that just gets scarier every time we look at it.

July 19
Hole in the road

July 22
Hole in the road take 2

July 25

Hole in the road take 3

So far none of these episodes has caused any insensitive whining from beneath anyone's million dollar golden parachute* but we'll keep an eye out.

*Tony Hayward's £600,000 pension works out to $934,867.15 right now. Not quite a million bucks but you always have to account for those famous BP understated figures.

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