AUSTIN GENERAL 21 RE INTERESTING ARTICLE ON STREET SPAM
From: Jim Riley (jimrtex@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Interesting article on street spam
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:54:00 -0500


On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:39:30 GMT, "Steven (remove wax for reply)"
<spamtrap@no-spam> wrote:

>Mayor Brown appears in some public service announcement that I have >seen on TV at 2 a.m. where he sits among a group of school children >and talks about how bad they are. I don't remember whether he >encourages viewers to just pull them up, or call the city.

That does wonders for their self esteem.

>I tried to call the city, a couple of times. Long time to answer the >phone, voice mail. So I decided that I would just pull them up >myself, and I still do if I have the time. Early this year an >apartment complex put them down the median of the street, and I pulled >up about 25 of them one afternoon.

They'd probably just got off the school bus.

>My wife and daughter are afraid that somebody's going to see me one >day, and either call the cops or confront me. So I don't do it when >they're in the car with me.

Hurrah for your wife and daughter.

-- Jim Riley