Did HRM cut landscaping from their budget this year? The foot high meadows of weeds are lining our streets in excess. And the public parks are so high with weeds and grass, I fear we will lose the children who play in them.
Please HRM, break out the mowers before the missing pet signs appear and show us that you have some pride in how our cities look. —Urban jungle explorer
This article appears in May 20-26, 2010.
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so, what the fuck do you want us to do about it, get out and cut it ourselves. man, get fucking real here, will you. hrm is broke, haven’t you heard, they are going to seek welfare status next week.
Maybe HRM should just purchase some goats, and station them in different areas in HRM each day to “cut” the grass. It’s probably cheaper, and they’ll never unionize.
sorry i’m an idjit, my post was meant for the chocolate lake thingy…yes goats! pygmy goats and then we could milk them and make cheese and no shop stewards. excellent hollah
Public gardens look horrible! Dandelions everywhere!
Excuse me sir… what do you do?
Oh, I work for the city… I’m the goat herder…
that sounds a little wrong…
especially if you’re using the urban dictionary’s definition.
This could even be LS
There is a service wherein you can rent goats to clear out brush and such.
It would work, if you can stand goats.
Preferable to a good 80% of the bipedal populace of HRM and I AM being generous.
i think they smell better as well
And you get milk and cheese with the females.
Lawn Mowing is bad for the environment as they are pollutors.
Grass actually produces more oxygen then trees.
Mowed Grass is bad for peoples alergies.
I personally think the city should be allowed to leave some fields alone and not mow everything. It also saves money.
It’s comments from econuts that make me want to go out and get the biggest most polluting lawn mower there is and cut every lawn.
Actually, ytz is right… more often than not, most lawn mower engines have the sophistication of a 1950’s Buick. Not to mention, people don’t maintain the engines, so that as they age, they spew out more and more garbage.
Worst part is, people insist on having strains of grass like Kentucky Bluegrass for lawns, which require heavy amounts water and care to maintain, which makes things worse.
clover is the ticket. worked for our hill, when nothing else would grow
THey should just slowly year by year remove the grass & replace it with green asphault, concrete ormaybe green cobblestones.
Actually I agree with letting the grass go wild in many areas. Let us start by no longer mowing Citadel Hill, we gotta keep mowing the grass on the Commons, or the whining & moaning and goings on from the ball players will keep us all up nights. But there are places in PPP that I don’t believe need to be mowed, Seaview Park, stop mowing 50% of it.
Lots of more spots for birds & other little critters to live. It would be sort of like living in the country, a bit of mowed grass around the house & let the rest go wild.
There is no longer any grass on city property, as it has all become infested with dandelions thanks to the idiocy of weed and feed bylaws. So there is no sense in mowing it. The enviro-nuts see this as one small step towards their ultimate goal of making our lifestyle into that of a third-world country.
what the fuck is up with all this ad shit here. who the fuck wants to buy this crappy shit anyway?
how can the gov afford grass mowing devices when they are too busy buying flat screen televisions, generators and all sorts of other lavish toys. Just wait untill next summer….by then with the tax hike, they might find a little extra money to put towards the grass issues 😉
yea but Bo Gus now that there’s no pesticides in use mother nature will smile down upon us and forgive or sins and therefore were all NOT gonna die from carbon footprints or ddt poisoned toads or any of her other death scourges 🙂
Eco-druids make me want to do yardwork from a B-52. Snake & Nape, Daisy Cutters and tall ,cool glasses of Agent-Orange Crush.
ah a nice fresh cool drink of agent orange juice. ivan, you know how to live, brother.
No one ever got a medal for being uncomfortable Lifer. >; )
I’ve been pulling the dandelions out of my lawn – one. at. a. time. It’s painful – but a good way to take out my agressions. Evil buggers. HATE them, but too scared of the eco-mental-ists burning down my house for clandestine weed killer usage. Sigh.
Arson only contributes to the dreaded carbon footprint. They’ll just stage an “action” outside your house, maybe pelt your home with rancid fair-trade butter, and definitely chant something brilliant beginning with “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho…”
Arson would be less insufferable, absolutely less migraine-inducing.
Dear God, just another reason not to use weed killer… hey, hey, ho, ho…
HEY HEY, HO HO.
MINDLESS REPETITION HAS GOT TO GO.
THE PEOPLE, UNITED.
ARE STILL REALLY FUCKING STUPID.
I hate Hippies.