Being the amazing, true-to-life adventures and (very likely) misadventures of a writer who seeks to take his education, activism and seemingly boundless energy to North Minneapolis, (NoMi) to help with a process of turning a rapidly revitalizing neighborhood into something approaching Urban Utopia. I am here to be near my child. From 02/08 to 06/15 this blog pushed free speech to the envelope, so others could take heart and speak unafraid. Email me at hoffjohnw@gmail.com
Thursday, November 26, 2009
We Burn "We Buy Houses" Signs...
On Sunday, I put together a last-minute father/son activity with my 12-year-old, Alex: we went around collecting the "We Buy Houses" signs littering the grassy boulevards of NoMi. My blog post about this activity actually made the Twin Cities Daily Planet, hooray.
Well, it's Thanksgiving and I have visitation with my son AGAIN. We'll be enjoying our Thanksgiving with the fine men and women of the Fourth Precinct but, in the meantime, we thought it would be fun to have a little bonfire. So we burned the signs and roasted some Peeps.
ADDENDUM: The signs are cardboard. The wood is not laminated. And, oh, the dog is inside a fenced yard.
For the record.
(Do not click "Read More" but DO help clean up the boulevards of NoMi)
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9 comments:
Awesome!
How ridiculous...haters.
How ridiculous...haters. I agree
u suck and ur a waste of time for making this blog
OK I GET IT, KEEP THE STREETS CLEAR OF SIGNS THAT CAN OFFER A SOLUTION TO HOMEOWNERS THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL TROUBLES CONTINUE TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THE BANKS AND BRING DOWN THE VALUE OF EVERYONES HOMES. HOW ABOUT JUST BURN DOWN THE HOMES INSTEAD.?
While you grow up you are going to understand that Real estate Agents are workers who need the money for their families. You are destroying someones work instead of creating something for your own. When you were an adult you will take shame for your behavior.
Obey the law and keep your crap-tastic sign spam off our boulevards.
Most billboards break the 200 feet law(too close to highway)are you going to cut those down too?
Um. Most of these "We Buy Houses" outfits are scammers who steal what equity financially-pressed and panicked people have in their homes. They are preying on the vulnerable and desperate.
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