We Get Mail: The Missing Planters
FFFF received an email yesterday from one of our readers. I reproduce the text below:
FFFF, I was at the UP Park “community event” on the 13th. I read your post about the event and I have to say it brought some things into focus. Why were we doing the last thing first? It seemed cooked up.
Anyway, what I want to find out about is the status of the wooden raised garden bins built that day. They were supposed to be used for a community garden and now they have completely disappeared from the park.
Why?
Did the City take them away? Were they stolen? Where are they?
Hey, the Friend is right. Here’s the area where the alleged “community garden” is supposed to be. I took the picture yesterday afternoon.
And here’s the image from the Big Party.
The answers to the questions are unknown. I imagine the bins were removed by the City. But why? To protect them from graffiti? From theft? Geez, that would be a bad omen for the success of the park.
Were they in the way of the contractor now that the “Volunteer Futility” is over? That speaks volumes to the insincere quality of the community event.
You have to wonder about the sincerity of the City toward the idea of a community garden, especially from the Parks department people who would have to deal with the managerial headache with no extra budget, no extra manpower, and zero upside for them.
Anyway, if I can find out where the bins are, I’ll let our reader know.
Just make-work organized for photo-ops. I would not be surprised if we never see those “bins” again.
You’re right. Parks people do not want something they can’t get paid for.
“Work will set you free.” The NAZI Party (also Zahra and Charles)
If it made sense it wouldn’t be Fullerton.
There should be some sort of law about fooling the ignorant into being props in your photo-ops.
A community garden is a 100% guaranteed failure. Who runs it? Who gets a planter? What’s the fee. Who collects it? How do you keep vegetable thieves out?
Where does the water come from? Who has a key to the water outlet? Who pays for the water?
Who monitors upkeep and maintenance?
Who the Hell is repsponsible for anything?
you seem to not know the concept of a community garden
1. the community
2. whoever wants one
3. there is none
4. you mean small animals? usually you put up small fencing
5. the park
6. what key
7. the city, how much water do you think is being used?
8. the community
9. the community
Most community gardens aren’t in public parks.
Actually, they are.
Exactly. Nobody is in charge.
Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
Missing bins? The horror!!!
What no selfie by the weeds from the self righteous Zahra?
The planters have been removed for safe keeping from vandalism or theft.
They why build them at all if you know they’re unsafe?
They aren’t unsafe. The fuckin park is unsafe.
“I was there for a while but I couldn’t help because of my bad back.”
Wow.
I just can’t.
I would have bet they were stolen already.
“Work will set you free.” Another commonality between Zahra, Charles and the NAZI Party.
your brain must be broken if you are comparing planter beds to the nazis
Perhaps they were removed so they could be stained and the inside water sealed to help prevent dry rot damage and make the planters last a little longer.
Perhaps. Then why make them now?
Some dumb ideas look better on social media posts. Be on the lookout for Ahmad’s.
Yeah. Because I always move my fence to another location before I paint it.
What an idiotic argument.
Yes, and then you get the pleasure of moving it back to where it was to begin with!