{"id":258,"date":"2010-01-17T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2010-01-16T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T17:41:33","slug":"laminated-street-poetry-or-weird-political-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leon.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Laminated street poetry, or weird political statement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of scaffolding in New York City. Its everywhere. For bike riders, like me, scaffolding is often a very convenient form of bike-rack. So you often see bikes chained to scaffolding. And you also see signs telling you not to chain your bike to scaffolding.<\/p>\n

But what’s up with this one?
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One presumes that this is telling you not to chain your bike to this scaffold. But there’s a reason for the existence of punctuation. Although this sign is, I must admit, relatively clear, line breaks are not really punctuation (Or are they? Argument anyone?), so technically: “DO NOT CHAIN BIKES TO SCAFFOLD WILL BE REMOVED AT OWNERS EXPENSE” is like the title to an art installation or some kind of neo-haiku.<\/p>\n

I choose to interpret the intention of this message as a mash-up between two ideas:<\/p>\n

1. There is something wrong with chaining bikes in general. It is an anti-bike chaining statement. <\/p>\n

2. The owner of this scaffolding is going to remove this scaffolding at their own expense.<\/p>\n

Thanks buddy! I’m going to continue chaining my bike until you can explain why this is wrong. And although I never really thought very much about who pays for scaffold removal, I’m not sure why I should think about it either…<\/p>\n

hmmmm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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