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Soon they will rise and take their rightful place. Soon. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer BaronOBeefDip says, “Here we see the rare wild Burrowing Fire-Hydrant. A solitary creature, it spends most of its life underground, surfacing only to feed and to find a mate.”
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The Mole People live in a yellow submarine.
We ALL live in a yellow submarine, dear friend.
A yellow submarine?
A yellow submarine!
We all live in a yeloow submarine
How did I know this was coming before I read the comments…
+10 Internets to this thread!
Because our friends are all aboard!
Only in Canada! Spiffin up the streets for the G-8 and the G-20 World Summit in Huntsville and Toronto Ont… 2010. Lets hope there is no fire!
{Tattoo} The Flame! The Flame!! {/Tattoo}
Any idea where this is, people?
They DO sell pre-cast riser extensions with the bolt flanges and the “Break Off Cleanly Here” score line for /just/ this sort of problem…
This is in Huntsville Ontario, Canada. Where the G8 summit will be held. The sidewalks were quickly spruced up, leaving some “details” out.
I think this is somewhere in Hazzard County. I distinctly remember an episode where Roscoe has the dummy fire hydrant he just moves around to give people tickets. This is clearly an advanced version of that – it’s RETRACTABLE.
Actually, they’re retractable in order to allow the sidewalks to roll up at 7:00 pm.
You just made my day.
Really? Because I died a little inside when I realized a part of my brain had been dedicated to remembering that.
It’s actually in Parry Sound, Ontario.
Yes officer, I have legitimate business in this seedy thai massage parlor because I’m a proud fireman of this great city…
Methinks Captain Nemo took a wrong turn at Albuquerque…
The Beatles mash up album: Yellow Submarine meets Abbey Road.
Here we see the young fire hydrant trying to play a game of hide and seek, but as with human children, this young fire hydrant haven’t quite yet mastered the technique of hiding. Meanwhile the adult fire truck is looking in another part pf the city to fool this young soul into believing that the fire truck doesn’t rally know where the hydrant is. We’ll keep watching this as the suspence is rising and the hydrant get more and more excited and is about to burst a cap and wet itself.
And in other news, the Department of Public Works announced today that, due in part to the city’s growing population of Dachshund owners, it would begin installing hydrants at a more comfortable level. When challenged to justify the additional cost, they responded, “Get a long little doggie.”
Great Danes are pissed.
Dachshund are pissing.
This would be perfect for my Doxie then, because she just squats. She can just walk over the top, and let it go. I’ll bring her over right away.
The Americans with Disabilities people *finally* score “functionally equivalent access” for midget firemen!
AMEN!!
Are these the Mole People that live “down, down, down in the center of the Earth, down, down…”?
Here we see the rare wild Burrowing Fire-Hydrant. A solitary creature, it spends most of its life underground, surfacing only to feed and to find a mate.
WIN!
not the Russians again!
but yellow camouflage?
Unfortunately, a great historical treasure was lost when the careless residents of Boringville built a sidewalk right over the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine.
Duh da…
Duh da…
Duh da, Duh Da, DUH DA–Street Shark!!!
The water ws a little cold that day.
CRAB PEOPLE! CRAB PEOPLE! XD
Give me a mallet. It’s time for Whack-a-Hydrant!
After finishing the yellow brick road, the Munchkins branched out into fire hydrants.
This is a fire hydrant mob hit. Instead of cement shoes and thrown off a bridge, they are encased in a sidewalk and left to forever realize there purpose has been nullified. There is no greater shame to a fire hydrant than to have their usefullness taken away.
The beatles have come back! WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE!
“I WAS IN THE POOL! I WAS IN THE POOL!”
Wait just a minute.. It’s for the munchikins fire department. Their aerial ladder truck is only 5 feet high!
This is in Parry Sound, Ontario, my hometown. Pretty sure one my buddies is responsible for this. Not the smartest guys working on the construction crew.
This is in Ontario, Canada. It’s been all over the news. The best part of this shoddy crapsmanship? It was done (with tax dollars of course) to impress the arriving leaders during the g8/g20 summit.
We ALL live in a yellow submarine, dear friend.
The other posters are correct, this is from Parry Sound Ontario. Right in front of #32 James St., to be exact. I live just around the corner from this.
What people are incorrect about, however, is that this was because of shoddy workmanship or G8/G20 “sprucing.”
First, it’s not related to the G8 at all (which is an hour away from here). All the downtown streets are being redone – sewers, sidewalks and street surface – as part of an ongoing infrastructure project that has been in the works since before the G8 was even announced.
Second, it wasn’t shoddy workmanship in the slightest. With the construction, new streetlights, benches, garbage cans and fire hydrants were ordered, all of this faux “old fashioned” style. The new fire hydrants are substantially taller than the old ones. All the sidewalk construction and plumbing was based on the new taller hydrant. Problem was the new hydrants were a special order item (from Clow Canada, I believe, based in Hamilton) and they were back ordered. The water had to be turned back on, which meant that the pipe had to be capped off with something, so they capped it off temporarily with the old, shorter hydrant while they waited for the new one to arrive.
While they were waiting, the subcontractor hired to do the decorative lock-block came along. He was told to leave all the block around the hydrant out, so that they could still use the old hydrant, and plus easily replace it with the new one when it arrived. However, that contractor was worried about the safety liability of leaving all those blocks out — he thought someone might trip on it. So he filled in the lock block right up to the hydrant, thinking he would just come pull a bunch out when the new hydrant arrived. The new hydrant arrived less than a week later and the one in this picture was replaced with no fuss.
Sometime in that week, though, some hot shot took a picture of it and sent it to the newspaper, trying to spin it as an example of the government wasting more tax dollars. The government does waste tax dollars and there is plenty of real things to criticize them about, so lets criticize them for the things they actually do wrong, rather than trying to blame them for routine construction delays.
Appears the street department hates the fire department!