The Grand Gallery Of Almightily Stupid Ideas, (Number One)

So if you've been out and about in... well, Gauteng lately, you will have seen urban beautification of sidewalks using what seems to be construction rubble.

I think there were several causes for this happening.

Firstly, most of the rcks look freshly... rubbleised (?) in my opinion, likely from Gautrain blasting.

So someone in the Gautrain project had tons (literally) of rubble and decided to sell it rather than dump it.

 

They went to the owners and managers of buildings, properties, shopping centres with sidewalk that would look better and prettier with this rubble strewn alongside it. They probably had a great sales pitch.. Low cost (how much do you sell rubbish for), no maintenance, unlike if they had done a planted beautification, requiring water, fertilizer, and a human or ten to tend it.

Rubble, pay once, gaze at forever.

 

The person who seems not to have been at the meeting would be a representative of the common sense brigade, local trends branch, how fucking stupid can you get division.

This person might have pointed out that South Africa is a country with a long tradition of toyi-toyi'ng, marches and protests.

They might mention that these gatherings of people can turn into mobs at the drop of a hat.

Theymight have pointed out that if such a gathering is meandearing by your permises, and turns even a few members to the dark side of eaceful protest, and those individuals/mob decide to make you a target of their frustrations, you may have inadvertantly provided them with heavy, throwable rock-based projectiles with which to pelt your windows and patrons.

 

Unfortunately, all members of the common sense brigade are allocated to the julius malema youth league election committee, the DA's we can take gauteng meeting (I love the enthusiasm, but really...) and at the people who believe/advertise that the world is ending this weekend. (with limited success, so far).

 

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