They need some help from the terminator.
https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-arnold-schwarzenegger-los-angeles-potholes-c778451f7d913378e4b3c8440a417cd5

A simple case of messing with someone's rice bowl

One time our township wasn't doing it's job grading our dirt road.  I dropped a disk on it to smooth it out.  They didn't know who did it, but I certainly heard about it through the grapevine, luckily know one saw me.

I was doing some work at one of our marine facilities and was told that only a teamster was allowed to set up and move any of the facilities' ladders. So the next day I brought my own non-union ladder.

The looks I got from the dork in charge were priceless.

Haha I did that in Greenville SC and while they did not give me a C & D letter, they looked at me in a very disapproving manner. Oh well! Morons cannot do their job? I will bill them for my work. Stupid local governments are the worst.

Unions in the northeast are famous for that kind of thing. I was IBEW in Boston so saw a lot of it firsthand.

Hooters in the North End was being built by non-union labor (it was a renovation of an old building). The unions kept threatening the owners about using non-union labor but they wouldn’t back down, so the union burnt it down. My father was Boston PD, they knew who did it, but didn’t have enough proof to prosecute (there are two IBEW locals in Boston, it was the other one, not mine). The owners got the message and the rebuild was done with union labor.

New Balance World HQ is in Boston. When they built their new HQ, the GC snuck in a non-union wiring contractor at night to pull wire. They got caught. The iron workers dropped a steel girder through the roof of one of their trucks.

Cider House Rules - MA was offering incentives to get Hollywood to film in MA, so Cider House Rules was filmed there. Hollywood sent trucks full of lighting equipment for the movie, but the local theater unions got mad they weren’t using their equipment so stole the trucks and assaulted the drivers. The equipment was never recovered. They also beat the shit out of some old lady operating a food truck because she wasn’t union. Hollywood said, “Thanks for the lobster, but we’re done here”. The governor and some of his cohorts flew out to California to try to smooth things over and bring the studios back to MA, but were basically told to go f#ck themselves. There’s been a couple of movies filmed in MA since then (i.e. The Town) but not a lot. Hollywood chose Georgia instead.

NYC has some really bizarre rules. I worked for Lucent installing commercial phone systems, voicemail, auto-dialers, IVRs, CMS (tracks call center statistics), paging systems, voice recording, etc. As the lead tech, I was responsible for everything but in NYC, they had a separate tech for each piece of equipment and nobody could touch the other tech’s equipment. So for example, if the integration between the phone system and voicemail went down, they’d have to send a PBX tech and a VM tech to troubleshoot, whereas in Boston I’d do it all myself. Not only could they not work on equipment they were all trained on, but weren’t allowed to plug anything in. There’d be a small army of techs installing a system with 3,000 phones hanging off it, but would have to put an entire system together and leave 30-40 power cords sitting on the floor and pay union electricians to plug them all in. Idiotic.

This country is fucking finished, culturally.

Two crabs try to climb out of the bucket, and the fucking government pushes them back in.

One tactic that seems to work is planting trees in potholes. These pics are from TX, CA, and I think FL. The last one they actually filled them with pot plants.

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This ^^

Reminds me of this...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/americas/man-steps-trouble-trnd/index.html

You have perfectly described the policy of most city, county, and state governments.

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

That couple should comply with the city's order.  Register the truck to some kind of trust, and every time the city tells someone to comply, they will do so, and pass the truck and equipment on to the next group of people who will fill potholes...and they pass the stuff on to the next group after the city tells them to stop...sort of like whack a mole with pot hole filling citizens.

That was happening here. Socal Mountains. Not only were locals pouring gravel and concrete in the pot holes, they were re striping the lines on the highways. It kicked Cal Trans and the county into high gear.

I've been tempted to do the same on the county road I live on, they wait until the washboards get so bad you have to creep along at less than 5 mph or risk damaging your vehicle before they'll send the blade out. The only thing stopping me is I know there would be repercussions and I'm fortunate to only have to travel about 1/2 mile before I hit pavement.

Reminds me of the guy that went around town spraypainting dicks around all the potholes. The city figured it was cheaper to just fill the pothole than remove the spray paint, so they ended up fixing all the potholes.

I mean, it is a Pot Hole after all.

This is exactly it.  I manage our county's engineering and maintenance division (roads and bridges).  We require encroachment permits for any work within our right-of-way so that we can keep track of what work is done where.  We actually do a fine job fixing pot holes in a timely manner, but if someone were to patch a pot hole, and we were unaware of it, and they do a poor job, the patch settles, and someone hits it and damages their car, we may be held liable.

Filing that one away for later (not the pot).

Reminds me of SEIU union filing a greivance and threatening a 17 year old scout in PA for his volunteer Eagle scout project.