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Is the City of Toronto playing jokes on us?
blogTO reader Lindsay Shostal sent us this photo of what looks like an official City of Toronto Transportation Services sign that reads "This snow will met within the next 48 days", seen on Camden Street.
She's dying to know if this is for real, and so am I. I'm somewhat sceptical though. It hardly seems like it would be necessary to post temporary signage on a tiny snow bank that is destined to melt within a short time from now (and presumably require that city staff return to collect the sign at that time). 48 days from when?
Perhaps the signs are more for the benefit of city staff than to us puzzled citizens. Maybe the operators of salters, ploughs, or even this behemoth mobile melting machine need to know which snow banks to pass by, and which ones to get all melty on.
Anyone know the score on these red signs? Is this an early April Fool's joke being played by someone? Perhaps in the morning someone can call Snow Removal and Operations Management at 416-338-9999 and report back here.
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Anyway, I think this is probably a play on those signs. Mind you, as that fire hydrant is the closest the house I live in, I'm glad they put up a notice.
That rules out no one as the culprit then ;)
Please, no one call <i>Snow Removal and Operations Management.</i> Your only going to piss my bosses off, and in turn, make me actually work...
I joke. But obviously, this is a just another hit. It's a take on those red tags to clear your sidewalks / snowbanks.
Next week on Toronto blogs, a TTC sticker on a limousine during the strike!
i'm 95% sure that is not a photoshop/chop..
Look at the lighting of the board..
its consistent a and matches with the scene..
also, look at the center of the sign..
you can see light through it to see the wooden post
with out any distortion effects..
so either thats one ~heck~ of a photoshop job,
or someone had fun with magic markers.
..and yes, there is some digital.. waveyness
through out the sign.. but you have to take in to
account that most digital cameras don't do the
red area of the color spectrum justice.
The thing that gets me though,
is the logo on the top.. it seems official..
so could it be a disgruntled city worker who did this ?
Meant to inform people with cars parked on the street that they had to move their cars, as the snow was going to be hauled away via dump truck.
(shame on me for not having inspected this more closely)