Jobsworths

[greenshrimp]

http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/lanc ... 5595829.jp

Is cleaning in your local authority footpath illegal?

[Gnasher]

If the streets were as clean as TK Maxx can get them, there wouldn't be a problem

[Keith]

don't suppose anyone got a photo?

[Plain Peter]

Paul Hutchence, joint-chairman of the Lancaster Civic Society, said: "This is an appalling act of corporate vandalism. It amounts to graffiti and it's disrespectful to our city and its history.

That's a laugh.

[Christies Child]

It's got people talking about 'em which i suspect was part of their original thinking.

Still, like the store a load of crap....according to my daughter.

[greenshrimp]

http://awards.microsite.be/2008/video/index.html?moviename=ING_streetvertising

Similar story on ING - all the press surrounding it is probably more valuable than the advert itself!

[Number 1]

"Created by using a high pressure water jet to remove a layer of dirt"

So if the pavements were clean, they couldn't do it. So why is partly cleaning the pavement vandalism?

If the council are so bothered let them clean the city up.

They've been caught with their trousers down, and they think the ads are drawing attention to their lack of cleanliness, that why they're so bothered.

[Gnasher]

So for free advertising that makes the press, plug in a high power jet washer? Could be fun

[morecambe mick]

Trouble is, the council will "clean the city up" by diverting funds from cleaning elsewhere.
Probably.

Guess the road outside my house will have to wait another 6 months, before someone drives past at 35mph on a road sweeper.

[ockers]

just charge tk maxx for the cleaning job
get them to pay up add in a sizeable charitable donation and drop the matter
then perhaps they can go through the normal channels of applying for planning permssion for the right to display an advertisement as other companies have to do
simples.........

[Gnasher]

Taken from the article:

A TK Maxx spokeswoman said between 20 and 25 pieces of 'artwork' had been created throughout the city.
She said: "No bleaches or solvents are used in the process.
"However, we would not wish to cause offence or concern amongst local people and so as soon as Lancaster City Council brought this to our attention we have agreed to remove the water art."

A lot of fuss over nothing, must have been a quiet news week.

[durhamshrimp]

Can't see the fuss here, it'd just wear off before long. As for the pavements being 'dirty' in the first place that's a bit misleading. They use to the stencil to make the advert part of the pavement pristine. Normal wear and tear of the pavement is hardly it being in a terrible state, more just not pristine.

[eggchaser]

theres a guy who goes by the name of 'moose' from leeds who does this clean graffiti for a living and some companys pay him up to £600 a day to put the logos on various city's streets, leeds city council were less than impressed with it though

The source of the trouble has been a rather unfathomable message in 3ftletters for Smirnoff's "Lyriquid perfection" campaign, condemned by Gerry Harper, a Leeds councillor, as "sheer vandalism". Moose counters that he should not be prosecuted "for cleaning the walls". But Leeds City Council insists his work is illegal because any advertiser needs a permit. The Crown Prosecution Service says he may have been in breach of last year's Anti-Social Behaviour Act