Council Saves Thousands By Painting White Circles Around Potholes And Then Pissing Off
2018-04-09
Rotherham Borough Council has come up with an ingenious scheme which they say will save at least £100,000 a year. Instead of repairing potholes in the road using tarmac, they simply paint a white circle around them and then piss off again.
A spokesperson for the council department which claims to have come up with the scheme said “It’s brilliant, we just bought an industrial quantity of white paint for pennies and a dozen brushes. Blokes go out in a van and are instructed to paint a circle around any potholes they see. The genius bit is that mug ratepayers think that means someone is going to come along later and repair them. In your dreams, my friend! The real reason we paint round ‘em is it makes it more difficult to sue us when someone busts their car suspension or falls of their bike and dies or something like that.”
The Bugle understands that although Rotherham Borough Council are claiming credit for the idea, it might not be original. We are receiving reports of similar schemes already operating in a number of areas including one in Birmingham which is described as resembling ‘an explosion in a giant polo mint factory’ and another on a road in Leeds which has been turned into a rudimentary 576-hole golf course.’
