The fact that this Seattle Silliness is more than 2
years old does not mean it should not be blogged about. The fact that it ever
happened makes it Eternal Blog Material.
According to a July 2017 article in the Seattle Times the area surrounding King County Superior Court reeked of Urine and Excrement. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks.
That seemed like a
pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman was worried that
doing so might be a form of Micro Aggression and he feared it might be Racially
Insensitive.
According to the Times, the
Councilmember “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks
because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights
activists.”
After much debate and wasted time the sidewalks were power washed. In 2019 the long-serving councilman was voted out of office but that was probably because his replacement was better looking or he parted his hair on the other side of his good looking head.
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The real story is that fact that a councilman actually took this position in the first place. Why does Silliness tie society into knots like this? Why aren’t these people just ignored while we continue trying to do things that make sense?
There was a problem outside of Seattle’s King County Superior Court. Anyone should have been able to see that but this councilman raised his nonsensical objection to this very logical fix. He did not propose an alternative fix. He just objected and the wringing of hands and debate started.
He should have been ignored. More appropriately he should have been given a Hazmat Suit and a spoon and assigned the job of cleaning up the problem he seemed to want to perpetuate.
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Don’t think that this was the end of Foolishness in America. If you want to see if Foolishness is still with us today, turn on your Radio or TV because there is probably a public official somewhere in the Good Ole USofA (very likely Seattle) this very day that is poking holes in the air with his finger saying, “Urine and Excrement Do Not Get the Respect They Deserve”.
Seattle is lucky that the Micro Aggression Hose was put to work. What if the poop had continued to pile up and the Superior Count would have become completely covered up?…
- The courthouse would have had to be condemned.
- A new courthouse would have had to be built.
- Taxes would have had to be raised for the construction costs.
- In order to get away from the stench of the old courthouse, Seattle probably would have had to build the new courthouse a long way away from the stinky old one so that his citizens would be safe from the hazards coming out of the old covered up courthouse. (My guess is Idaho.)
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Seattle is lucky this Councilman was voted out of office. If his hose ban had worked, he might have moved on to his next project of proposing the banning of Winnie-the-Pooh from Seattle’s Public Libraries because he was certain that Po Bear is the same as Bear Poo.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: From
my Count Your Blessings Department…Thank heavens this Councilman was only a
Councilman. If he had been the Dictator of Seattle he would have Banned the Seattle
Fire Department ever using Fire Hoses to Put Out Fires in the Once Great
City of Seattle.
