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posted by on Thursday December 08 2016, @04:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-for-multiple-types-of-cracks dept.

The Denver Post reports

At first glance, Littleton, [Colorado,] looks like ground zero for Halloween pranksters this year--toilet paper is strewn across street after street and block after block.

The messy look prompted a few irritated inquiries from residents on the city's Facebook page this week, like this one from Madison Lucas: "This is UGLY!! All over Littleton!!" Or from Stephanie Gregory : "My kids and I thought it was vandalism."

But the TP'ing scheme is actually the work of the city itself. Littleton is using bathroom tissue as part of an effort to seal the myriad cracks that plague road surfaces in this city. It is tackling 120 streets with this bottoms-up tactic.

[...] The TP, applied with a paint roller, absorbs the oil from freshly laid tar as it dries, keeping it from sticking to people's shoes or car and bike tires. With the paper's protective abilities, asphalt isn't tracked all over the city or splattered on wheel wells. And the biodegradable paper breaks down and disappears in a matter of days.

[...] Kelli Narde, a spokeswoman for Littleton, said the real benefit of using toilet paper is that it allows traffic to retake the road right after a crack is filled.


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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 08 2016, @05:44AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 08 2016, @05:44AM (#438639) Journal

    It has become common practice to insert (pun intended) typos and egregious misspellings in order to cater to the less educated Soylentils. This is especially the case when correcting someone's spelling and/or grammar.

    Point taken, however. A loose faith, a belief in things, more or less? Or perhaps, a loose faith meaning that it denounces perverse sexual acts, but regularly partakes of them? Or, and this is the one I am after, a loose faith is someone who will believe almost anything, since their faith is just bouncing around at random. And the internet makes this worse. I just had to endure an explanation of how the whole Sandy Hook Massacre was a fake. When faith attaches itself to fake news, it is no faith at all, it is naivete, it is ignorance, it is being really stupid. Errant faith, synonym for moron. As in, the Angel Moroni, of the Latter Day Morons. Keep your faith tight, people!
     

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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday December 08 2016, @06:54AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Thursday December 08 2016, @06:54AM (#438651) Journal

    I had actually noticed your tendency for deliberate error, so I wasn't actually correcting. :)

    I was just taking the opportunity to make a few bad puns, at least following on the spirit of the article... Not out of inspiration by the article, mind you, more like a kind of traumatic bonding with it akin to Stockholm syndrome.

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 08 2016, @07:04AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 08 2016, @07:04AM (#438654) Journal

      Beee the TP! That is what I always say. But on the other hand, I might appreciate some asphaltum in my wheel well, since the manufactuer's anti-corrosion stuff does not always seem to do the job. Deliverate Error? What are you talcing about?

      • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:40PM

        by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:40PM (#438701) Journal

        Butt what if you can't think of a pun?

        --
        "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:15PM

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:15PM (#438709) Homepage
          It doesn't have to be a good one, any kind of cheeky humour will crack people up. I'm sure there will be piles of groaners that brown people off.
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          Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @08:19PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @08:19PM (#438841)

        stop talking to yourself ari