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Picture this: a street with potholes as big as a foot wide. They sit there unfixed until a man comes along with a tractor and fills them himself.

And what does the city do? It tells him he could be fined, and take steps to undo the work he has already done. That's the situation facing Mike Defazio, who grew tired of seeing potholes on Broadway Avenue in Saint John, N.B. and decided to fill them with gravel last Saturday, CBC News reported.
On Wednesday, however, a city employee told him he had broken bylaws.

"I thought that I wasn’t really doing anything wrong, but he sure straightened me out on that matter," Defazio told the network. Defazio decided to do the work after blowing out a tire on the street three weeks ago. He also says he witnessed a funeral hearse trying to maneuvre around potholes, The National Post reported.

But in filling the holes, he also broke a bylaw stating that private citizens can't modify the city's roads, Kevin Rice, the city's deputy commissioner of transportation and environment services, told the newspaper.

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poehalcho wrote:It's kinda like mowing somebody else's grass... well meant or not it's unlikely to be appreciated.

*BlackFox wrote:No good deed for parties you aren't personally acquainted with goes... unpunished?

poehalcho wrote:gotta know the motivation behind the action, ya know?

Potholes damage his tires, he fills them in

Sanktum wrote:He should have seen that coming, but undoing his work is just stupidity.

BuDo wrote:

Sanktum wrote:He should have seen that coming, but undoing his work is just stupidity.

Undoing his work seem stupid but he's not a professional licensed contractor/engineer hired by the city where liability is accounted for and work performed is documented... His work is not recorded/documented anywhere so nobody knows what he did and how well he did it... That's where the problem is...

Fiction wrote:

BuDo wrote:

Sanktum wrote:He should have seen that coming, but undoing his work is just stupidity.

Undoing his work seem stupid but he's not a professional licensed contractor/engineer hired by the city where liability is accounted for and work performed is documented... His work is not recorded/documented anywhere so nobody knows what he did and how well he did it... That's where the problem is...

Lmao! I love how you think all that stuff is actually important. I hope all those dirt roads I drove down were made by licensed professionals! I wouldn't want the gravel to give way and cause my truck to flip over... The problem here is most these small towns want to use the little money they get on "beautifying" their city, paving the roads to the city counselors' houses, and saying **** the rest of the people in the town. Local government is no different when it comes to corruption and poor budget management than our larger governments.

*BlackFox wrote:"legal and municipal" needs to wake up! lulz

BuDo wrote:the people in that community need to engage their elected officials on the matter..

Fiction wrote:

BuDo wrote:

Sanktum wrote:He should have seen that coming, but undoing his work is just stupidity.

Undoing his work seem stupid but he's not a professional licensed contractor/engineer hired by the city where liability is accounted for and work performed is documented... His work is not recorded/documented anywhere so nobody knows what he did and how well he did it... That's where the problem is...

Lmao! I love how you think all that stuff is actually important. I hope all those dirt roads I drove down were made by licensed professionals! I wouldn't want the gravel to give way and cause my truck to flip over... The problem here is most these small towns want to use the little money they get on "beautifying" their city, paving the roads to the city counselors' houses, and saying **** the rest of the people in the town. Local government is no different when it comes to corruption and poor budget management than our larger governments.

MrJoey wrote:

Fiction wrote:Lmao! I love how you think all that stuff is actually important. I hope all those dirt roads I drove down were made by licensed professionals! I wouldn't want the gravel to give way and cause my truck to flip over... The problem here is most these small towns want to use the little money they get on "beautifying" their city, paving the roads to the city counselors' houses, and saying **** the rest of the people in the town. Local government is no different when it comes to corruption and poor budget management than our larger governments.

I used to work for a county highway department, my dad currently works for one, I can honestly say that you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

*BlackFox wrote:So, why don't they repair these potholes?

Fiction wrote:

MrJoey wrote:

Fiction wrote:Lmao! I love how you think all that stuff is actually important. I hope all those dirt roads I drove down were made by licensed professionals! I wouldn't want the gravel to give way and cause my truck to flip over... The problem here is most these small towns want to use the little money they get on "beautifying" their city, paving the roads to the city counselors' houses, and saying **** the rest of the people in the town. Local government is no different when it comes to corruption and poor budget management than our larger governments.

I used to work for a county highway department, my dad currently works for one, I can honestly say that you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

My bad... I didn't realize the guy was filling in pot holes on the highway... I thought he was filling them in on a residential street... Oh, wait... No, no he wasn't filling in highway pot holes... So traffic wasn't traveling over 65mph in a constant flow?... So you don't need any special procedure to correctly fill it... and the city crews aren't responsible for highway maintenance... Damn I really don't know what I'm talking about, and your ad verecundiam with your impeccable credentials are proof enough to discredit my statement. Obviously.

BuDo wrote:We pay taxes so these things can be taken care of

*BlackFox wrote:

BuDo wrote:We pay taxes so these things can be taken care of

Where does all the tax money go then? I guess, they being used to promote unions, to buy weapons etc..
Well, potholes might take... 10 years until it's fixed! But we should be glad!