mostly OT, tire alien "please don't litter" sign/sculpture
William Wixon
hardware, but it's my little project that involved a small amount of
welding. and i'm proud of it. i think it came out ok. i think it's cute
and funny.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/tirealien.jpg
i "adopted" a road near me. we do a litter pick up day in april. some
toothless inbred redneck threw 5 tires along our road. i was at a loss as
to what to do with them. wanted to make lemonade out of lemons. came up
with this "tire alien sculpture sign thingy". i used two recycled compact
discs for his wind activated "antenna" spinner thing. i originally had the
tires alternating black/white but the word "litter" was being partially
obscured so i changed it to a large-to-small arrangement, which changed the
wording and the black/white alternating. i thought instead of "please don't
litter", "litter please don't" was kinda in keeping with the alien theme,
sounds kinda yoda-ese.
b.w.
Winston
> well, so, it's not like some high tech CAM produced piece of aerospace
> hardware, but it's my little project that involved a small amount of
> welding. and i'm proud of it. i think it came out ok. i think it's cute
> and funny.
>
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/tirealien.jpg
Cool!
If someone would just throw away a few hundred feet of conduit
and a couple basketballs, you could make your own FSM:
http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/fsm.jpg
--Winston
wmbjk...@citlink.net
Excellent. I wish I could do something useful with the trash that the
rednecks (mostly hunters) leave on my road. Got any designs that make
use of fast food wrapping-foil and giant soda cups? I was thinking
along the lines of a 10'X20', 40' deep pit covered with a trap door,
and situated just past the first no-hunting sign. You know, a sort of
self-compacting trash reservoir. :-)
Wayne
Wes
>http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/tirealien.jpg
>
>i "adopted" a road near me. we do a litter pick up day in april. some
>toothless inbred redneck threw 5 tires along our road. i was at a loss as
>to what to do with them. wanted to make lemonade out of lemons. came up
>with this "tire alien sculpture sign thingy". i used two recycled compact
>discs for his wind activated "antenna" spinner thing. i originally had the
>tires alternating black/white but the word "litter" was being partially
>obscured so i changed it to a large-to-small arrangement, which changed the
>wording and the black/white alternating. i thought instead of "please don't
>litter", "litter please don't" was kinda in keeping with the alien theme,
>sounds kinda yoda-ese.
Nice work! I got a chuckle out of it. I fear you may find the makings of a alien family
though. There are some real slobs out there, even ones with good dental work.
Wes
Steve W.
> "William Wixon" <wwi...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
>> http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/tirealien.jpg
>>
>> i "adopted" a road near me. we do a litter pick up day in april. some
>> toothless inbred redneck threw 5 tires along our road. i was at a loss as
>> to what to do with them. wanted to make lemonade out of lemons. came up
>> with this "tire alien sculpture sign thingy". i used two recycled compact
>> discs for his wind activated "antenna" spinner thing. i originally had the
>> tires alternating black/white but the word "litter" was being partially
>> obscured so i changed it to a large-to-small arrangement, which changed the
>> wording and the black/white alternating. i thought instead of "please don't
>> litter", "litter please don't" was kinda in keeping with the alien theme,
>> sounds kinda yoda-ese.
William
Welcome to the wonderful world of "toss it out the window" I also
adopted a stretch of road near me (actually 2.5 miles on one road and 3+
on another) You will find things that will really make you wonder...
I have found sinks, panties, a refrigerator, tires, car batteries...
The good thing is that the state will pick up ANYTHING if I drag it out
and tag it (just spray it with an orange X) Big stuff I call about.
If you're in NY state the local engineer will give you a number to call
along with the hard hats, vests and the CHEAP gloves they hand out.
I usually pick up the junk every month, plus one section I keep mowed as
well. Looks MUCH better but I sort of lost interest when my puppy passed
away last year. I kept it mowed because he was a SHORT legged Corgi. Not
sure if I'm going to bother now. I'll still pick up the trash though.
--
Steve W.
Wes
>I usually pick up the junk every month, plus one section I keep mowed as
>well. Looks MUCH better but I sort of lost interest when my puppy passed
>away last year. I kept it mowed because he was a SHORT legged Corgi. Not
>sure if I'm going to bother now. I'll still pick up the trash though.
Sorry about your doggie buddy. It has been 2 1/2 years and I still miss Thor.
http://wess.freeshell.org/DSC00041_800x600.jpg
Dogs are special, a non judgmental man's best friend that will stick with you no mater
what who is always glad to see you. Cats only get concerned it the food dish is empty.
Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller
Steve W.
Yeah that bond is VERY special. I think the largest part is the trust
they place in you. It makes it really hard when you have to make the
final decision because they cannot really tell you what they want.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/busterpup/
Has some picture of him through the years.
--
Steve W.
William Wixon
thanks guys, your comments really cracked me up. :-)
winston, maybe next will be a FSM.
wayne, yeah, really, me too, with a shredder at the bottom.
wes, yeah, prolly some helpful citizen will decide drop off some more
materials for me.
steve, congrats, thanks for your efforts. i participated in two organized
(my local pick-ups are informal get-togethers) state road "adopt a highway"
pick-ups (down the side of a mountain), amazing the stuff, there was a dead
dog still on a leash, a kitchen garbage bag of human feces... it's nasty.
sorry about your dog. you too wes.
this "sculpture" entertains me. i was disappointed the antenna spinner
doesn't actually SPIN in wind, it kinda pivots back and forth, (i think if
it had a vane and was pointed into the wind it would spin) but it cracked me
up because it kinda looks like the "alien" is nervously glancing around,
watching for threats. i joked with a friend about it and she joked that the
alien (that looks to us like a stack of junk tires) was plomped down here on
earth alongside the road and is "HOPING NOBODY NOTICES ME!" (where he's VERY
noticable), hiding out in the open. i was just thinking this poor guy was
plompled down, some redneck comes along (me) and is like "dang!! useless!
can't even take it to the scrap man!!" "what can i do with this thing?! i
know, i'll spray paint some words on it!". seemed like a funny clip from a
movie. a defenseless alien who's paralyzed with fear, some redneck comes
along and sprays some graffiti on it (which makes it even MORE noticable).
holy shit, how many times has that happened in the history of the world.
some "redneck" comes upon an alien spaceship (like 3 feet dia.) and doesn't
know what it is, can't use any of the parts, hauls it in his junker p/u to
the scrap man, who dumps it into the hopper and shreds it.
Michael A. Terrell
Too bad they missed the Democrat mothership, before its cargo oozed
out and contaminated everything.
--
Greed is the root of all eBay.
Stormin Mormon
done, good man.
--
Christopher A. Young
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Stormin Mormon
for the mother ship. Musta got hauled off and junked.
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Pinstripe Sniper
Nice job! What is the "cap" between the top tire and the 2 cd spinner
antenna?
PsS
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>William
> Welcome to the wonderful world of "toss it out the window" I also
>adopted a stretch of road near me (actually 2.5 miles on one road and 3+
>on another) You will find things that will really make you wonder...
>
>I have found sinks, panties, a refrigerator, tires, car batteries...
I regularly see female undergarments "abandoned" on an active roadway
near my home. Saturday/Sunday mornings which makes sense assuming
it's a courting ritual of young people nowadays.
I just hope the young ladies giving them up are doing so willingly.
William Wixon
"Pinstripe Sniper" <very...@nocando.com> wrote in message
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>
> Nice job! What is the "cap" between the top tire and the 2 cd spinner
> antenna?
>
> PsS
>
thanks!
i sawed off the domed bottom of a fire extinguisher, that was the "welding"
portion of my project, to the water pressure tank dome i scrounged at the
dump.
b.w.
Gunner Asch
>"Steve W." <csr...@NOTyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I usually pick up the junk every month, plus one section I keep mowed as
>>well. Looks MUCH better but I sort of lost interest when my puppy passed
>>away last year. I kept it mowed because he was a SHORT legged Corgi. Not
>>sure if I'm going to bother now. I'll still pick up the trash though.
>
>
>Sorry about your doggie buddy. It has been 2 1/2 years and I still miss Thor.
>http://wess.freeshell.org/DSC00041_800x600.jpg
>
>Dogs are special, a non judgmental man's best friend that will stick with you no mater
>what who is always glad to see you. Cats only get concerned it the food dish is empty.
>
>
>Wes
Please...please go to the local pound and adopt a dog. In todays
economy...more and more critters are going to the pound and in most of
them...they have 3 days ..then they are killed.
Its past time for both of you to go down and adopt one. In fact...get
two. They need playmates and since both of you are apparently old
farts...they need playmates to play with, and you to sleep with.
As for cats..some are people friendly like dogs, others are not.
When I got home at 3 am this morning..with both of my dogs jumping out
of the truck in glee after having been gone for 2 weeks..we were greeted
by another 3 dogs and 2 cats..the cats jumping right in with the dogs to
get head scratched and hugged and loved on.
Come on guys...go and find yourselves some buddies at the pound, or on
Craigslist or wherever. You obviously need them..and they damned sure
need you!
Gunner
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the
means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of
it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different
countries, that the more public provisions were made for the
poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became
poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the
more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin
Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766
Gunner Asch
Hear hear!!
Pinstripe Sniper
>"Pinstripe Sniper" <very...@nocando.com> wrote in message
>> antenna?
>> PsS
>thanks!
>i sawed off the domed bottom of a fire extinguisher, that was the "welding"
>portion of my project, to the water pressure tank dome i scrounged at the
>dump.
>b.w.
Nice.
The idealist in me says if you can make a person smile or laugh when
you want them to do the proper thing, your odds of success are
improved. :-)
The cynic in me says someone will set it on fire or otherwise deface
it or steal it. :-(
Pinstripe Sniper
>If someone would just throw away a few hundred feet of conduit
>and a couple basketballs, you could make your own FSM:
>http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/fsm.jpg
>--Winston
If thee is ignorant to the ways and teachings of FSM and the one true
path to Pastafarianism, seek enlightenment here:
http://www.venganza.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Winston
> Winston <Win...@bigbrother.net> wrote:
>> If someone would just throw away a few hundred feet of conduit
>> and a couple basketballs, you could make your own FSM:
>> http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/fsm.jpg
>> --Winston
>
> If thee is ignorant to the ways and teachings of FSM and the one true
> path to Pastafarianism, seek enlightenment here:
>
> http://www.venganza.org
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
>
>
> PsS
Sauce be upon Him
--Winston
William Wixon
>
> Nice.
>
> The idealist in me says if you can make a person smile or laugh when
> you want them to do the proper thing, your odds of success are
> improved. :-)
>
> The cynic in me says someone will set it on fire or otherwise deface
> it or steal it. :-(
>
> PsS
>
>
thanks again.
(not to belabor this thread...)
yeah, i agree, i'm sure it's going to be vandalized. almost would be good
though if they steal it, a creative way to dispose of dumped tires. i was
figuring it'll be rammed with a truck (that's what keeps happening to the
plywood signs), at least this one is rubber, maybe it'll mostly bounce.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/happyjoypleasedon'tlitter.jpg
i change the seasonal message, try to make it cute hoping people would be
less inclined to smash 'em.
(these locations are traditional dumping areas (two different signs
pictured), seems the dumping has "stopped", much to everyone's surprise.)
(i pull the "patriotic" card with the (u.s.) flag(s), last time someone
smashed the one sign they stole the flag.)
(the sportsmen's club that leases the farm land put the posted sign.)
(i made another one, plasma cut (about 8"~12" tall) letters out of 5 gal.
vegetable oil cans from the chinese joint, "keep" "america" "beautiful".
"beautiful" was over 6 feet long. "keep" and "america" are still there but
shortly after i put them up someone vandalized "beautiful", twice, then it
disappeared altogether. i found it in the woods a few months later, i
repaired it but haven't mustered the motivation yet to reinstall it.)
b.w.
Michael A. Terrell
William Wixon wrote:
>
> thanks again.
> (not to belabor this thread...)
> yeah, i agree, i'm sure it's going to be vandalized. almost would be good
> though if they steal it, a creative way to dispose of dumped tires. i was
> figuring it'll be rammed with a truck (that's what keeps happening to the
> plywood signs), at least this one is rubber, maybe it'll mostly bounce.
>
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/happyjoypleasedon'tlitter.jpg
>
> i change the seasonal message, try to make it cute hoping people would be
> less inclined to smash 'em.
> (these locations are traditional dumping areas (two different signs
> pictured), seems the dumping has "stopped", much to everyone's surprise.)
> (i pull the "patriotic" card with the (u.s.) flag(s), last time someone
> smashed the one sign they stole the flag.)
> (the sportsmen's club that leases the farm land put the posted sign.)
> (i made another one, plasma cut (about 8"~12" tall) letters out of 5 gal.
> vegetable oil cans from the chinese joint, "keep" "america" "beautiful".
> "beautiful" was over 6 feet long. "keep" and "america" are still there but
> shortly after i put them up someone vandalized "beautiful", twice, then it
> disappeared altogether. i found it in the woods a few months later, i
> repaired it but haven't mustered the motivation yet to reinstall it.)
Too bad you can't install it with some C4. One swing, or hit with a
truck and BOOOOOOMMMM!!! :)
William Wixon
there were blurbs in two local newspapers here about that "sculpture". one
had a photo (the same photo i posted a link to, but that paper doesn't have
an on-line link to the photo/blurb.)
i was tickled.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100120/COMM/1200345
i hope i haven't already posted this. a blurb about our "litter pick up
day" and on-going efforts.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091223/COMM/912230337
b.w.
Gunner Asch
Very nice. !
I was however concerned about this article.
What not to send to the troops
While New Windsor mom Lucy Mercado is frantically trying to get enough
postage to send holiday care packages to 400 troops in Iraq, the U.S.
Postal Service has set up guidelines on its Web site (www.usps.com) of
what not to send to the troops.
Taboo items include risque magazines and catalogs featuring half-dressed
men or women, pornography, horror movies, political materials, bulk
quantities of religious tracts and pork. Christmas ham, or even canned
Spam, is frowned upon in this Islamic country, and the post office won't
ship it."
One wonders if its being sent to US troops..or the ragheads? If its to
the troops..fuck the ragheads.
Gunner
Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.