This story is going around the net. Just wondering if any of you have seen it. INS - DodgeBoard.com

hoarsewhisperer · #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2006, 12:56 PM

This story is going around the net. Just wondering if any of you have seen it.

". . .have a friend who is president of his homeowner's association in the
Washington, D.C. suburbs. They were having a terrible problem with litter
near some of his association's homes. The reason according to Wallace (my
friend) is that six very large, luxurious new houses are being built
right next to their community.

The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the
construction sites and included bags from McDonalds, Burger King and
7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty
bottles, etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general
contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the
neighborhood, to no avail. He called the city, county, and police and
got no help there either.

So here's what his community did They organized about twenty folks,
named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged to
to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is what
they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.

They bought navy blue baseball caps and had the initials "INS"
embroidered in gold on the caps.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people
might, mistakenly, think the letters really stand for.

After the Inner Neightborhood Services group's first lunchtime pickup
detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras; 46
out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work the
next morning--and haven't come back yet.

It has been ten days now.

The General Contractor, I'm told, is madder than hell, but can't say
anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens.
Wallace and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal
personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in
their homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the vote
to approve formation of the new subcommittee--and besides, they informed
the INS in advance of their plans and according to Wallace the INS said
basically, "Have at it"!"

OLDHAG · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2006, 03:10 PM

Now that is funny and works.

K C Muffin · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2006, 10:18 PM

I got it too. Sounds like a plan to me. Do ya'all in Dodge have many new subdivisions going up? We do up here. In fact, one just north of our house. I gotta say, though........the Mexican guys, be they legal or not, worked from dawn to dusk and didn't take the afternoon siesta that the white guys did. I know it must get hot up there on the roof. I think somebunny needed either a raise or a bonus in their check for doing stuff nobody else wanted to. I also saw them up on the roofs many Sundays. Definitely not union guys!!!