Thank God! It's the Uh, City Government

As if property values weren't plummeting enough. And as if the looming water tower you can see from our backyard isn't enough of a deterrent to keep people from buying our house (at some point in the future). This week we found a new reason to NOT buy our house, courtesy of the City of Pfugerville:

This is a view from our backyard. You can just barely make out the water tower (sarcasm) but if you click on the picture and enlarge it you can now clearly see a sign that states "No Dumping".

My guess is that this all started with a utility lot behind our house. Over a period of time this lot became overgrown and collected a lot of trash that gets blown in across the Central Texas prairie. Somebody probably complained to the city at some point because people walk through that lot (via a nice sidewalk) to get to and from the schools from the neighborhood.

So the city probably came out, mowed the lot (which they should be doing on a regular basis) and cleaned it up. Good for them. Then somebody thought, "Hey - if we put a No Dumping sign here then we won't have to clean it again! Think of the money we'll save!"

Well I have news for them. Not only is this sign now an eyesore for the neighborhood (especially us!) but it won't stop the trash from blowing into this corner lot and gathering there - especially if they don't keep it mowed!

So the intent was good - but the execution (as is usually the case for any level of government these days) is piss poor.

Thanks for the eye sore and thanks for "solving" a problem. Here's my taxes so you can go "solve" somebody else's problem.