Manhole cover. Do the businesses have to maintain the sewer system too?
Posted on 09/08/2021 11:49:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A man fed up with a private road in poor condition near his southwest Florida business has a novel solution: plant a banana tree in a pothole to warn motorists away.
Last week, Bryan Raymond planted the tree in a stubborn pothole along Honda Drive just off U.S. 41 in south Fort Myers. Raymond, who owns Progress and Pride Fitness Group, said the idea of planting a banana tree ripened in his mind after having to fill holes in the street with cement multiple times.
Because Honda Drive is a private street, county officials said, it’s up to the business owners to maintain the street.
For Raymond, the banana tree is an attention-grabbing repair. …
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Come Mr. Tallyman
Tally me bananas
Daylight come and me got pothole.
classic case of going bananas...
“having to fill holes in the street with cement multiple times”
I’d be wondering if there is a sinkhole developing.
The #FloridaMan solution to a pothole problem when nobody wants to fix the road.
Manhole cover. Do the businesses have to maintain the sewer system too?
Yep they better check on a sink hole developing or their businesses may no longer be there very shortly!! They would be smart to get an engineer out there ASAP!!!
If potholes voted for Republicans they’d be eliminated within days.
“Look man, we ain’t gonna fall for the banana tree in the pothole!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orH6ZSY0W1o
I’d be waiting for the bananas. Yum.
Smart advice, but I had no idea banana trees grew that quickly. I’d guess one Florida winter will take care of the problem because if banana trees grew that far north, they would be growing them that far north.
Love it! Just Love it!
Several people were involved, their names omitted to protect the inebriated, bringing various things to the party such as buckets of asphalt patch from Home Depot, wheelbarrows, shovels, tampers, and owing to the proclivities of the organizer of our unofficial vandalism, boxed wine.
Our retail grade solution, applied by untrained and moderately intoxicated civilians, lasted about as long as the patches applied by the pros. Oh, and if anyone asks, no I don't know how that asphalt got on my tamper, given that I have a concrete drive...that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Laughing because trees just grew in the middle of the untended road naturally on old rt 40 up to Cumberland.
:D
reminds me of a lynyrd skynyrd song...
Bananas need lots of water and fertilizer to produce fruit.
Banana Trivia: The banana is not a tree. It is a grass.
“In Pittsburgh the potholes come much bigger. So a banana tree won’t do. Buses are used instead.”
LOL
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