TEXAS INGENUITY

jakdad · Post by **jakdad** » September 18, 2007, 10:59 pm

My cousin has a friend who is president of his homeowners association in the Dallas , Texas 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 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 Neighborhood Services group's first lunch time 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"!
SO FOLKS, I THINK YOU COULD SAY THAT TEXAS INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN!

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » September 18, 2007, 11:11 pm

thats freaking great! wish this happened more often, I do hardwood flooring for 7 years now and only work for one good home builder, the others dont give a crap about anything but making 500 bucks a sq foot and drive toyotas (the good contractor drives a ford too)
also glad we only use a few builders and its mostly refinish work in already owned homes

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » September 18, 2007, 11:22 pm

best thing i have heard all day.

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » September 19, 2007, 1:23 am

What a great story Jim!, and nice to see the community pulling together to over come these bums the builders,the standards have fallen in recent years due to the imported(yesterday couldn`t spell tradesman,today am one)so called tradesmen.

Alan

MattsIASlickShop · Post by **MattsIASlickShop** » September 19, 2007, 9:18 am

sweet Idea. look for the video of the guy that took his truck out looking for day laborers. prolly should read this too... :oops:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrat ... enuity.asp

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » September 19, 2007, 11:35 am

Well, it gave me a warm fuzzy for a few minutes.