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From the Des Moines Register.City design with a vast difference
An anonymous source at City Hall tipped Iowa Ear off to this aerial photo on the Polk County assessor's Web page. It's of the city of Des Moines' detention basin at 2617 Easton Blvd.I saw this on Keith Olbermann last night and laughed hysterically. It was one of 2 referrences to Iowa on the show. The other one was a woman from Spencer, who as named as the Worst Person in the World. This woman was arrested on drug charges. With her 1 call from prison she called her 18 year old son and told him to sell the marijuana in the refirgerator for bail money. The police recorded the call and then arrested the son on drug charges.
The nearly four-acre basin was constructed about two years ago and "took some of the load off of the pipe downstream" and helps prevent flooding, according to Des Moines City Engineer Jeb Brewer.
Brewer swears that consultants who work for the city did not design the $5.7 million detention basin to resemble anything, but recent e-mails to City Hall from area residents seem to have found "art" in the not-so-subtle phallic design.
"It's pretty functional," Brewer said. "There's no artistic statement in our detention basin."
2 comments:
Haha, nice design.
About the woman, I don't believe she did anything wrong, at least from the details you give. Marijuana, like alcohol, is a personal choice. To prevent people from exercising that choice is itself a crime.
All of the violence and crime associated with drugs like marijuana is a result of its prohibition, not its existence. The government CREATES problems with prohibition.
Man what a judgmental society. Worst person in the world? Welcome to 1600!
Gee.
I don't get it.
:-)
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