Contractors sprucing up North Promenade took the astonishing short cut when they came across the abandoned sock tied to a railing.
Passerby Andrew Purcell, 22, from Leyland who is working in the area, said: "I think painting round a sock instead of just removing it could quite possibly be the laziest thing I've ever seen.
"It does look quite funny tied there, but I suppose it must be annoying for the council if they are trying to improve the look of Blackpool."Yaeh sock it to em Blackpool!
Years ago there was a story here in the states about a highway crew that was repaving some road. They came across a dead deer in the the middle of the road and simply paved over it.
ReplyDeleteThen there's the road crew that painted a white line over a dead badger.
And how about this one
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it is more sad than funny or if it is funnier than it is sad.
ReplyDeleteHi Bob, I would think the workmen were "having a Laugh", just to see exactly what "we" would say, they certainly arose some interest.
ReplyDeleteAh, there's a touch of class about that level of uninvolvement all the same.
ReplyDeletepadraig:I wonder if he would have painted over one of the occasional drunks that fall asleep against the railings.
ReplyDeleteYou know those that keep disappearing whenever you do laundry? Well, now we know what happens to them.
ReplyDeleteI used to work for Barrow Corpy Building dept and Know someone who painted over a clock on the wall at Cambridge St School once many years ago ----It was -----
ReplyDeleteJohn: maybe you will see him next time you look in a mirror eh?
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