The City Sold Engraved Bricks to Fund a Playground — One Person Used Theirs to Call Out Its Finances Instead
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City government is not exactly known for being a good steward of money, but they rarely get called out for their wasteful spending.
What would you do if your city board had wasted millions of dollars on various projects, but then tried sell engraved bricks to raise funds for a school playground?
That is what happened in the city in this story, so one person bought a few bricks and had them engraved with critical messages calling out the board members.
This is a really funny way to put your complaints into stone. Check out the full story below and see what you think of what happened.
Former School Board member writes ‘disparaging comments’ on bricks for new playground
For context, the city I live in “discovered” the school district was roughly $10 million in debt.
They need to make some major changes to overcome that debt.
So, one thing they did was reorganize the school buildings. They combined the middle schools into one building as well as the two high schools into another building.
This left one building completely empty, and then out the Montessori, Charter and alt high school all into one of the old middle school buildings.
A playground is good for the kids, but it isn’t cheap.
The Charter school and Montessori then had no playground, but instead, a very muddy soccer pitch.
Efforts to build a playground for these kids was finally initiated, pushed back on a lot by the city and school board and so on.
Why donate to a city that mismanages funds?
A fund raiser was started in which you can spend $250 to buy a brick, which will be used in the building of the eventual playground.
This city has had a string of mismanaging money. A few years ago, they decided to purchase a gondola (tourism reasons cited). It cost close to $10 million. It then sat uncovered in a parking lot for several years.
How do these officials keep getting elected?
Mind you, this place is located in a rainforest. The gondola is now rusted out, and they want to ship it out to be repaired to the tune of ~$40 million dollars.
The city also wants to have a new city hall, but refuses to use the empty school building, or other perfectly suitable alternatives.
This is pretty funny.
Now to the petty.
A local who was on the school board previously has purchased some bricks for the playground, and on these bricks he had messages printed out such as how the city wanted to fund a gondola that has sit unused for years literally rotting (the city will ALWAYS prioritize tourists).
His pettiness is set in stone.
Another brick mentions that the city preferred to fund a city hall over a playground and so on. He even went so far as to call out other board members.
The fact this guy is just.. literally putting in stone how horrible these people are? Priceless value petty.
Maybe the board members should take this to heart.
The current board members are very butt hurt over it.
The residents here, meanwhile, are celebrating.
This is the type of petty revenge that most people can get behind. If you can’t get the board members voted out, at least embarrass them.
Let’s see what the people in the comments think about this funny story.
Bricks shouldn’t be used on playgrounds.
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I think this commenter is exactly right.
This is what should be happening.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a woman who refused to let her neighbor have access to his spot, telling him to drive over the curb instead.
Here is someone who knows where this took place.
How could they justify that much money?
While funny, this type of thing won’t stop the city from continuing to waste money.
At least everyone knows that people are upset about it, though.
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