So far the council says it has spent $1,500 (£1,190) on removing googly eyes from seven of the eight sculptures affected.
I’ll do it for $1000!
Seriously, what is the cost involved in removing googly eyes from metal sculptures, other than wages you’d be paying anyway for the employee that cleans it up? I could buy maybe they have to use some special adhesive remover to protect it long term, but $1500 worth??
Not to mention handling media requests, as it’s constantly in the news.
There’s no length they wouldn’t go to to prevent people from enjoying things. Next they’ll probably find the culprit and press terrorism charges on him.
alternatively they could hypothetically just remove it during routine maintenance. Also its rather unlikely that they’d really need to use the ladder- I rather doubt people are scaling sculptures to slap them on things. it’s going to be mostly in reach of the ground.
A bigger problem is that most cities and towns will have an ordinance requiring immediate removal- meant to combat graffiti; and while most cities won’t be arsed to follow the ordinance themselves when Karen calls… well, it’s just less annoying to send the dang truck on a special job.
There is a chance whoever is doing this is kind of an asshole and is sticking the eyes on with some kind of absurd adhesive that is a total pain in the ass to remove. Like a blob of some serious epoxy shit that has to be carefully chipped off or melted with solvents to avoid damaging the sculpture
But in all likelihood it’s just a hugely inflated labor cost and they’re self adhesive with something mild
I’ll do it for $1000!
Seriously, what is the cost involved in removing googly eyes from metal sculptures, other than wages you’d be paying anyway for the employee that cleans it up? I could buy maybe they have to use some special adhesive remover to protect it long term, but $1500 worth??
$15 an hour for the union groundskeeper, minimum six hour shift.
$5 depreciation for using the ladder.
$75 for health and safety
$25 an hour for the manager to answer a phone call about where the ladder was
$5 mileage on the maintenance truck.
Shit adds up.
Not to mention handling media requests, as it’s constantly in the news.
There’s no length they wouldn’t go to to prevent people from enjoying things. Next they’ll probably find the culprit and press terrorism charges on him.
alternatively they could hypothetically just remove it during routine maintenance. Also its rather unlikely that they’d really need to use the ladder- I rather doubt people are scaling sculptures to slap them on things. it’s going to be mostly in reach of the ground.
A bigger problem is that most cities and towns will have an ordinance requiring immediate removal- meant to combat graffiti; and while most cities won’t be arsed to follow the ordinance themselves when Karen calls… well, it’s just less annoying to send the dang truck on a special job.
There is a chance whoever is doing this is kind of an asshole and is sticking the eyes on with some kind of absurd adhesive that is a total pain in the ass to remove. Like a blob of some serious epoxy shit that has to be carefully chipped off or melted with solvents to avoid damaging the sculpture
But in all likelihood it’s just a hugely inflated labor cost and they’re self adhesive with something mild