Thursday, August 7, 2014

Missing Big Belly

At the Southwest corner of Lunt Avenue and Glenwood a solar-paneled City of Chicago garbage can
named Big Belly once rested, but now it's gone missing. This was the only waste receptacle on the northern exit of the Morse Avenue CTA Redline. A public transportation hub that many residents use daily. 

The commuters also heavily use Big Belly. So much, that many times it's so full, it overflows. Sadly, the Lunt exit to the CTA doesn't get nearly the attention the south exit gets. On the south end there are upwards nearly a half dozen garbage cans, including three Big Belly's.

Three theories are floating around.

1) Did Big Belly get kidnapped and will mysteriously show up at my front door, whereas the Alderman can claim I stole it? It's an election year and we can't put any dirty trick past him.

2) Did it break and need to go in for repairs? If so, why didn't they offer a replacement in the mean time.

or 

3) Did the City of Chicago, the CTA, and SSA #24 just get sick and tired of always having to pick up the endless amounts of garbage that overflowed out of Big Belly's lid on a daily basis? 

My theory is #3.

4 comments:

Craig Gernhardt said...

Lunt and Glenwood Big Belly in action.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152550715327145&set=o.168987773305&type=1&permPage=1

billyjoe said...

Who is the person now writing this blog? The content certainly does not resemble Craig's (bad)grammar, sentence (mis)construction, (mis)punctuation, and (mis)spelling!

toto said...

Craig:
If you every want to see your precious Big Belly again, please have Joe Joe Moore deposit $10,000 in campaign funds in small un marked bills in J Albertos pizza box under a free mulch pile. I will disclose the location of the mulch pile in my next missive to you. You have 24 hours to do this. Do not call the police or the FBI. If you do not follow my instructions, we will begin scouring Rogers Park alleys for rats and beging dropping them live into the Big Belly. The piercing screams of the rodents will drown out the sounds of gun fire in RP endangering thousands of residents.

(This is a joke you know)

I heartily suggest you use Joe Lake as the courier,

rogerspark60645 said...

toto, That's pretty funny!

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