Category: acts of questionable legality

But…why?

Posted on by Nathan

 

EPILOGUE: I actually ended up calling the Public Works department and they confessed. The shrub was on the boulevard, which is a narrow strip of land on every yard that follows the street and which the city actually owns. Citizens are asked to maintain it by mowing and such. The city likes to plant trees and bushes along the boulevard, and they’re perfectly within their rights to march around town and cut or move things as they see fit. Which is what happened; that bush in particular is an aggressive grower and the Corn & Apple festival was about to be in town, so the city workers were just going along the streets and cleaning up messy shrubbery before visitors showed up.

It did make for an awkward phone call. “Hi, I live on <street> and…I think my shrub was stolen?” [ July 29th, 2014 ]

Sneaky

Posted on by Nathan

 

Reading back over the comic I of course have no idea what the codes say, and my phone actually doesn’t have a reader built in by default. BUT I solved the mystery, so if you want to know, here it is:

Where the text would be: FOOLISH HUMANS AND THEIR “DEMOGRAPHICS”! HA HA HA

Where the art would be: [HUMOROUS DEPICTION OF A ROBOT SUBDUING A SAD, FLESHY HUMAN]

Note that there isn’t a depiction in itself by scanning that code, just the description of one. There you go! [ July 29, 2014 ]