Warwickshire County Council tells man to stop cleaning filthy signs – BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy73rzzejpqo.amp

by Fox_9810

15 comments

  1. They can tell him what they want but I don’t think they can do anything.

    Uugh not cos they may lose revenue surely

  2. There’s a pathetic irony to this bloke being told not to do this for his “health and safety”, yet the signs are so dirty a driver would likely be unable to read them at a distance.

    Like, I get it. If he falls off the ladder, he’s putting himself and others in danger. At the same time, he’s doing a genuinely good thing for the community, looking after himself in the process, meanwhile the council continue to avoid the action they should be taking in the first place.

    You can’t do right for doing wrong.

  3. A couple of weeks of work for his Instagram followers and then a BBC article. To boost his followers further.

  5. To all those saying ‘why doesn’t the council do it’s job properly’, we once again have to say ‘yeah, with what budget’. 

    Starve those responsible for the public realm of cash, the public realm decays. 

    As for the council saying they can’t support him, it should be obvious to anyone with half an ounce of sense that roadside maintenance is dangerous and the council cannot be seen to throw its weight behind untrained volunteers doing it.

  6. >”An unsung hero. But you know what? There should be a song about Cory the Sign Shiner,” one commenter said.

    We need one of the Sea Shanty acts that rose up during covid to write him one.

  7. Nothing in the article says they asked or told him to stop, so the headline is bullshit. They simply said they can’t support him, which if they did would be them accepting liability. I imagine the council “wouldn’t support” people picking up roadside litter, either.

    Frankly this seems like a decent idea for a youtube channel. Very popular ones around involving unblocking public drains/culverts/streams etc and various neglected maintenance.

  8. At what point would it be profitable to start my own business doing jobs the councils should be doing and charging whichever residents will pay a couple quid each a month to do it? Litter picking, sign cleaning etc

    There’s probably some towns out there with the kind of estates where you could make decent money doing this

  9. The Councils try to show they are suffering ‘cuts’ by making obvious cuts in service, so, they will keep spending millions on DEI initiatives, crack pot investments but they leave the roads pot holed, signs unwashed, buses cut and libraries shut. So people will get cross with the government.

  10. They aren’t telling him to stop, they are saying they can’t support him in doing so, which is something completely different and understandable from a liability stand point.

  11. It’s cause it puts em to shame man, they deserve that guilt. They have let us down and it’s time to fucking sack em to be honest. Like, what police officer really wants to protect a cunt like them?

  13. Probably near a speed camera that generates revenue.
    Near me they trim the overhanging growth right up to the camera itself and then by sheer coincidence the camera is hidden by branches.
    Amazingly the bit of road the camera actually looks at is is nicely pruned and clear.
    I’ve never understood how they manage to miss the bit covering the camera every time 🤥

  14. It’s not just that we don’t have money to improve society.

    It’s that we will actively stop others from trying to improve things….

  15. A pump sprayer with a good cleaner in it would be very fast, spray and then let the rain clean it off. not so good for insta though.

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