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It isn’t much of a Fourth of July expectation. It won’t pop or go bang or even challenge the wildest imagination, but if you come across a St. Paul storm sewer opening absent its protective grate, call 651-266-9700, wait for the prompt and report it to the sewer crew. If you see it happening, call 911. Personally, I would pin the creep, or creeps, up against a tree with my car, but I suppose that would be insensitive.
About 10 days or so ago, it was reported that vandals had pried loose more than 150 sewer grates and let them fall into the basin. The grates weigh 150 pounds. This doesn’t play well with guys predisposed to neurosis anyway. We don’t need a kid thrown off a scooter or a walker in the gloaming breaking an ankle or a bicyclist going ass over teakettle. I had to look that phrase up, having used it all my life. It means what you think it means, suddenly losing control and balance and taking a tumble. Why tea kettle? Couldn’t f...
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