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??
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.
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