the green police!

Lately, I’ve began to develop some sort of disdain for the Minneapolis police. Whether it’s parking in a No Parking sign so they can go in and have Chipotle at lunch or updating their Facebook status on those giant laptops they carry in the front of their cars, I’ve been highly irritable with them as of late. So my new favorite thing? Green Police. One of my favorite colors happens to be green, so that’s already an improvement! The Green Police is an organized group of people that roam the grounds of the Glastonbury Festivals in the UK. One of their primary job duties is to prevent people from urinating in the water and hedgerows. They don’t want the urine seeping into the water supply. I can’t say I blame them. However, I’m not going to be jumping at the chance to fill out a Green Police application when there are that many bodily fluids involved.

It sounds like they do a pretty good job of convincing people cigarette butts don’t belong all over the place. And, really, I’m glad to see that anywhere. It reminds me a little of the new Downtown Improvement District (DID) people we have milling about all the time in downtown Minneapolis. Although, I can’t imagine those guys dealing with urine at all… especially since their shirts are the same color as it.

You know what the DID doesn’t have? These: