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A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it

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1st world problem

Many years ago, while in Jamaica for about a week, I saw on local television an ad for a product which would allow customers to... patch the potholes themselves. Yes, things were so bad that not only were the equivalents of the local councils not fixing the roads, they'd given up, and given up so long ago and so obviously that someone saw a Business Opportunity(tm). See http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/opinion/dodging-potholes-a-national-pastime_120240?profile=1096 and http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20171203/evonie-blake-how-fi-patch-pothole-jamaican-way (the Observer and the Gleaner are the two main daily newspapers in Jamaica) for how bad things really are. A banana plant (not a tree, trees are made of wood, banana plants have no wood in their structures) in a pothole ain't nothing. And, as can be seen in the pic with the Observer article, just one pothole at a time ain't nothing. And a HOA which dared to object to someone marking a pothole would quickly regret doing that.

And for those who don't know Jamaican politics... Portia Simpson-Miller, mentioned in the Observer article, first came to fame in the late 1970s when her very first campaign to become a Member of Parliament got her elected. With 105% of the vote. No, that's not a misprint or a typo. She got One Hundred and Five Percent of the vote. (The guy running against her got 15%.) She continued 'winning' elections in the same way until she 'won' election as the leader of her party (the 'Democratic Socialist' People's National Party, the other guys being the somewhat right-wing Jamaica Labour Party, yes, a conservative labour party. Only in Jamaica. Until Tony B Liar borrowed some of the JLP's ideas, anyway.) and after a bit the PNP lost an election (finally!) and she retired. Perhaps Boris could look her up, he may need an election consultant fairly soon, and she's got plenty of time on her hands.

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