oh oh..UPDATED CRITICAL INFO these are illegal in the road right of way

 Today 4-7-16 I noticed in the police reports I receive every week from the LFPD, that NO REPORT WAS MADE ON THE 5 ILLEGAL sandwich board signs owned and or place by SPROUT. (Unless I missed it....but I went over all reports twice and saved it for proof) Surprise surprise....can you figure out why they didn't publish those ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS of ILLEGAL signs in the road right of way? I can. Because obviously they "like"the violators and "like"the content of "their" signs. More SELECTIVE Law ENFORCEMENT.  Why does this matter?  Because if they are dishonest with this issue, you can bet your bottom $$$, they are dishonest in other matters to. And THAT should matter to EVERYONE.

Imagine...this close to helicopter landing pad in front of St Gabriels Hospital, not even secured down.....but still allowed by hospital staff. Shame on them. The hospital staff can't be too worried about windgusts or turbulance from an incoming helicopter ambulance right?  Oh, thats only if the signs are PRO PEACE/ANTIWAR right?

WHY AREN'T OUR LITTLE FALLS POLICE OFFICERS doing their JOB, as mandated by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety?  They are charged with this duty, to identify, confiscate ALL road right of way signs within city limits, as they are a ROAD HAZARD, AND DISTRACT DRIVERS, CREATING A POTENTIAL TRAFFIC HAZARD.   

How long do you think it would take the cops to find, confiscate and issue a CITATION to me, if it were my antiwar, or any other type of sign(let alone 6 on a given day as was the case for Sprout)?  I think you are all smart enough to know the answer to that question. 

See what's going on in Morrison County, is SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT of laws!!!!   Which just so happens to be ILLEGAL.    

I will continue to be the sign police, until the city police officers start doing THEIR JOB.  Promise.  And I will happily publicize all that I discover.  

 Really? This close to helo pad and stop sign?

Sometime between 12:30pm and 1:15pm this sign was moved EVEN CLOSER to the helopad. It is totally unsecured.

 LFPD called at 1:45pm to report all these illegal road right of way signs, AND the DANGEROUS UNSECURED one by helopad.  Let's see how long it takes them to respond.

Bank square. Hwy 27 and First St.  At 4:28pm I spoke with Tammi Strunk, of US Bank downtown, and nobody at the bank gave permission to Sprout to place the sign on the sidewalk in front of the bank.  She would have had to grant permission, as she is the bank manager.   Wow, really gutsy of Sprout team to do this illegal act. 

 Entrance to Zarns Oil on Haven Road North

In the video I mention Susie Prosapio, I am not sure if she is associated with Sprout, but instead she is the founder or one of the founders of The Purple Carrot, the health food co-op soon to launch here in town.  It is Carol Anderson of the Morrison County Economic Development has great knowledge of Sprout and told about the $100,000.00 grant they received. I am not sure who is involved with Sprout, and who the mystery lady(slender, blonde with curly hair in a white unmarked van with a light on top of it) at about 2:30pm on 4-1-16.  

 Intersection of 13th Ave NE and,Haven Road.....GREG KIMMAN PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR and BEN OLESON zoning administrator were both caught on camera picking up this sign and hauling it back to city hall in a red city of Little Falls pickup truck. AND NOTICE ALL THE OTHER SIGNS IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK WHEN BEN OLESON LOADS THE ONE FROM THIS LOCATION INTO THE BACK.  WHY ON EARTH ARE 2 OF THE HIGHEST PAID CITY STAFF PERFORMING THIS JOB, THAT OTHER LESSER PAID STAFF COULD PERFORM?  All on your nickel.  Shame on Sprout, Mayor Greg Zylka, the person/persons who put up these signs and the city of Little Falls.    Sprout has received THOUSANDS OF dollars in  GRANTS, and this post should embarrass the heck out of all of them.   Oh, but they don't think the laws apply to THEM.  

 When I asked him why he picked it up, he said it was on the road right of way and they were told about this sign so they picked it up.

8th St. NE and 13th Ave. in front of old Crestliner bldg

Bank square downtown Little Falls, right on sidewalk in front of US Bank

 Guess I was right about every single sign posing a danger being in the road right of way, or too close to helicopter landing pad. And the one on the sidewalk in front of US Bank must not have been legal either....otherwise why were they ALL removed, shortly after my call to LFPD AND posting this blog.

  

 Pretty obvious this IS in the road right of way.

  I wonder if into the future, we will ever see these same signs with a different message on public right of way? Seems my blog may be pretty darn effective.