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Syracuse is ridiculous.

Sarah went back to the old apartment yesterday to pick up a mattress and found we had a GARBAGE "VIOLATION" care of the City of Syracuse. Mind you, she's lived in the place for at least three years and has never even heard of one, let alone received one, so she's got no idea what it means. Apparently we were cited for "EXCESSIVE GARBAGE" and "IMPROPER CONTAINERIZATION." And we have 24 hours to "fix" it or we would be fined $150 for EVERY DAY it was not fixed.

Let me count the plethora of retarded with you.

1) THE WORD CONTAINERIZATION.
2) The violation was charged at 10:30am. On a Tuesday. Most normal people are at work 'til typically 5pm. Guess when everything in the city closes? OH YEAH 5pm.
3) The Department of Public Works is a man on a cell phone that doesn't care about your citation.
4) "Excessive" refers to "larger than a washer/dryer combo." DPW man doesn't like when you ask if this is standard or industrial sized combos.
5) Our 15 kitchen-sized bags were within that limit... until our neighbors decided to put their garbage with ours...
6) ...and until the homeless people decided to rip open said bags.
7) There was a dildo and dirty pads in one of the bags. And it was rifled through.
8) PEOPLE ARE FUCKING NASTY.
9) There are no city dumps in the actual city limits. You have to go to Liverpool or Jamesville instead.
10) Oh yeah, those dumps also close at 5pm.
11) And don't open 'til 8am.

Sarah and I were left with quite a conundrum. Our only idea was to leave it all as-is and send the citation to Jane... who most of the garbage belonged to.

But Sarah's dad came to the rescue - his neighbor works for the city garbage department. And, it turns out, his OTHER neighbor ALSO works for the department. And they got together and chatted about the retarded that is the man who signed the violation.

And they're going to pick up the garbage for us. In their city garbage trucks.

FUCKING BOOM SYRACUSE. YOU ARE FOILED AGAIN - BY YOUR OWN KIND!