I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. You do "WatDat" for a dozen years or so, and what happens? Citizens start taking the law into their own hands. It's anarchy on the streets when that happens. Up on the high wire
some sculpture loomsTake the curious case of Steve Arashio. Actually, it's the case of Curious Steve Arashio. He spotted coils of wire "above and fronting the fancy Punahou Cliffs condo with its great waterfall cascading down a cliff into an underground stream. Could this "WatDat" be a fancy accent piece to this gorgeous water feature?
"The best I could come up with was the cable installers are trying to one-up the street graffiti artist with higher class Aerial Graffiti! With installations like this, the Kamoku-Pukele proposed electric line above Manoa will be, like, beautiful."
Arashio also enclosed snapshots and, unable to wait for the WatDat Rapid Response Team to pull out his thumb, actually started calling the telephone and cable companies. Both blamed the other.
But a follow-up from Oceanic revealed that the coil might be fiber-optic cable, left over from a previous installation, and that a large banyan tree nearby kept the loops from being neatly lashed to a utility pole.
See? Whining works.
Burl Burlingame
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