It seems that Portland Oregon, the home of the Rose Festival Parade is ready to go to war over duct tape. For years local tradition has allowed parade attendees to mark out and reserve prime parade viewing locations with duct tape so that they don’t have to wait hours on the curb to see the parade. The town is up in arms over attempts to end this tradition and it has escalated to the point that its is being viewed as a dispute over private ownership of public property.
Portland Commissioner Randy Leonard reports that what he calls the “duct tape affair” has generated more public comment than discussions about the Iraq War and the FBI’s anti-terrorism force combined. This has become such a big deal with Portland locals that the town council is actually going to have to pass a resolution for or against this practice.
While we are all for the use of as much duct tape as possible, this is one issue where the solution seems so self-evident that it wouldn’t call for wasting the time of a legislative body. If someone is willing to wait by the side of the road for a parade, it certainly isn’t fair for a last minute arrivee to push them out of their place.
Duct tape can do a lot of things for you, but standing in line is not one of them.
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