Doofus Of The Day #645

Today's award goes to a contractor in Townsville, Australia.  A tip o' the hat to reader Snoggeramus for telling me about it.

A Townsville City Council contract crew have been forced to rethink how they clean artificial grass after they became the butt of jokes for using a lawnmower.

The crew were photographed this week by motorists mowing the fake grass on the median strip outside Supercheap Auto on Charters Towers Rd, Hermit Park.

They created a social media sensation, with residents claiming it was proof of the council wasting taxpayers' money.

A council spokeswoman, however, confirmed the contractors were not mowing the grass, rather they were cleaning it to remove cigarette butts.

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"So they're not actually mowing grass, as much as people would have laughed and pointed it out, they were using [the lawnmower] as a vacuum to suck up the butts."

A Supercheap Auto Hermit Park staff member, who did not want to be named, said the clean-up crew had supplied many belly laughs for colleagues and customers.

"We've all been getting a great laugh out of it," she said.

There's more at the link.

It must be an Australian thing . . . I mean, over here, if you want to vacuum something, you use a bloody vacuum cleaner to do it - not a lawnmower!  If I tried to vacuum our carpet with a lawnmower, I'm sure Miss D. would have several things (several very Australian-sounding things, actually!) to say to me about it . . .  What about it, Snoggeramus, mate?  Any ideas?





Peter