Toronto man builds park stairs for $550, irking city after $65,000

>>134256861
Power tripping faggots

>Astl says he hired a homeless person to help him

ffs

I bet he paid below min wage

>$550
Probably bought the lumber at Home Hardware. Could've done it for less.

>>134257055
$10 for 3 hours

>which only ended up costing $550 – a far cry from the $65,000-$150,000 price tag the city had estimated for the job.

Seriously though, why does nobody expose the corruption between local politicians and construction companies?

>>134256861
He made the mistake of being a white male. Always get a minority or a woman to represent you so you can cry racism/soggy knees in response to any criticism.

oh no!

the goyum know they can fill potholes themselves

shit!!!

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this city blows money like no other, fucking disgusting

are you just learning now that our government is incompetent?

I say put that old man and his homeless bum incharge.

>>134256861

>>134256861

This story is retarded... now the city gonna have to tear down this guys shitty steps because if someone falls they can blame the city for the shit for not removing this fucks make shift steps.

If anything though he will have the real steps quicker.

>>134257168
Is this a meme?

>>134256861
Asshole didnt even make them handicap accessible, my power scooter cant go down those steps, tear em down

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>>134256861
MR TRUDEAU TEAR DOWN THESE STAIRS AND BUILD SOME CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AFRICAN STAIRS.

>>134257168
jesus christ

the homeless guy wouldn't even be able to pay for the calories he burned

>>134257180
Reminds me of a vacation to Victoria BC I took where they had just painted these fag flag crosswalks that cost $14000 each according to the news lmao

>>134257180
What are you going to do about it, arrest them?

I just got done building a deck myself. I live on the county, yet I still had to have three separate building inspections, a septic site inspection, and $300 in various fees. I really hate government.

>>134256861
>Im not quite sure how to feel about this
cuck

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>>134257423
sorry forgot my flag.

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Yeah and after one winter that shit tier wood rots, some fat woman breaks her leg on a rotten step and sues him for a million

>>134257341
4rd d. chess

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do it for the party.

>>134256861

the city should tear down those stairs, he's a mechanic, not an engineer.

but they should reimburse him and get a better price for the stairs. the problem is that the city is most likely responsible for the stairs should something happen.

at most that's a 12,000 USD job if you wanted to do it with concrete and some nice cast iron railing. I'm talking real nice.

No way that should put the city out of pocket for more than 5k if they built wooden stairs with some decorative railing.

>>134257514
Good job you bought all those guns to prevent government pushing you around lmao

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>make shitty tiny half-assed stairs with only one guardrail and no safety oversight
>act upset when the public authority needs to rip them up because when they inevitably fail due to your shitty lowes lumber and crap nails the city gets sued

>>134256861
There is nothing to prevent your drunken ankle from tipping over the one side of them there. Theyre shit and i hate them
>lolberg paves a road, disaster ensues
There is no sealant on his particle boards. Will rot in three weeks. Slippery af

>>134256861
>A guy potentially saved the city 149,450 buckaroos
>leaf says he doesnt know how to feel about it

>>134257341
rofl, jesus you sound terribly incompetent

>>134257553
looks like it's treated wood.

>>134256861
I don't think faggots or cripples can use it, so we'll have to sue you for six gorillion dollars.

>>134256861
A hero to us all.

>>134257180
I fucking know.
In my town, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on preliminary studies finding out how much projects will cost.
Jesus fucking Christ.

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>>134257621
need more culturally sensitive stairs white boi made of rocks loosely joined with dung and spit yeeeaah mah nigga.

>>134257423
Those steps aren't diverse enough.
There should be an incline plane, you abliest scum.
Also, there's a huge Indian population in Canaduh.
Where's the toilet paper?

>>134257702
At the top you find vaginas

>>134257628
I had my AR on my back when the inspectors came out. I guess that's some consolation.

>>134257453
In my city an old man threw white paint on thm

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Why the fuck did he not build them to regulation? What a retard

>>134256861
Government is shit.

But those stairs look poorly designed.

>>134257621

> 12,000 for concrete and rebar

You're a faggot. I would do it for less than $2,000

>>134256861
>>134257032
No, this isn't power tripping.

This is corruption.

>>134257748
this

>>134257852
tear em up and pave it with white boi bones nigga

>>134257793
Sounds like they hit you with fees for being a passive aggressive bitch

>>134257180
>Seriously though, why does nobody expose the corruption between local politicians and construction companies?
The Single-entry bookkeeping system is literally built for this kind of theft.

>>134257884
Theyd be chipped to fuck and made from ground teeth or some shit

>>134256861
yes faggot
these contracts are given to the lowest bidders, aka "preferred" "contractors"

>>134257443
Are all Canadians this retarded?

>>134257830
What a bigot. Cars had done burn outs on the ones in Victoria.

>>134256861
those stairs look like a lawsuit waiting to happen

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>>134257956
yeah inshallah nigga we make it out of gay wite boi teefz

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>>134257830
based af

>>134257443
You can get rice for 1350 calories per dollar

>>134257956
He's not a chink, anon.

>>134257929
Nah, the inspector was cool. They don't hit you with fees if you piss them off, they just fail you for ridiculous things.

For example, on my deck, I had to have three inspections at certain stages of construction. Each inspection could be a different inspector. So, if you were to piss off the second or third inspector, he could go back and say the footers aren't up to code and you'd have to rip everything out and start over.

>>134257180
What are you talking about? Montreal's $700K gazebo, $2M granite stumps, $13M fountain upgrade, and $40M bridge lights are totally great value for our tax dollars.

>>134257748
>Where's the toilet paper?
Curry Streetshitter here,

Nigga just use your fingers

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>click on other stories on site
>find this
They killed a white babby to give this nigglet hands

>>134258093
He's canadian, I'm sure he knows all about rice

>>134257884

I'm sure you could build a house for that price too, if you can find the right materials to steal, spic.

A small section of road near where I kice, probably less than 100 ft, cost over $3.8 million and is rising everyday. Been under three contractors already and it's been nearly a year since they started. Construction and cities are a hotbed for rampant autism.

>>134256861
free market fixed it.

>>134258173
You think those are baby arms fucktard

They gave it a 65 grand estimate because that is how everyone gets paid

I personally guarantee you the stairs will be taken down.

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>>134256861
full-sized image

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>>134258275
babby hand stealing nigger detected

>>134257133
No kidding, that's a fuckton for that little amount of wood

>>134258144
40M bridge lights? What are they lined with diamonds?

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>>134257180
My town on long island is so fucking corrupt because of all the back scratching between wops.

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I work in local government, AMA

>>134258144
>It doesn't matter that doing something is bad as long as it's not quite as bad as this other thing.

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>>134257480
Corrupt officials should get the death penalty.

>>134258093
Rice itself is not adequate nutrition. Kale costs ~$2 a bundle, which weighs out to ~200 grams of leaf matter; you're supposed to eat a minimum of 700g of nutritious vegetable matter a day to remain healthy, and also 400g of fruits - vegetables and fresh produce in general are expensive, while also having very littel calories per dollar. And you can't expect a homeless man to cook rice. And rice itself tastes unpalatable, just plain carbs. Poor people cannot afford nutritious calories, it's a fact.

>>134258384
looks like a shit hole.

It will cost the town 10K or more to rip them out.

>>134256861
People are shitting on this and I don't get why, this is fucking brilliant. The government can complain about them not being to code, but the truth is that he has single-handedly exposed the ridiculous corruption endemic to publicly funded projects such as these. He wasn't trying to prove he could do the job just as well for far less, he's highlighting just how fucking ridiculous the 65k price tag is. Even if it cost 10x more to build this to regs, which is stupidly generous, where does the other 60k go? I would genuinely like the answer to that question.

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>>134256861
>I thought they were talking about an escalator
Ha

>>134258710
Wait, wrong image.

>>134256861
>Adi
Fucking Nazi, i hope the fine his ass and burn the stairs after they build a wall around it.

>>134257637
>UN Fag

Opinion discarded

>>134258740

It's good enough.

>>134258384

Crap job but good initiative.

>>134258510

How bad is it and what is the most common waste of tax dollars?

>>134257443
He gets food for free.

>>134257180
what, do you want your kneecaps broken or something friend

He should have waited for the city to pay Schlomo Goldsteinberg construction co. to build it using non cis white male labour.

>>134256861
ffs, the original image in the story is 960x540. why did you post such a shitty resolution? you're just like this old fuck, with his rickety ass stairs and your rickety ass image. fuck you.

>>134257180
it is not corrpution. politicians and government emplyees are just that stupid. dont need to think when it is other people's money you spend

low how steep those steps are, wouldn't be surprise if this old fag himself gets kill in it.

>>134256861

An old man built some stone steps down the escarpment here in hamilton at a place people had been asking the city to do. Well the city was pissed but everyone likes them so they just put a sign warning people.

>>134256861
>treads 3'-0" wide
>stringers spaced 12" apart

I have no image for how triggered I am

>>134258596
Homeless eat better than the working poor.

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>>134258867
Sorry that my choice of aesthetic flag that serves no purpose other than to stop things like SWEDEN YES or A FUCKING LEAF upset you so much, aussie.

>>134258490
the funny thing about my back it's that its located on my cock.

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>>134256861
Over the pond you lads all have this blame and sue culture, that has slowly seeped over to europe over the years.

I would that say they shouldnt tear it down, but if they dont they will just get some person who will fall down it break their leg and end up suing because of buidling regulation violations.

I came across a similar case at work the other day where some work mate had fitted a disabled toilet, sink and handrails to an out of date drawing.
It was only until later that when someone from the council got a tape mesaure out ready to sign it off only to realise that it was fitted incorectly and had to be ripped out along with 2 other disabled toilets in the buidling costing a total of nearly £10,000!
(Pic related the drawing that should have been used.)

>>134258384

two stringers right in the middle. first fuck that steps on the edge is going to roll down that hill and sue that old fuck. what a shit job.

>>134258596
could buy a pot to cook the rice, a sack of rice and a bottle of vitamins and still have $ left over

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>>134256861

>>134259110

He could have gone to the nearest process pharma or chemical plant and gotten some sweet aluminium with no slip treads stairway with compliant handrails for free as they are constantly tearing them down for different set-ups.

>>134257965
>aka "preferred" "contractors"
aka union mafia

>>134258982
Honestly, I'm asked to put in a certain number of work hours a year and that ends up being around 5.33 hours a day. So in an average work day I'm supposed to work less than two-thirds of the 8 hours I'm scheduled for and management has to work even less. Not sure if this is how every department works though. Also vendors tend to build systems that you can't wiggle out of easily so you end up gripped by the balls if you decide to play the free market for a cheaper alternative.

Using $550 (ie cheap materials), that shit will fall apart after the first winter. Give it 4 months. You take a woodshop class and you know what water does to wood. The city has a planner for all these factors, the old dumbass saw a quick fix and didn't take in any planning.

>>134258622
Which is hilarious because you could give some teenagers $100 to do it

>>134256861
really just shows how wasteful government is when it comes to almost anything

all Governments should have a financial accountability office led by a few old men like this guy and the council has to sign off on any budget shit for any Gov expense

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>Cmon goy. Help me build this Museum. I'll pitch in 20 million. That's practically the whole cost.
>Thanks for the commitment goy. Here's my half at 20 million.
>Oy vey what do you mean cost overrun? We had an agreement. I would pay a quarter of the cost and you would pay the rest. Better pay up goy.
>You aren't a nazi are you goy? Where's your 90% of the cost you agreed to pay?
>Here's your museum goy. Thanks for paying 94.3% of the cost.
T. (((Asper))) foundation.

>>134257180
*gas tax in California increases*

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I would love to trip down those stairs and sue the city and that man.

>>134256861
That's how y'all build stairs in Canada (?)

What they are not telling you is that $60,000 of the estimate was for a multi year study on the potential impact of a set a stairs on the local transgendered muslim amputee parkour enthusiasts.

>>134257453
They had those fag crosswalks in my town too. What a goddamn waste of money.

>>134256861
Heh, good on him. My dad used to do shit like that when I was growing up. If shit was broken at the park he took us to, he'd just up and fix it. Wooden platform at the top of the slide was missing a board? He took some measurements, went to the local Scotty's (a hardware store that used to be a thing, for you young'uns) and got a length of lumber. Cut it down and replaced the missing one. Swing had a broken chain? He'd replace the links. Merry-go-round squealing like a tortured pig? He let me spray the WD40 on it.

And no bureaucratic faggot ever gave him any shit for it, neither.

>>134259171
How so? The homeless people I see look sick.
>>134259444
>>134259444
Yeah, he could also get a job, right? And cheap vitamins are worthless, just chelated minerals with no bioavailability.

>>134257940
Explain.

>stairs look like patio stairs and will likely last 1 winter
>Stairs literally lead to guardrail
>why his friends were going down that way makes me wonder
>ignored cities plan to build proper stairs and probably more since the price tag is 65k
>hired homeless guy off the books and took advantage of him and the government
>while 65k seems like a lot for stairs(and it is) it pays LEGALLY for all the workers, the trucks, the materials probably overtime
>also there is no way in hell only stairs were going to be built and there was likely a bigger project in store.
>boomer steps in to do it da right way mhhpp
>boomer doesn't know what proper funding is
>boomer thinks the world can be bought at home depot and that wood is da best material around

>>134257180
Because you keep voting to increase the state

>>134257168
I get this joke.

>>134259515
even if all that was true do you really think it would cost 50 grand to build the stairs?

He did it with wood for 500.
Don't you think maybe... 5000 would be enough for a water-proof metal stairs? or wood with the right coatings or whatever is needed?

>>134259515

$550 was still too much.

I could have done a better job with $300 at menar's with treated wood, anti-slip material.

It's the fact that the local governments are full of criminals and idiots and this old man wasted $500.

>>134258384
Does the person who uses the steps then have to climb over that guardrail? Very bad placement

>>134256861
You dont fuck with by-law officers or the bureaucrats of ontario/toronto boards/regulators.

THey are some of the worst people to deal with.

Way too much power to the point of having a god complex.

Good in some ways definitely bad in may other ways.

OY VEY GOYIM, HOW ARE YOUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS GOING TO SKIM YOUR TAX MONEY BY MAKING UP BULLSHIT PROJECTS IF YOU DO THEM YOURSELVES

STOP

You only have to drive down the road to know how corrupt construction companies are and how inept politicians are. Every construction project I drive by is literally 20 guys, 2-3 actually working and then 17 just loafing around doing jack shit. The wasted money, time and traffic jams caused by these assholes must be immense.

I once witnessed some asshole worker in front of my house spend 8 hours putting up temporary construction fencing the length of 4-5 houses. Something that would've taken me 10 minutes tops.

>>134257133
I'm assuming he included the tools in the bill.

>>134257535
I KNEW IT! The fucking Commie was an Aussie! They said it was a leaf, but I knew the truth!

>>134259472

So the office/job you work for allots 8 working hours that is planned and payed for in advance by tax dollars yet you only see about 5ish hours worth of pay for it?

That sounds like embezzlement.

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>>134259804

>>134257301
This is actually true. If this was a woman the headline would be:
>Master Carpenter Proves City Wrong on Stairwell Costs - AND SHE'S A WOMAN: the subtle sexism of city funding

>>134259896
>I once witnessed some asshole worker in front of my house spend 8 hours putting up temporary construction fencing the length of 4-5 houses. Something that would've taken me 10 minutes tops.
>a literal "go getter"

Go getters get booted ASAP by the ones you make look bad.

>>134257621
>he's a mechanic, not an engineer
as a carpenter and framer, I'm not an engineer, but I have installed plenty of stairs in my career.
2-3 stringers and some fucking wood to sit on top is as basic as anyone would need to go with something like this.

>>134258185
Underrated

>>134259515
>rebuild stairs every year for 120 years on 65k

>>134258384
The stringers being in the center fucking irks me. It's not hard to place them farther apart, making them more stable.

>>134259804

That's much too dear....they could be precast cement off site with handrails already installed like a max 7-8K US$ plus 1600 for the truck crane and maybe 1800 for the finishers and earth lags.

>>134259845

Don't you think maybe... 5000 would be enough for a water-proof metal stairs?

You can buy treated wood and build a solid staircase for less than $500.

The fact is, I don't see $500 worth of materials on that staircase.

At most, $150 tops.

https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/decking-deck-products/ac2-pressure-treated-decking/c-13469.htm?brandName_facet=AC2

https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/lumber-boards/treated-wood-products/treated-boards-decking-lumber-timbers/c-13124.htm?Spec_ProductType_facet=CedarTone+Treated+Board&Spec_ProductType_facet=Pressure+Treated+Board&noResultsFound=true

I had bought twice as much wood as this guy has in his staircase for less than $75.

What in the fuck did he use $500 on?

>>134259515
Wood looks treated.
>woodshop class
Stay in school, kid.

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>>134256861
This is why we have a subway line to nowhere and haven't had a useful subway expansion in decades despite a desperate need.

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>>134260017
It's more like the minimum work you have to do to not get fired. Everyone I know works even past the 5pm bell to finish things up but technically you don't have to. It's also a weird time-punch system so it doesn't track everything you do unless you go in and track it for them.

>>134260139
Yeah but your failing to understand that city workers get paid decent money . They will likely make it a week project and I speculate that there would be more done than just stairs. You cant just hire some homeless guy, pay him 10 bucks and go to town

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>>134257168
Kek

>>134259896
>get paid by the hour
>thinking someone is going to finish it quicker
They're gonna be given more work load if they finish faster. Why work more than your lazy faggot coworker who will get just as much as you when you too can be a faggot and earn easy money? Your boss doesn't care: they already got the contract.

>>134256861
LOOOL We had a similar situation in NB! Some local contractor wanted to build a bridge but apparently we needed to spend a shit ton more to hire some foreigners to do it. Fucking libshits

>>134260256

Is the pay at least worth it?

>>134257423
The best stairs are made from old railroad ties sunk into the dirt.

>>134257180

Government going to government every fucking time.

>>134256861
Like in that Jim Carey numerology movie?

>>134260148
>5000 would be enough for a water-proof metal stairs?

Get them free and tell pharma or chemical company you'll put a plaque with their name on it. They have tons of them unused sitting around from process dismantles.

>>134258481
They're made out of solid diamond, lit by the burning souls of elder dragons, bound there by foulest necromancy.

>>134257621
this mindset is really depressing. the modern world sucks everything good out of life. it's why everyone is so depressed and have to be on pills and hooked to entertainment devices

>>134259804
out of the heap of shit you wrote, the only legitimate concern is the first arrow.

anyone can confirm this faggots maladroit spew?

>>134257423
Those aren't stairs. Thats Africas first railroad

>>134256861
yfw this old guy sparks a stair competition of people building better stairs over and over again until satisfied. it will still be cheaper than the city paying for it

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http://shop.fsindustries.com/product/s3038-al-a-welded-aluminum-prefab-stairways-osha-design/110103

This is how retarded the government and locals are today.

>$65,000-$150,000 price tag
Smells like money laundering

>>134258740
s'okay, we'll accept that one.

>>134257830
fuck, thats a good idea if this shit ever comes to vegas

>>134260287

City workers should only empty bins, sweep streets, cut grass, pick-up litter and move snow.

>>134259883
People had already been going up and down the slope. There's probably a path running along the inside of that guardrail.

>>134258490
It's the entire county. It's one of the most heavily taxed in the country yet still has a fucked up balance sheet. The state had to monitor its finances through NIFA an action usually reserved for niggernests upstate like Newburgh.

>>134256861
I could have built cement steps with a steal handrail for $550

>t. Mason

>>134257180
Its not even the construction companies. You and I would both take on a project to get paid way more than its worth. The government is being fucking retarded because the government doesn't pay out of their own pockets.

>>134256861

Proof that "b-b-b-but MUH ROADS" argument is eternally BTFO

Everyone here should be Libertarian, taxes are theft and used to feed niggers and spics so they can breed like rats leading to dysgenics.

>>134260385
Gov benies make it worth it.

The city is angry they were not able to employ a bunch of migrants in order to pad their employment numbers

>>134258144
if you gave me 70k I would stand up there for 8 hours rain/shine/snow and hold a maglight only if my job title was official and shit. maybe something like
>light man
>keeper of the light
>son of the morning...wait...not this one
>cotton lighted joe

>>134260148
>What in the fuck did he use $500 on?

cocaine and homeless guys

>>134260788

Piggyback rides down.

>>134256861
HOLY FUCK I USED THESE STAIRS NOT 1 HOUR AGO, ASK ME ANYTHING!

I mean, the stairs look like shit, but he's in the right mindset.

>>134257341
This. You can't build anything on public property without paying the jews off(and rightly so), that's stupid. See you at communion.

>>134260548
>the only legitimate concern is the first arrow.
How so? If you've ever gone hiking, trails and bridges are held together like this, sometimes with natural logs. Yet they don't fall apart and become "unsafe" in some catastrophic manner. Why are these stairs any different?

>>134260879

go back and fall off them to sue the old man and the city

>>134260879
Why do you still live in such a shit country?

>>134260582
>he thinks the city council didn't look for shit like this, ordered it, then will claim the $60k is for installation

>>134260879
take pics of the stairs, youre a fuckin hero man. savor the moment you walked on stairs

>>134260634
This is why Europe is a shithole .City workers often work for less than normal wages especially when it comes to the trades. This is basically made up with pension packages and benefits. City workers do all of what you said and more
>operate transit systems
>keep you safe via law enforcement
>keep you safe via fire fighters
>clerical stuff
and more

>>134258596
I spent 2 dollars on kale once this year, a pack of seeds that is. I have eaten more kale than I really care to talk just about every day since. That shit grows like a weed too. I have yet to find somewhere it won't grow. You could seriously grow a personal supply of kale in the cracks of a sidewalk. How they convinced people it's worth $2 for a handful that was picked days ago is beyond me.

>>134256861
> $550
Vs.
> $65,000
All for a shitty set of stairs

I should start a construction company

>>134257341
i know... the city should just put signs every where that say walk and breathe at your own risk.

>>134257383
>not having monster tires and 4 wheel drive on your scooter
WORST.AMERICAN.EVER

>>134260865
what?

food for thought: who would have known it *wasn't the city that installed the stairs if he hadnt said so? take the hank hill approach, fix the shit and let it be. no one will fuckin know

>>134261061
buy a gun and many fire extinguishers

>>134260879
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A /POL/-LEBRITY?

>>134258490
Which part of Long Island?

>>134261026

You are fucking high.

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>>134256861
>Im not quite sure how to feel about this. If the stairs were built to code would the city still be justified in tearing it down?

Yes, because who is responsible in case someone gets injured on it?

That said, there's no way he spent $550 in materials alone. He spent maybe $200 at worse. 3 4x4 posts and a bunch of 2x4s. For it to be $550 he would have literally had to have bought the tools needed new and paid the homeless guy close to $50/hr and given him a box of KFC.

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>>134258596
$22.69

Most expensive item was the kimchi

>>134260941
HOLY SHIT THIS IS GENIUS, IM SO FUCKING SICK OF WORKING FOR REFUGEES, HOW DO A FAKE A FALL MOST EFFECTIVELY??!?!!? (willing to injure myself for authenticity)

>>134260945
because my parents immigrated here from the former Yugoslavia and had no family in the states :(

>>134260987
dude I walked on them and carried my bike lie an alpha as some babe and her skinny boyfriend waited for me....holy shit she had some nice tits

>>134257180
Daily reminder that if we lived in ANCAP/Libertarian society these problems wouldn't exist.

Daily reminder that the best state in America is the crypto-Libertarian state of New Hampshire which has 0% income tax, 0% sales tax, lax gun laws, no mandatory car insurance, and many other great libertarian policies.

>>134260628
They are putting this shit around for canadas 150th bday

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rethink-150-alt-commemoration-1.4124440

The pic in the article is on a billboard near me

>>134261177

70K a year you give piggyback rides down the hill only they have to clamber back up themselves,

>>134261257
im a pretty big loser otherwise so pretty good man

>>134261027
What's your climate? I tried to grow the stuff too, and it was overridden in cabbage moth larva faster than I could pick them off. Same with broccoli, etc - you simply cannot grow it without pesticides in this region.

>>134260879
screencapped, this is yuuuuuuuuuuuuuge

>>134261341
Archived it for you
https://archive.is/DcDFW

>>134257514
>only $300

Jesus fuck. America is truly the land of the free.
Also I heard there are some counties in the USA that don't have building codes, so you don't need to jump through all those hoops if you want to build a new shed or some shit on your property

>>134261061

I am, you will never be out of work and there is endless small jobs everywhere.

Forget doing a shopping center parking lot, just fix the small stuff, you and a friend. Collect 100% of the profit.

Potholes, driveways, curbs, landscaping.

Under cut the over priced big name companies.

>>134261299

Nice masturbation vaseline filter faggot.

>a couple pieces of lumber and some nails
>$550

I could get that shit done for $55.

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>>134261061
If you're going the moral route, you're going to go bankrupt quickly. If you're going the overpricing route, good luck. Most construction companies are in bed with the local governments, so you'd have to bribe city officials to consider you instead of their favorites. I don't think I need to inform you of why you should bribe city officials, or any form of one for that matter.

>>134261341
>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rethink-150-alt-commemoration-1.4124440
>His goal is to spread that level of awareness to a broader audience and to promote respect for Canada's Indigenous heritage.

>"I question, what are you celebrating? From a First Nation's perspective, the genocide and all the things that happened to us, the loss of our language, our culture… and it really upsets me when people say get over it.

fuck, i didnt know canadians genocided anyone. not bad

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>>134256861
>$65,000 for 8 steps
Fucking hell even $550 is too much if he did it himself.
People need to start getting their asses kicked.

>>134256861
>Not allowing the government to misappropriate funds and line theirs and their friends pockets.
The stairs have to come down.

>>134258384
Should have had one stringer in the middle and two on the edge of the treads. Calling OSHA brb

>>134256861
Government is useless and inferior, they only hold us back while they line their pockets.

>>134257621
>>134257884

And they say the free market doesn't work

>>134261283
>bunch of 2x4s
I'm assuming you don't know how stairs are built.

>>134261323
Dude, if you have a good profession (I'm guessing you're a Croat or Serb) you can get in the states pretty easily

>>134261390
dude they were so shit and small, theyre a lawsuit waiting to happen......man like this might be the greatest day of my life, something I found on /pol/ actually applies to me

the stairs are near a superrrrrr rich, old money area

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>>134257180
gee that's a good question

>>134261587
MR. TRUDEAU. TEAR DOWN THESE STAIRS

>>134261651
You need a PhD minimum to get an H1B worker visa in America.

>>134258596
>Kale
Nice meme. You can buy a ~750g bag of frozen peas for under $2. 1700g of mixed frozen vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots) is $6. These are the every day prices at Wal-Mart.

>>134261651
I have a chartered accountancy and I'm gonna do an MBA...would that be enough to get the fuck out of this hell hole? The park he built it in was littered with shit skins

and ya you guessed right, brown hair and blue eyes master race

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>>134257180
Who knows?

If the canadian government stopped giving jihadi terrorists millions of dollars as penance for punishing them for crimes, you could build like one or two sets of stairs, max!

>>134257180
They probably put aside the money to build the stairs 3 or 4 times too.

>>134261621
My deck and its stairs is made out of them.

Mostly because I didn't want to make another trip at 7PM, but still, that was a good 20 years ago. I've had to do no maintenance on them in that time, sans standard cleaning.

>>134261450
Those are usually the rural ones. AKA, the population consisting of maybe a dozen families and that stray dog that everybody loves.

>>134256861
>No! You goy mother fucker! We were going to build those stairs for $500 and then pocket the rest!

>>134261517

Don't work for the city, do private jobs non government.

Federal and local government jobs may pay a lot but the bullshit you have to go through is ridiculous... it's why even big name companies actually deny city jobs often because there is too much corruption they don't want to get involved with.

A friend of mine would get federal jobs for parking lot work, stripping, asphalt.

They have so much ridiculous shit you have to go through but the pay is like $50+ per hour for those jobs.

>>134261602
This. First American to vacation there that walks on one side is gonna break them.

>>134261611
how is this bad? fuck the public. you guys are shit! people are shit! you're shit, and than you die. but the public die as they lived, like shit. fuck the public! get it while the gettings good, get it before you die and screw everyone else over. it's not like you'll meet them again in the afterlife. FUCK THE PUBLIC AND FUCK WHITE PEOPLE

>exposing government for the lazy overpricing thieves they are

TEAR THOSE STEPS DOWN, CITIZEN

>>134261526
>trips over the guardrail
>tumbles down the stairs
>dies

>>134261788
Probably.

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>nice little steps you have there goyim, shame if someone sued to get rid of it

>>134256861
>If the stairs were built to code would the city still be justified in tearing it down?
They're not. That's how 'Building Code' works. NOTHING is 'to code', because the Code is an impenetrable and self-contradictory mess full of shit that requires constant interpretation by the inspector. It's just an infinitely open-ended excuse for any harassment or seizure the state wants to do.

>>134261788
You need a Ph.D minimum to get a workers visa in America.

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>>134258173
I bet those hands make his junk look huge.

>>134261385
Central IL.
I too have cabbage moth problems, My solution is to grow my broccoli and mustard far from the kale, then just try to keep the kale eaten fast enough so that the eggs/larva never get big enough to eat faster than the plants can grow.

I fucked up one year and didn't keep on top of it, and went from several rows of kale to just stalks in a matter of days. That said, within a couple of weeks it was back again, since like I said, you can't really kill it.

>>134257443
then he shouldn't have done it.
You commies dont understand freedom of choice

>>134257830
What city bud?

>>134256861
of couse the city would not be justified in tearing down somthing done for free and to code.

that is what a boy scout eagle project is.

but you guys are leafs so you would rather give it to heroin junkies, muslims, Chinese, or the liberal agenda.

>>134257168
HAHAHA CANADA YES

>>134261893
My father has done that. I helped him out from time to time. The pay is good but honestly it's pretty much the same as other labor jobs. If you enjoy that type of stuff then I can see why someone would make it a profession, but if you're in the business for "easy" money then you're better off working for the big companies and getting paid to take 8 hours to complete a 10 minute job.

This guy saw a problem, went out of his way to fix it. Fucking alpha male

He's going to have the whole community behind him too when the governemnt retardedly tears it down

>>134258596
>My lack of a face when I ate eggs and bacon with my induction cooker while homeless in Los Angeles

>you're supposed to eat a minimum of 700g of nutritious vegetable matter a day to remain healthy,

Blah blah you're supposed to blah blah. Eggs and bacon like a king. As long as you can find an outlet or carry a battery pack, you can eat good with an induction cooker.

Let guess, you're going to be a faggot complaining about how all this cholesterol and fat is bad because your dyke of a 4th grade health teacher told you so.

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>>134257453
That's not even Victoria's final form.
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/johnson-street-bridge-held-up-as-example-of-government-waste-by-taxpayers-group-1.10257937

>"Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge project has been singled out by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for wasting millions in public money. The project has earned the federation’s 2017 Municipal Teddy Government Waste Award."

I see that fucking bridge every day and it fills me with rage. It's millions of dollars over budget and fucking YEARS behind schedule, because the assholes who run this city thought it would be a fantastic idea to buy some cheap unusable Chinese steel. They even have a lives stream of all of the FUCKING NOTHING happening on the bridge. https://youtu.be/F3qDI1Y1XEg

If someone could post that screencap about that anon who dealt with a cheap Chinese steel company it'd be super appropriate.

I'm very surprised you retards are siding with the fucking government. Muh building code

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>>134259052
Pretty much this. Why give a fuck and actually investigating when it's not their money they're spending.
Patting themselves in the back and pandering to minorities is always more profitable for them that fiscal responsibility.

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.......... He built some stairs, then paid a crack whore 15 bucks for a blowjob. That's what I would have done, anyway.

>>134256861
They're going to tear this shit down and spend three years and be $30000 over budget building the stairs that are up to city code standards.

>>134259052
This. My small business has some government contracts, and while you may have some competitive bidding once in a while, for a lot of work we're just the only company some random bureaucrat knows to call, and we can throw any random number at them and they'll pay it, no questions asked.

>>134262338

> you're better off working for the big companies

All the big companies near me are only hiring at $10 to $12 per hour, slave immigrant labor. They hire millennials are the same wages for concrete, masonry work.

The only people making the big bucks are specially selected gen x or maybe a few millennials who are related to uppers in the company.

That's the new age of big business. The upper's relatives get the $20 to $30 per hour job doing the same work at the non-relatives who are paid $10 to $12 per hour.

This is why self employment is king right now, if the market is plentiful

>>134258596
>rice itself tastes unpalatable
You know what, just fuck you

>>134257535
You motherfucker.
>>134257553
>sues
>>134257637
>sued
Jew lawyers ruin everything. Communities used to work together to provide public spaces with the things they need. Now the barrier for entry for someone to do something nice for their hometown is so high that people don't even bother. Kikes destroyed civil society.

>>134262615
unironically this is the most likely outcome.

>>134256861
Looks like he did a shitty job

>>134256861
That's nice and all but he definitely didn't build that to code. The supports for the treads are in the center for some reason, only one sided railing, no anti-slip, the county probably don't know if it's secured into the ground properly, etc.

It's a liability for the city and they see it as a lawsuit waiting to happen. Granted 65k is over the top they at the very least know it shouldn't kill someone.

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>>134259284
Explain how this is possible

>>134257310
No...this country shits out money for those most favoured...
Have you heard the one about the Irving shipyard 61billion dollar fiasco?
So, Irvings going to 'build' some new frigates...they are already late on delivery...Gov of Can 'bought' the designs from Norway...Irving charges an additional $250 M design fee...
These ships will cost more than 7 times the price that Norway and England payed for theirs...
Thats a 700 % markup for all Canadian...
Some of these people need to be held accountable for this overt theft...
61 billion for a frigate fleet that we could get Norway, England, or Davie Shipyards to do for about 15 billion sounds far better to me...

They were planning on pocketing thousands and are now making excuses why they can't use his stairs so they can still pull off their scam

>>134262489
>some drunk bloke slips off stairs after rain
>injured spine, paralyzed
>toronto man's voluntary $550 stairs became $10000000 lawsuit

>>134261474
Yeah, something is wrong with my camera, everything is blurry as fuck even when I focus it. Maybe I've just scratched the fuck out of the lens cover

>>134262585
>fiscal responsibility

The perversity:

People in office own nothing ("the people own everything") therefore they treat everything with the same respect they give to things they don't own.

You give people exploitable systems and expect great virtue when great temptation and great rewards are screaming to be taken advantage of.

I'm not even kidding, they will probably rip it all down and rebuild it just due to liability and union issues.

They have a stranglehold on this stuff.

>>134256861

They look like shit.

>>134261329
>0% income tax, 0% sales tax
Property taxes must be incredibly high. Not sure which is worse, though.

>>134256861

And when somebody busts their ass on them, who's getting the blame?

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>>134257383
This>>134261120
Need to step up your game, son.

>>134262796
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMvr66cu-sA

>>134257453
They built a fag crosswalk in Atlanta too. Someone made big skidmarks on them, which is appropriate for something glorifying sodomy.

I'm waiting for someone to demand a Confederate themed crosswalk in the name of equality.

>>134261283
You are going to need more boards than that

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>>134258490
>mfw Nassau county lets all these fucking potholes build up and don't do anything about it for months

>>134262780
but so much better then you ever could have hoped to

>>134259651
Fuck Canada tbqh is it possible to hate your country without being a communist?
I swear to God I'm going into politics to change what I can in this fucked up country

>>134262986
On /pol/? Not the Jews; I can tell you that much.

I'm spotting a lot of salty government contractors, aka welfare queens, in the comments here.

> N-no, how am I gonna waste the taxpayers money now?!?!

>>134261450
It varies by county. States all have building codes for residential homes. Whether you need an inspection for decks, electrical plumbing, etc varies by county.

If I weren't selling my house, I wouldn't have bothered getting a permit. Home inspectors during real estate transactions are very thorough around here, and I don't want to have to tear the whole thing down.

>>134257180
I'm trying mate. I've sent letters to all the senators in my country but the problem with Australia is that the entire left wing of politics is literally the Union Party Inc Pty Ltd so by exposing Unions & construction companies you expose the entire left wing.

We have crazy shit like unskilled labourers getting paid $160,000p.a to work on infrastructure projects where they get massive benefits including paid days off to attend Union meetings & industrial relations training at companies expense. They're destroying all of the companies that are trying to build the country.

Then you have our retirement savings rort where Unions control about $600billion+ and funnel it to Unions & Labor political campaigns using our own retirement savings.

If he was black, they would be celebrating him.

>man cost city millions in law suits after building death trap on city property

>>134257453

That's a MUST in every Podunk city now. If there's no gay crosswalk it's a hate crime.

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>>134263011
Are these available to the public?

All the kvetchers in here... really.
The fact that the stairs this guy built were shitty is irrelevant. The issue at hand is that people had already gotten hurt (though none seriously) trying to go down the slope, and the city was dragging it's heels about doing anything and quoting a $65,000+ price tag for a solution.
The guy built the stairs for 500, probably could have done it for cheaper, and probably could have done a better job sure... but for substantially less than $65,000 you can easily get a prefabricated stairway that does meet codes and do a bit of landscaping to fit it into the berm. All this they could have done faster than some old guy can build a shitty wooden staircase.
So what the fuck do we even pay so much taxes for?

>>134256861
How retarded can people get?

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>>134259761
>How so? The homeless people I see look sick.
Their drug addicts retard. If they spent their govbux and panhandling money on food they would be fine. You're such a faggot

>>134263232
>death trap

It would be trivial to reinforce it with a few carriage bolts. From the picture, it doesn't look like there's anything complicated structurally.

>>134262718
You're probably looking in the wrong professions. Roofers get $14/h base. Electricians $15-16/hh base, and if you 're a master electrician you go over $30/h easily. If you work your way up then you be a supervisor, so your dumb millennial lackies do all the hard labor shit while you only do simple connections or anything requiring two brain cells that kids nowadays don't want to bother activating. Finally, if you know some people or kiss enough ass you can speed up this process and be in high positions in only a few months.

>t. anon with relatives who do this stuff

This is all in Texas, though, so if you state doesn't have that much going on in construction then you're shit out of luck. I'd join in on the "fun" myself, but I'm not a fan of labor jobs. My scrawny ass is comfortable here behind computers all day.

>>134256861

What if someone fell down them? What if it were Omar Khadr? Do you know how expensive that would be?!?!

>>134261849
He sure as hell didn't use 2x4s for stringers.

>>134263278
You're damn tootin' they are!
http://www.terrainhopper.com/

>>134263106
Sadly it didn't even go THAT far over budget projections. The original quote was 200 million. The city already has a perfectly functional museum that's in desperate need of an update. For 10 million they probably could have added a wing to the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature for all the oy vey stuff instead of it needing a whole other fucking building to compete with it.

>>134259804
>defending the potential $65k scam
I wonder (((whomst'd've))) is behind this post

>>134263507
>The Overlander 4Z: with the added advantage of 2 separate electrical systems, one for the front motors and another for the rear giving increased power for tall users and users over 16 stone/102 kg and below 26 stone/159 kg.

How many stones is 405 lbs? Will this work for me?

>>134258596
>Youre supposed to eat x. The poor cant afford x.

Grats you be been indoctrinated

>>134259204

Use the NAZI flag - it's respected by all in the /pol/ ecosystem

>>134258656

Toronto's mayor made the same point you did, but I think he was just covering his butt

>>134256861
b-b-ut muh roads?!

>>134262387
I remember that. Half the time the steel wouldn't even show up and the other half they'd need to pay a bribe. That or the steel company was a scam and would close after taking the money

>>134263507
I'm assuming they're a British company. All the prices are listed in £.

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>>134256861
do it and waste more leaf buks

>>134257621
>Get an engineer
You fucking what? To build stairs?

>>134259029

In Toronto all the construction companies are mafia firms, mainly using illegal Portuguese workers

>>134262011
>>134262011
Take a good look at those fucking stairs and tell me there's anything wrong with them. Tell me how much better it would be if the government funded it. Stupid boot-licking retard big government apologist who thinks the government has his best interests in mind

>>134257621
they probably have to build a set of stairs AND a ramp for wheelchair people. They also probably need to hire a guy to go over and make sure that the stairs wouldn't endanger any animal habitats or particular plants/trees

>>134260956
more like

>10k for installation (union so only one worker can touch one step in the install)
>30k to give natives cause it's "their land"
>20k for a site survey and urban planners who have to be flown in from Norway for latest design expertise.
>5k goes missing.

>>134259352

It looks even worse in pics taken at a different angle

>>134257840
The "regulation" is probably halal or kike certification. That or reinforced concrete so hamplanets can use it (not that they would walk anywhere)

>>134259803
Single entry bookkeeping means that you only make a single record of each transaction, which means that no transaction can be verified to be accurate. Instead, businesses should use double-entry bookkeeping, which keeps two records for every transaction (one out, one in), one of which is automatically generated and therefore less prone to fraud since it can be used to verify the other half of the transaction.

>>134260911
because of snowplowing and shit, and theyre not embedded into the earth or anything.

>>134263640
They clearly didn't have us in mind. You'd think they're would be an English to Freedom conversion chart for this shit.

>>134263129

Liability, hoss.
When some crone waddles down, slips and loses half a dozen vertebrae because of no guarantee faulty stairs built by some dude, who is she going to sue? The government? They didn't build them. Some old dude? It's not his property.

>>134263451

Roofers get $14/h base

If you do your own jobs you get like $45+ per hour when it all adds up.

That $14/h base is for the spics or young white millennials.

;)

>>134256861
Just more reason to hate big government and government workers.

They inflate these costs to benefit their friends who run these construction companies who no doubt give them money when they campaign.

Government projects always end up costing 4 times what the should. You think politicians give a shit about other peoples money they are spending?

>>134256861

If you're anywhere near those stairs, I suggest doing a backflip off the top of them and get yourself ready to move in to Mr. Astl's house.

>>134260788
>keeper of the light
They don't give jobs to support cucks

>>134260582
heh. We use something similar at work. I think they're modular too, might even have a handicapped accessible ramp as well.

>>134257628
coming from the country where EVERYONE lives in a council house. enjoy your 250 sq ft house sandwiched between some culturally enriched neighbors.

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>>134261323

You shout get your fucking ass the fuck out.

You don't deserve stairs. You deserve to walk though a muddy rut you ungrateful fucking piece of shit.

back to albania fuckhead.

I would punch you hard in the face if I could right now you little bitch. No wonder our country is shit we started letting mongrels like you in.

That's when it all started to fall apart.

Go... JUST GO take your fithy parents with you.

>>134256861
>Im not quite sure how to feel about this
How could you possibly not intuitively understand that government goons are self-serving and hate when their excuses for doling out business favors are taken from them?

>>134260728
>taxes and theft

Why use synonyms like that?

Honestly, as an owner of a small construction company, I would have just hired a spic or a white millennial off craigs list and paid them minimum wage.

I always find a white millenial or spic to assist in my jobs. For example, for a simple $10,000 driveway concrete job I usually spend about $2,500 in materials, pay out $300 total to my craiglist workers and pocket the rest for myself.

I look at young white millennials no different than spics or nigger workers. Cheap and disposable.

>>134263070
You can cut the 2x4s. The steps look to be about 4 feet long. I literally just threw numbers in there; point stands no way it was $550.

>>134264191
I was making a funny about how /pol/ always blames the Jews.

>>134261526

That is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

>>134259305
Pure autism

>>134259171
>Working poor eat worse than homeless people
Are they too lazy to go to the food bank?

>>134256861
Any able bodied person should be able to use those stairs with no problem. Fatties and cripples should stay home and rot.

>>134261526
>police tape
fucking kek

>>134264271
Don't forget the Unions.
I'm amazed by the naivety of people that thing government measures are reasonable and anything other than a gravy train for people in the know at the publics expense behind closed doors. Even exposing it people still cant seem to process how obvious and easy the corruption is.

>>134261283
BOLTS AND OTHER FASTENERS

>>134256861
The mayor or city council probably wanted a friend to do it, so the friend could kick back 10-20k to the politician. They're all crooked. Like the city i live in the roads are shit because of snow, ice and rock salt. They have cement that will last like 30 years, but the Unions contract won't allow them to use it. Instead they repave the same 10 streets in 5 year rotations.

>>134264677
worry about your Muslims and chinks first