The best thing about somebody doing a good deed anonymously is that everybody gets to guess who did it.
After a series of strange twists and turns, the pile of trash is finally gone from the corner of State Street and Park Avenue in Brockport, NY.
The trash pile appeared a week ago and stayed on the street all weekend.
It’s a classic example of the adage - no matter how hard you try; and even when you do everything right, things can still go wrong
But even so, after all is said and done, the good news outnumbers the bad news two to one.
First of all, you have to give kudos to Scott Zarnsdorf, Brockport’s code enforcement officer.
The word on the street is that Zarnsdorf actually issued an appearance ticket to the property owner responsible for the pile of trash on the street about 150 feet from the Brockport Municipal Building and about a block from the home of the new mayor.
It took some pressure from a member of the Village Board to get action, but Zarnsdorf did issue a ticket for a violation of the Village Code.
That’s the first piece of good news.
The bad news is that on Friday morning, three days after trash pick-up on Tuesday, some of that pile of trash was still sitting by the curb near the corner of State Street and Park Avenue in Brockport.
The dead sofa disappeared on Tuesday. But, the dead television was still there, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and even on Friday morning.
The dead television did change position though. Before trash pick-up on Tuesday, it was sitting upright so you could look at the TV screen. After trash pick-up it was lying face down, as if the garbage handlers banged into it and knocked it over as they were moving the sofa.
Putting a dead television out with your garbage is an iffy proposition.
According to the Suburban Disposal website, TVs are a drop off, like computers and cell phones, that people should drop off at the Certified Document Destruction & Recycling Center. At 1133 Emerson Street, in Rochester. The center is open from 6:30am to 2:30pm, Monday through Friday.
This is Brockport Art Festival Weekend, and thousands of people will be coming to the village for the festivities. As of Friday morning it looked like they were all going to see the dead television, because the detour around Main Street takes traffic down Park Avenue past the pile of trash.
But then some anonymous person removed the dead television. It’s gone; vanished into thin air.
The speculation about who removed it started almost immediately.
Some people thought that Mayor Margay Blackman put the dead TV in the trunk of her car and dropped it off at the DPW for disposal. Still others thought that maybe Scott Z, or one of the Village Trustees, scooped it up.
One woman said that maybe someone took it up to Volunteers of America.
There is even speculation that aliens stopped in Brockport just long enough to vaporize the dead TV, before taking their UFO elsewhere.
Other people speculated that maybe the property owner finally realized the dead TV was still there and took it back into the garage.
The important thing is that the trash pile is finally gone, and the tourists coming to the Village this weekend won’t have to look at it.
Thank you anonymous, whoever you are.
