Germans sell potholes

Just heard this on You and Yours on Radio 4. German town selling off it's potholes for around £45. The money gets the pothole repaired, and in return the purchaser gets to have a plaque installed in the road where the hole was (with whatever they want written on it, I think)

Seems like a great fun way of getting the work funded. And it'll make the streets more interesting! I like.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,681691,00.html

If we start doing that here we'll halve the deficit in no time

dear daily mail ,

we don't need any more we've already got enough of our own
and to add to my concerns where would we put them all ? some warehouse in essex ? not on your nelly

outraged from east london

what would a european pothole mountain look like?

My fucking tax already pays for the pothole repairs. Get fixing, you lazy fucks.

Just heard this on You and Yours on Radio 4. German town selling off it's potholes for around £45. The money gets the pothole repaired, and in return the purchaser gets to have a plaque installed in the road where the hole was (with whatever they want written on it, I think)

Seems like a great fun way of getting the work funded. And it'll make the streets more interesting! I like.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,681691,00.html

Potholes tend to appear in the same location a year later... who would want their plaque next to that?

That said, if we can write anything we want on the plaque, then let's go dig holes where riders have fallen and use the plaques to establish permanent memorials at those locations.

How many holes does it take to fill the Albert Hall?

What sort of plaque do you get after they've spent the best part of your 45 quid fixing the hole?

I bet it's a really shit one.

Seventeenth from the right, thirteenth from the left, third right under the black poster, fifth from right (middle ground), eighteenth from left looking down, forty-fifth from left, second right under middle door in building on left, oooh fuggit.

My fucking tax already pays for the pothole repairs. Get fixing, you lazy fucks.

Your a contractor you pay fuck all tax if you mean beer tax then you are paying half the NHS bill ;p

Potholes tend to appear in the same location a year later... who would want their plaque next to that?

That said, if we can write anything we want on the plaque, then let's go dig holes where riders have fallen and use the plaques to establish permanent memorials at those locations.

You'll probably find that there's plenty of potholes at the exact location of cycling fatalities already.
Fucking deadly, they are.

Your a contractor you pay fuck all tax if you mean beer tax then you are paying half the NHS bill ;p

I was PAYE for 5 years. I pay my tax. I may reduce it using legal means every chance I can but who wouldn't?

good idea, they should do this in berlin as well.
just read in the papers this morning that fixing all the potholes and stuff in berlin would cost around 100 million euros.