Do you know that you're looking at something illegal? The fliers in the picture, that is. Pretty much every flier on a pole, or fence, or whatever, is against City of Fresno codes. But really, who has time to enforce such little things? Right? There can't be money in the city's budget right now for somebody to check on fliers local bands post on telephone poles, can there?
Apparently there is, as Fresno's Down Word found out. They got a notice in the mail from the city of Fresno stating they had 48 hours to take down all their fliers or they would be fined several hundred dollars. Stupid considering all the other codes the city should be enforcing but don't really seem to do. We can think of a lot of blight in our neighborhood that are code violations yet these things never go away - and yes, we've reported them.
Add to that: political signs are legal within three months of an election. So a band trying to promote a show a couple weeks away is doing something illegal but a politician doing the same thing is perfectly fine.
Hey City of Fresno, political signs: WAY more annoying than band fliers.
