Anti-Postering Update
Ann Arbor’s white knight of the anti-postering movement strikes again, this time with a letter in today’s News. “It is interesting that handbills are included in the city code under the heading of ‘littering,’” he writes. Something to ponder indeed.
At least he kept it clean this go round.
posted by Dale on June 26th, 2006 at 1:21 pmWhile it’s still legal, I say we post a few fliers around this guy’s neighborhood in Ann Arbor
“Baird, Robert L
posted by Brandon on June 26th, 2006 at 1:54 pm57 Salem Cir
Saline, MI 48176-9135
(734) 665-1552″
don’t they edit letters to the editor? My head hurts from the rambling.
posted by Heidi on June 26th, 2006 at 2:00 pmWait, he lives in Saline?
posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 26th, 2006 at 2:02 pmAccording to the phone company/SuperPages.com he does, anyway. Unless there are two folks of the same name in these parts…
posted by Brandon on June 26th, 2006 at 2:11 pmAh, it may have been too perfect to be true. Other sources indicate an Ann Arbor address.
posted by Brandon on June 26th, 2006 at 2:20 pmAlthough, that’s actually in Ann Arbor Township, so the same issue still stands. Reminds me of the “greenway” activist from South Lyon.
posted by Brandon on June 26th, 2006 at 2:22 pmGoogling “robert baird” “ann arbor” gets you
Robert L Baird, (734) 665-6408, 3990 Thornwood Ct, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
posted by Chris on June 26th, 2006 at 2:22 pmOr maybe that’s actually Superior Township, on 3rd thought.
I give up.
posted by Brandon on June 26th, 2006 at 2:28 pmsome stalker you turn out to be Brandon.
posted by OFWinsurgent on June 26th, 2006 at 3:04 pmWhy all the speculation about where the guy lives, when it was plain from the first letter in that day’s batch?
Sunny Day
Tearin’ hand-bills away
On my way to where the grouches meet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street
Slicing away at a
hand-bill is A-OK
Crotchety old men there
That’s where we meet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street
It’s a thing of civic pride
Guys like Rob will stem the tide
of happy people like you–
Happy people like
What a beautiful
Sunny Day
Rippin’ hand-bills away
On my way to where the old grumps meet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street
How to get to Sesame Street
posted by HD on June 26th, 2006 at 3:25 pmThis guy sucks. And that’s all I have to say about that.
posted by Dave on June 26th, 2006 at 4:19 pmWhat a swell guy.
And that’s all I have to (tongue-in-cheek) say about that.
Wait, one more - when he says “a majority of citizens” are “probably” against flyering, I don’t think that’s really fair. How about just polling those of us who live in the downtown area and can, say, see flyers from the window of our bedroom.
Or maybe they can give us two votes.
posted by Anonymous on June 26th, 2006 at 4:43 pmSo that’s whos been slicing up all my SDS flyers…. *grumble* *grumble*
posted by Anonymous on June 27th, 2006 at 2:32 amIf you wheat paste your flyers up, they stay up longer, it doesn’t require any tape, and the “white knight” has to work a little harder at being a jackass vigilante.
I suggest a sting operation. Drop an anonymous tip to his address that there’s going to be a massive handbill posting operation downtown on Saturday, then just travel around in circles taping up flyers until he catches up to you or vice versa. Snap a photo of him waving a utility knife in your face(! have to be brave for this op…), and then charge him with brandishing a weapon. After all, _civilized_ people don’t go around waving utility knives at each other, at least not in this Beautiful City of Ours. (That kind of thing only happens in Ypsi…)
posted by Murph on June 27th, 2006 at 8:06 pmI’m sending him a postcard. Although I do like Murph’s idea, anyone this psychotic about some flyers in an area he doesn’t even live in could do a little bit more than just wave a knife. I mean, he may be “frightened for his well being” when “confronted” by a bunch of “young’uns” and the knife may “slip”.
If anyone’s down, though, I think a night at Leopold’s with a stack of postcards, roll of stamps, and colorful markers would be wonderfully entertaining.
posted by Jen on June 28th, 2006 at 5:20 amI guess this means that we’ll be back on this guy’s shit list again. Sigh.
Of all the things in this world to spend one’s time crusading against: Concert flyers???
So very weird.
posted by todd on June 28th, 2006 at 9:08 amTodd -
When were you ever on his shit list in the first place? The last time I remember seeing flyers for Leopold’s was around New Year’s…
… although if a postcard-session does go down, it can be relocated. I was just thinking of the nice lighting/big tables/jukebox at Leopold’s.
posted by Jen on June 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am“When were you ever on his shit list in the first place? The last time I remember seeing flyers for Leopold’s was around New Year’s…”
Hey, don’t think for a second that this guy doesn’t have a long, long memory when it comes these flyers…….the New Year’s flyers were probably this guy’s “last straw”. I picture ‘Office Space’s’ Milton, explaing how the “squirrels were married”, and “ok, but that’s the last straw”, when he is moved to the basement by Lumberg.
….but if it wasn’t obvious, I was kidding. I’ll even help lick the stamps if I can find the time….
BTW, we have a website that is FINALLY updated, and includes a complete list of what is currently in the jukebox….it’s a subheading under ‘pub’. Quite a few new releases.
posted by todd on June 28th, 2006 at 11:52 amMake sure you have the right guy before you send him anything.
It turns out that the world is crawling with Bairds:
http://www.bairdnet.com
A surprising number are named Robert L. Baird.
anywho.com lists a fax number for some Robert L. Baird in Ann Arbor.
posted by kjc on June 28th, 2006 at 12:14 pmFor the record, I don’t think we should be sending anything to the guy, but that’s just me.
Let ‘em tilt at the windmills all he wants……
posted by todd on June 28th, 2006 at 12:17 pmUh yeah, I just came across this and I’m not sure how I feel about people posting home addresses here.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 28th, 2006 at 12:21 pmUh, it’s apparently in whatever phone directory Google is using…
I prefer the idea of posting fliers all over his neighborhood to keep him busy out there, anyway.
posted by Brandon on June 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pmPostering there so we don’t have to re-poster here, you mean?
posted by Dale on June 28th, 2006 at 1:37 pmI’d love to get a photo of him and then put it on a flyer…
posted by Michael McC. on June 28th, 2006 at 1:50 pmHe’d probably have a coronary if I went out behind him and replaced all the portraits he’s removed. He’s a grinch.
I guess the only good thing I could say is at least he isn’t going onto people’s porches and hauling their couches away.
posted by Dave on June 28th, 2006 at 5:39 pmThinking of leaflets past:
Slapped up many hundreds of flyers a long time ago, only to have a number of them taken down thru the ongoing, assiduous efforts of The Original “Dr. Diag,” — the one who would stand up on his favourite concrete bench to lecture almost daily on current affairs and on other related matters, such as why he proudly voted for Goldwater back in the day….
Thinking of leaflets future:
In the spirit of the Jetsons & the Simpsons, am pondering the possibility that an unexpected long-term/down-the-road benefit of Washtenaw Wireless might be the ability to digitally project leaflet information onto street poles. No need for standard paper sizes, no wheat paste — just use (let’s say) tiny unwired devices smaller than an iSight. Then social anthropologists could study the developing ethics of the “leafleters” who share the conical canvas, and how much they refrain from projecting over the projections of others. And the next-generation Bob Baird could walk around with a large mirror, claiming that his efforts to reflect these projections will reduce the growing, unseemly photon pollution on downtown streets.
Now…. where did I put that glass of absinthe?
posted by hale on June 28th, 2006 at 11:54 pmYears ago, I was able to defeat the Baird.
Two words: E Poxy.
He tried to cut it down, but the shellacked announcement stayed up and legible for months until *I* took it down with a specialized solvent.
He was PISSED.
posted by leighton on July 2nd, 2006 at 9:20 am