A Canadian Man named John McCue became so frustrated with the pot holes in Nova Scotia he began filling them himself with a sign that read “I filled the pot holes, pay me instead of your taxes."
@@michaelsk1339 Ik, but I can imagine with how successful america is, that their government has some fucked up shit to hide. Histories good guys are always those who've won the previous war. And america will do anything in its power to still seem like the good guys. I don't want to know what kinds of fucked up shit is happening behind closed doors.
@@asterismos5451 Weed was never as big of a deal in Canada as it is in many other countries. It was already kind of seen as legal for a long time before it was officially legalized. If you weren't distributing, cops really didn't care. They'd take what you had on you, since it was technically illegal, but they didn't give out tickets all that often.
@@ameliaduncan3236yeah they just take away your joints scare you a bit. Tell you they are telling your parents. You freak out for no reason and nothing happens
That happens in the US, too. "Filling in the potholes" is the most Canadian thing. In the US, people usually do things with the goal of getting money from the drivers. Canada is where almost everyone does the right thing, even if no one is watching.
“If the government isn’t gonna do it, then who is”. That man is a legend to his community. Sounds like he’s doing more public work than the gov themselves.
@@stxrenegadeyeah it's legal here. So all that he would be charged for is "altering roadways"... as much as filling a pothole with gravel is such a thing.
As someone who's brother repairs roadways for a living, This dude was not a hero. If his methods are anything to go by, it is like instead of replacing a broken glass window, you put clear tape over it. Ineffective on all fronts and a waste of effort as his "fixes" won't last.
@@DeepHibiscus I'd much rather drive over gravel than a big fuck off hole in the road. You can complain as soon as the tax payer's money goes towards the fucking roads. A temporary fix is much preferable than a fat bureaucrat saying he'll fix it next week for 5 years.
@@DeepHibiscus in short, tell your brother to fix the fucking holes or else he'll have to deal with amateur DIY jobs. I'd much prefer gravel over a broken car.
Shouldn't have to do it himself. In so-called "civilized" countries that's what local government is for. Except they are too busy stealing money/misappropriating money for themselves.
I live in California and pay friends/housemates in weed to do the chores I can’t physically do 😂 One of the local dispensaries gives customers free bud for spending over a certain amount and I got in the habit of exchanging that for small favors and it snowballed
The government was doing plenty of work trying to intimidate him out of doing a service for the community. Can’t make the government look bad by fixing issues they refuse to, after all.
Citizens: Hey government, maybe do that thing we pay you to do… Government: Nah Citizens: Okay, well we’ll just do it ourselves! Government: Wait that’s illegal!
@Crab in A Top Hat "but all of those literally only exist because the government wants to regulate who is doing what." ahhh, and you were doing so well, only to wip out that nonsense. While some regulatory rules do exist due to corrupt logic, or special interests, the vast majority exits for one simple reason. People died. Regulations are written in blood. This holds true in pretty much every industry. Food standards exist because people died. Work safety standards exist because people died. Randos literally throwing pete gravel at a hole in a highways is frowned on, because people can easily die.
@@TheKingmetroid It's "govern"ment. It's in the name, man. We're basically paying to manage us. Tbf, we're also paying them to keep the crazy ones in check. Anarchy isn't as fun as in the novels.
Lots of cities in america have a pothole reporting map. If you see a pothole you can report it and it will be fixed fairly quickly. (Doesn't work on parking lots as those are often owned by businesses)
The government gets paid to do nothing and keep roads fucked up so people have to repair their vehicles to keep the economy going. If we all were free of poor health and needless expenses they would start some shit and send in the millitary to destroy the peace we built
@@cj16423 by engaging people more often in community development than letting another corrupted government waste billions on unprofitable and nonsensical projects right?
There's also a guy in India who fills up potholes but his story is that his son died in accident due to pothole that he couldn't see during driving and his father enraged by this and wanting no other parent to go through this kind of experience, started filling holes on road. Absolute respect for these people, doing work that the government should be doing.
I wish our government was as honest as this man about our taxes "what are you going to spend money on?" "ngl prolly gonna bail out the banks and send it abroad"
You know it would make congress very very sad if they didn’t have a forever war to launder money with, I guess at least this time they aren’t sending Americans out to die…but they want to, man, it’s almost like the government is corrupt or something 😂
U forgot to mention how much money goes towards bombing middle eastern civilians and funding police departments that can’t be bothered to investigate crime
well the reason he got stopped was because of the road laws and culture in north america you cant get anywhere without a car and for your safety your not sllowed to just be in traffic with the cars so he was impeeding traffic and it was dangerous for him to do cops are just doing there job they dont care how much sense hes making
Yeah yeah it _is_ pretty dangerous for him to be in the road and altering it in a way that might not be up to code. Maybe, maybe, uh, the government should do their job so he doesn't have to? Imagine!
@@coolrex69unless he's properly binding the gravel together he's only creating a very temporary solution to the holes while also making the road even less safe for the future. Gravel, aka. Small and pointy rocks get carried by car tires and flung behind them. Aka. By filling potholes on streets 'higher' speedlimits you're basically just creating high velocity projectiles creating more property damage and possible injury/death of drivers.
Yeah, i remember some streamer and his friend rejecting a big donation a few times, then they asked the dude to stop and if he sends it one more time they'll just buy a lot of beer. They guy wrote idc and sent the donation XD
Most honest man on the internet Edit: Holy shit! Both to the likes and the amount of people who's heads this went over in the replies. Also the first 5 or 6 replies?
That right there is a true Canadian my favorite words of all time "with a pocket full of ten, one, two, and five gram hash coins you can buy whatever the fuck you need. So I don't need money, anymore, money can suck my cock." Rip John dunsworth
It's actually very illegal to "repair" potholes on government roads. I remember this guy as a local nova scotianer. Also all of his shitty "fixed" holes took thousands of our tax payer dollars to remove and actually fix. If you think you wanna be this guy, please don't, you only make it easier for the first 50 or so drivers over the gravel then its just as bad if not worse then before.
@@AzaiaMonota a win if you don't live here haha! Sorry it took me a bit to serious this, but onto my original point. Funding for road repairs here comes mostly from tax payers (like me!) And boy I wish we didn't have an extra reason to be charged more for taxes.
He wasn't though, they didn't arrest him but just told the man since if everyone would do this shit could get dangerous fast. Ofc they weren't gonna arrest the guy.
@@Jelly-lc2db We live in the same town he was filling potholes near Stellarton no real source cause I didn’t take pictures with him but my dad did buy him a donut from Tim’s
@@weebandgaminginc.7593 yes, especially George Washington. George Washington lied about most things, including the way he looked hence why we have new quarters now in America that show what he actually looked like
There's a guy in the UK who spray paints penises around potholes, that way the council is forced to fill the potholes to cover up obscene graffiti. He's my hero.
Firstly Nova Scotia pride. Secondly i doubt it was gravel when the roads crack here the roadkill maintenance workers alike the roadkill they toss the tar chunks on the side of the road… so essentially the government got mad that he was putting the tar back into its spot on the road
They shouldn't do that, they're incompetent and corrupt to give them more power. They also shouldn't prohibit this guy from fixing roads. More honest community service would be more efficient than waiting for government intervention which never guarantees you a good thing.
Can't have some random citizen making them look bad! It's like the dude who tries too hard at a minimum wage job getting shade from all the coworkers who just want to go through the motions. Same energy.
problem is that for the average person potholes are a way more common occurance than they actually are. Or at least they make it seem way more common than it is. Think about how many miles of street you go over without a single pothole, but once you hit one that it the thing you focus on.
If the government was filling potholes with gravel, they'd just get accused of stealing taxpayer money, cuz that's not how you fill a highway pothole, it won't last more than a week
@@GoobNoob what Canada are you living in? We're known as a stoner nation . Places like Quebec and BC are famous for their weed strains, jean-guy, (Vancouver) island skunk and QC gold to name a few
@@bruhSaintJohn if "fixing" means that you probably further damage the road with this fix then yeah, i understand why a state wouldn't allow this. That's all I'm saying here.
Cannabis is legal in Canada, and 25% of the population that consumes it is over 30 years old, many of them boomers. Assuming someone is a "drug head" (ancient fucking term btw, love that you're showing your age with that) because they smoke cannabis is incredibly misinformed and ignorant. Cannabis is considered the 3rd most socially acceptable recreational substance in Canada, right behind alcohol and cigarettes.
As a Canadian, even the most peaceful communities in my city have stabbings every few weeks EDIT: the city is called winnipeg maybe I'm wrong so you can research it yourself if you want to
My younger brother doesn't even pretend XD You tell him to do the dishes and he drags his feet hoping dad will do it. He's gonna be in trouble when I move out XD
I swear to God, first thought. Julian would have started up the pothole business to get his life back on track, and Ricky somehow managed to find a way to turn it into a dope enterprise
Then the government steps in "We're the reason somebody doesn't do something." It's like that time years ago in Florida when they arrested an 80 year old man for the crime of feeding the homeless out of his own pocket.
Take a moment and think, how many miles of road without a single pothole have you driven on. Everyone complaining about potholes is basically looking at the Burj Khalifa and complaining about a single window being broken.
