New onions, new ticket, new copper

By Hawes Spencer | editor@readthehook.com
Published online 3:05pm Sunday Mar 27th, 2011

Onions sprout amid a traffic ticket and a partially-installed copper roof for the office building known as "Old Ivy Commons," located at 2496 Old Ivy Road but seen from Ivy Road.

14 comments

Caesonia March 27th, 2011 | 5:06pm

LOL. Gotta love it when you see an old Volvo 245 pulled over. For what, speeding?

NancyDrew March 27th, 2011 | 6:07pm

At least this looks like the real thing - officer in police car, dressed for the job. Not so in Louisa where an impersonator has been tailing women in a car decked with blue flashing lights.

http://www.thecentralvirginian.com/news/view_sections.asp?idcategory=47&...

Patience March 27th, 2011 | 7:20pm

It's probably a tail light that's out. Our old volvo couldn't go three days without burning out one of the tail lights.

BB March 28th, 2011 | 7:44am

Is there a purpose in this article I don't get it?

Rambo March 28th, 2011 | 9:44am

Hardcore journalism for sure! This isn't news.

idontknowanythi... March 28th, 2011 | 11:37am

What slow news day!? Come on you can do better that this High School journalism class stuff can you?

Environmentalist March 28th, 2011 | 12:19pm

Here's a story - copper roof ?
Where is the Nature Conservancy when we need them ? Shouldn't they be promoting green roofing material for the health of our local streams and rivers ?

"Although it is difficult to predict the fate of copper in roof runoff, it is clear that copper in the runoff is in concentrations known to be toxic to aquatic life. Currently, there are no practical or effective ways to prevent copper from washing off of copper roofs or to remove copper from roof runoff. Therefore, in August 2002, the City of Palo Alto adopted an ordinance prohibiting the use of copper-containing roofing materials, shingles, and gutters in new buildings, and to prohibit their use for replacement of roofs except in historic buildings. "

New Palo Alto Ordinance Prohibits Copper Roofing Materials

www.cityofpaloalto.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID... -

idontknowanythi... March 28th, 2011 | 1:26pm

Environmentalist Man its a good thing that we dont live in Paloalto We'd be SOL if we did . Did they also outlaw pennies?

NancyDrew March 30th, 2011 | 8:41am

Sometimes an image is just an image, not a story, but often that makes us uncomfortable and we seek a narrative to give life meaning.

The Cruncher May 1st, 2011 | 10:36am

I wish I could get the good stuff like NancyDrew so everything I say could sound just as brain damaged.

NancyDrew May 1st, 2011 | 1:23pm

@cruncher- wishing you well.

A Time of Gifts
By Stephen Jay Gould
Published: September 26, 2001

Good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/opinion/a-time-of-gifts.html

The Cruncher May 1st, 2011 | 4:20pm

QED

By the way, evil people prosper when good citizens bury their heads in the sand or act like lobotomy patients like you and deny their existences because you're too oblivious to recognize them. I am unsurprised that you reference an emotional piece of fluff written in a highly emotional time as some sort of guideline, your intellectual prowess wouldn't wet the tip of a dipstick much less inspire actual thought.

cookieJar May 2nd, 2011 | 12:21pm

Sean is back with a pseudonym it seems.

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