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3 thoughts on “Giant sucking sound

    • Lulz

      LOL this is how idiotic they are. They got rid of it only to hire a company to clean up downtown areas that USE one of their own. I saw them cleaning up the leaves at Pritchard Park with it.

  1. Robin

    Yep, and once the leaf vacuums were gone, Asheville leaders (specifically Cathy Ball) turned around and actually started billing Asheville residents for a reduction in Sanitation services.

    PT Barnum said that there is a sucker born every day, but in Asheville there’s a majority of them created for every municipal election.

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