Violators Should be Prosecuted

Just beyond the retention pond at the end of our block is a walkway that dead-ends in a corner of a forest. The forest is not large, certainly not a forest preserve or anything, just a small stand of trees with some wildlife that in other times of the economy might have become another strip mall.

A recent walk there yielded one photograph and one poem that need no further introduction:

VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED

No Dumping Violators Will Be Prosecuted reads the discarded sign
Bent corner, still bolted to its green steel post but uprooted
And dumped in a corner of the forest with a score or more of
Beer bottles, broken sticks, cups and fast food boxes;
Highly unlikely that anyone will ever be prosecuted.