Still Trashy, after all this year

If you look closely at my post from October 1st, 2008 you can see where somebody dumped a tv on top of some cement on AM/Pm's property. The reason that people dump things like cement and TV's is that it costs money to take them to the dump. Cement weighs a lot so it is particularly expensive to throw away.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because it has been over a year now that the cement has been sitting behind the AM/PM and nobody from the store has yet bothered to pick it up. What a terrible member of the community this store is. It is hard to imagine that a national chain would continue to allow a store to operate like this.

Parking Strip Maintenance

I just found the Seattle municipal code pertaining to parking strip maintenance, I'm posting it here because AM/PM is CONSTANTLY in violation of this law by simply not picking up the trash that accumulates around their store.

The Seattle Municipal Code (SMC)
10.52.030 requires the adjacent property
owner or tenant to maintain the vegetation
that impacts the sidewalk and planting strip
area immediately adjacent to their property.

another abandon car

I just reported another stolen vehicle that was dumped on the side of the AMPM Arco station on MLK. This is a HUGE problem in my neighborhood and I'm really bummed that Arco is not taking steps just to report stolen cars being dumped on the side of their property. As a matter of fact they are encouraging this by allowing the weeds to grow so tall that it gives cover to potential car problems. I let it sit for a few weeks this time hoping that I could just get in touch with someone from their company and get them to report it, but their customer service department won't respond to my messages. A sad day for my neighborhood.

Watching TV

I just walked by today and this TV is still sitting on their property. I kind of joked that maybe they were waiting for it to biodegrade, but maybe they really are?!? They picked up the tires (or somebody did) but no other real changes. How long has this tv been here now?

still life with stacked tires

Although Arco AM/PM gas station is still not picking up their trash. At least someone in the neighborhood has started stacking their trash tires to make it look more artsy. Way to go Arco!

As if you didn't see this coming...the problem is that when there is a little trash on the street and Arco does not pick it up off their property. Then next thing you know more people start leaving trash in the same area and the problem gets worse and worse. Thanks AM/PM for being the crappiest neighbors on the planet!!!

still waiting

same trash behind the store still has not been picked up in a month.

no hope for am pm

Much of the construction is done along MLK, I was hoping that this would get the AM/PM to start cleaning up it's act, but of course I was wrong since Arco seems to be going for being the worst company on the planet. Isn't charging us too much for gas enough? The property is once again over grown with weeds. I took these tires to the dump myself yesterday since they seem utterly uninterested in picking up their own lot.

Trash Trash Trash part two

One more photo of all the trash collecting at the AMPM