City Spends $17K on New 'Gum Busting' Machine
The machine will be used regularly to remove gum stuck to downtown city streets.
Downtown Annapolis streets will soon be gum free, or so is the hope of city officials who spent $17,000 on a new "gum busting" machine. The GumBuster, a high temperature power washer, was unveiled on Tuesday as part of Mayor Josh Cohen's beautification process for downtown. "It may seem like a small thing; a little wad of used gum ... All this gum adds up when you literally have thousands of compressed gum wads," Cohen said. He thinks it detracts from the beauty of downtown. "This isn't just some nondescript development that was thrown up. The buildings here are authentic ... Our physical environment is part of our enduring appeal," Cohen said. "One of the core services of city government is making sure the physical environment is top-…
Michael Van Geertruy
6:19 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012
I would like to propose a competing product that my family has been selling for over 1500 years. While it is known by many names in many countries, I affectionately refer to it as "a shovel". It requires no electricity, extra parts, and most workers with an IQ above "simean" levels are able to quickly learn how to use them. Because 16 folks were able to gain training in the use of the "gum-buster… more ›