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Photos in the genre of Grant Hutchinson’s Splorp.com

   (2004.09.21)

In law enforcement, every letter counts.

Disused police car’s labeling reads LICE SERVICE
   (2004.09.07)

Further evidence of the subway’s commitment to accessibility:

Laser-printed sign tacked onto elevator window reads ‘Elevator not in use.’ Hand-scrawled graffiti reads ‘You get the shaft’
   (2004.09.05)
Sign in window reads ‘285 Queen St. E.’; on the glass, graffiti reads ‘Crack is not where it’s at’
   (2004.09.05)

They couldn’t just set up a ladder?

Orange scissor lift to the left of a steel-and-glass building zigzags two guys up to the third storey much further to the right
   (2004.09.05)

I keep seeing lonesome Toys “Я” Us shopping carts roaming the byways like forlorn tumbleweeds – so many of them, in fact, that I can put together a splitscreen effect.

Daytime and nighttime photos stitched together complete an image of a Toys R Us shopping cart with orange flip-up warning card in upper basket (‘please do not leave child unattended’)
   (2004.08.22)

Did you know that asphalt shingle tar comes shrink-wrapped in slabs – the way tenchos keep fish fresh in sushi-bar refrigerator cases?

Solid, oleaginous black asphalt tar sits in clear plastic wrapping. One slab is sectioned in half, looking like a jagged oil deposit
   (2004.08.22)

Soon every neighbourhood will have its own KILLDOZER.

Nighttime shot shows the crown of a yellow backhoe’s arm emblazoned with ‘CAT.’ The blue-painted articulated arm reads ‘Vipe Construction Ltd.’
   (2004.07.28)

Yes, a pink slinky alone, abandoned, forgotten down on the subway tracks.

Pink Slinky sits on dun-coloured track ties
   (2004.07.21)

I’d certainly feel jollier ridin’ the range (or UofT) in a tractor this colour. Wouldn’t you?

Small tractor is painted bright orange

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