I just sent this letter off to the City Council, and I wanted to share it with you too!

From:

Robert F W Whitlock
[address redacted]

To:

Olympia City Council Members,
City of Olympia Staff,
Residents of the City of Olympia

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Dear Members of the Olympia City Council, City Staff and Residents of Olympia:

Saw a weird recreational vehicle downtown, making a lot of noise behind the old Safeway near the dumpsters. Since these dumpsters used to feed a good portion of the people I know in Olympia's downtown, I decided to investigate a little.

Turns out, that the weird tent on top hides the drilling derrick this truck uses to drill core samples of the underlying geology. They were typifying the rock for determining the load bearing capacity before construction design begins. Hope they didn't penetrate any aquifers... I'd just hate for the toxic sludge underlying downtown Oly to spring up in the police parking area in ten or twenty years...