Nice, subby

+1

Well, they wouldn't her to warp the children.

FTA: The mayor wondered whether scraps of the yarn might eventually be used by birds to line nests around town. She mused, "Wouldn't that be a cool kind of recycling?"

We do something similar for this exact reason. Put out some bright orange yarn and cut up into small pieces in a dish outside near our bird feeder. Then you can easily see some nests in the trees--just look for the bright orange!

That's a rippingly good yarn!

I'm gonna go around and steal them.
Then I'm going to make a nice afgan.

Its for the upcoming global cooling

Some mayors are OK. I like this one thinking aloud...

I'm currently test/sample knitting a sock, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

/Mmmmm, Shibui.

I guess it's better than having a mystery shiatter around town.

What a knitting fetish looks like.
Of course there is such a thing. RULE 34.

Kim Jong B Illin: I guess it's better than having a mystery shiatter around town.

No, it's not. If you catch the mystery shiatter, then you can blackmail him into getting you the recon photos for downtown Hanoi.

Guerrilla knitters have been striking lamp posts and electric poles here in Seattle for years. Applying for a permit is sort of contrary to the whole point.

Farkin Jersey. You need a permit for everything here except bribing a politician or being a Guido.

That's quite the knit wit.

StreetlightInTheGhetto: Sheehan said he's not looking to get the Mystery Knitter in trouble. He just wants the person (or people) to get the appropriate permits from borough officials to adorn public spaces.

Sure.

It's a public space and apparently the town approves. Can you just leave the person the f--k alone already? What are you going to do if they don't get a permit? Stake out the park and issue a fine?

Could you just not look a gift horse in the damn mouth?

Most people enjoy a little chaos and color in their lives. Some want an ordered world where everything that happens has been officially approved. Naturally the second group spends more time on this type of 'issue', so they usually get their way. Annoying, isn't it?

/in fact my cat is acting like the second group right now.

Mystery knitter needs to apply for some talent.

We were rofl at this when it appeared on our local news the other night.

Some of the townsfolk were saying it's a felony *eye roll* and I just about died laughing at that thought.

How HORRID it must be to see!

/seeing this hit fark makes it even funnier

Oznog. I love you. That's amazing. Rule 34 really does exist.

/itchy.

God damn I hate crochety old people.

NJ town wants Mystery Knitter to apply for permit pervert after imagining what else gets cozied.

There. Fixed it.

Perhaps the Mystery Knitter could knit up some cozies for all the white bicycles and crosses that dot the public right-of-way. That would be all warm and fuzzy.

Veeoh: Oznog. I love you. That's amazing. Rule 34 really does exist.

/itchy.

It kinda seems like maybe a Russian farmer's poor man's fetish? I mean, where it's cold and you can't afford leather or PVC bodysuits...

Seems to me keeping that stuff... uh, "clean"... would be quite a limitation.

THERE WAS A SECOND KNITTER BEHIND THE KNOLL

Oznog: What a knitting fetish looks like.
Of course there is such a thing. RULE 34.

Thank you, Oznog.

Of course I had to Google "knittish fetish" (all your fault Oznog.)

Imagine that, you can actually order knit lingerie and the fetish gear. http://wolltraum.de/ (new window)

An example of their work:

Someone has their panties in a bunch.

//knitted panties I presume

"One of the scarves is on a pole about half a block from her shop"

squeez cheez: Sheehan said he's not looking to get the Mystery Knitter in trouble. He just wants the person (or people) to get the appropriate permits from borough officials to adorn public spaces.

Oh fark you in the neck.

eldoobie: "One of the scarves is on a pole about half a block from her shop"

It took a second to identify that. I think it would be quite nice in -40 degree weather.

I'll be she's a total hottie! (new window)

squeez cheez: Sheehan said he's not looking to get the Mystery Knitter in trouble. He just wants the person (or people) to get the appropriate permits from borough officials to adorn public spaces.

Arthur Figgis: Oh fark you in the neck.

Yeah, you're killing the whole "mysterious" and "outlaw" element which makes it magic. Without that, it's just a stupid waste of time.

Unless.... this person is working FOR the knitter(s), in order to bulk up on their outlaw notoriety by publicizing the police's efforts to nab him/her. After all, you're not really an "outlaw" until the police ARE looking for you.

eldoobie: "One of the scarves is on a pole about half a block from her shop"

Is that a Pez dispenser cozy?

Oznog: What a knitting fetish looks like.
Of course there is such a thing. RULE 34.

What. The. Hell.?

Knitta, please.

Nice one, subby.

They can pry my needles & yarn from my cold, dead hands.

/Honestly, a permit? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of guerrilla art?

...and it looks like I missed sonder 's post.

Aww, it's just Yarn Bombing .

As a knitter, I've always thought this kinda thing was spectacularly retarded. However, it does not need a permit.

"artist"...

Probably some half crazy old lady ..

true about NJ if there's a way to fine you or take your money aka "Apply for a Permit" they'll do it

Just ask the town of Asbury Park.....

/lived in NJ 35 yrs
//Hope the staff of "Jersey Shore get the Guido slapped out of them by a gigantic wave that rip tides them out to the ocean ending up as bate for the crews of "Deadliest Catch"
///Look hon it's a double feature!