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I automated complaining once a month to the local water utility about a persistent puddle in the street in front of my home, caused by a leak.

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Did it work? If so, how many months did it take? If not, how long has it been running for?

I had been running it for 4 months and last month they patched the pothole that the puddle created, so I suspended it. I think I may restart it though, water is starting to seep through the patching.

Ohh someone should do this for the pot holes in the Bay Area.

You could do what one guy did and start spray-painting penises around the pot holes.

(slightly NSFW) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/artist-penis-potho...

Time to program the Roomba.. just add image recognition and spray paint module..

Too many potholes for a Roomba, need a drone with a spray paint can.

Hell, just scrape seeclickfix for reported pothole locations, have the drone fly there and draw a dong, and boom, instant fix.

Ah, yes, this will not end well, but I will enjoy reading about it!

IIRC, boston wrote a mobile app that people could install to auto report potholes. http://www.streetbump.org/

This was five years ago, donno if they've improved it.

That thing was awesome. I lived in Boston at the time and loved reporting potholes- they would usually fix them within a week and post a picture of the "after." Made it really fun to participate.

Why not once a week or once a day?

So the Shawshank Redemption method, eh?

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