Wallace, who is president of his homeowner's association in the
Washington, D.C. suburbs, said they were having a terrible problem with
litter near some of his association's homes. The reason is that six very
large, luxurious new houses are being built right next to their
community.

The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the
construction sites and included bags from McDonald's, Burger King and
7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty
bottles, etc.

He went to see the site supervisor and even the general contractor,
politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the neighborhood, to no avail.
He called the city , county, and police and got no help there either.

So here's what his community did. They organized about twenty folks, named themselves
the "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged to go out at lunch time and "police" the
trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.
They bought navy blue baseball caps and had the initials "INS" embroidered in gold on the caps.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people might, mistakenly, think
the letters really stand for.

After the Inner Neighborhood Services group's first lunchtime pickup
detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras; 46
out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work the
next morning--and haven't come back yet. It has been ten days now.

The General Contractor, I'm told, is madder than hell, but can't say
anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens.
Wallace and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal personnel,
because they have the official name of the group recorded in their
homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the vote to
approve formation of the new subcommittee--and besides, they informed the
real INS in advance of their plans and according to Wallace the INS said
basically, "Have at it"!

SO FOLKS, I THINK YOU COULD SAY THAT AMERICAN INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN!