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| A creepy dude used to hang out, sitting on a milkcrate outside a convenience store in Ducktown, Tennessee. This fact proved to be key in an murder investigation, and was brought to life by the young woman above. “He would just sit on a milk crate at the corner with a black mutt that had brown splotches…I never talked to him because he seemed odd and creepy,” she added, “He gave off a weird vibe.” –> full story |
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| Crater Lake Milk comes to the rescue in a quick flat tire repair job. Real life at its most crate. |
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| Everyone loves and respects the usefulness of milkcrates. The word seems to be spreading lately and I can’t even keep up with the crate postings all over the web. Wool Windings blog posted some images of a recent kayaking trip. Our good friend the milkcrate made some key appearances. |
The state of Massachusetts has always had some interesting priorities. Michael F. Kane, a Democrat, is putting forth a bill that would create a penalty scale for crate thieves. Fines for first, second, and third offenses, all the way up to $1,000 and a year in prison for stealing more than $100 worth of crates. Kane said, “These crates have been used for many years in college dorms for basically storage and furniture… Obviously, I don’t want to see any college students going to jail over this, but it is becoming a cost to the industry.” I can’t wait for the first rich kid at Harvard to be jailed because of this stupid law. Read more about the Mass tax dollars at work.
The Dallas news tries to hate on Larry Wells’ milkcrate lifestyle. Read the full story –>Some of Dallas’ homeless prefer woods to shelters
I found this baby on the ole flickr. Lacey Volk, a Pittsburg artist created this. I love any artistic interpretation of my favorite plastic object.
The Summer SPACE1026 did a show at Bravin Lee Programs in New York City. Chief Magazine did an interview just before the opening and the above picture is from that time. Read the full story here.
The milkcrate news has been slow in these dog days of Summer. But, once again the Australian people have come to the table with something pushing the milkcrate lifestyle forward. Milk Crate Theater is a “solely dedicated to the homeless and disadvantaged community”. Click the photo above for more pics of their work in action.
Once again the Australians are on the crate cutting edge. This sitting crate man (click the photo, for towo larger shots) was placed in a very busy intersection in Bendigo, Australia. It was only there for a few hours, but made quite a stir. Read the full story.
There have been quite a few odd follow ups to the crate theft stories. They are all quite strange. It’s not really news that people steal milk crates, so this is what we get. From Iowa – a dairy claims they lose 50% of their crates every year, with losses of $250,000. From New Haven, CT – a very strange rambling story, scroll to the end for a few sentences about a racoon with a milkcrate stuck on it’s head. You don’t know how bad I wish there was a photo for that story. But, why is this news?
