Avenue Road and St. Clair

Plate bent up on the corner of The Avenue Road Arts School. Actually kind of a pointy edge so close to Brown Public School but not sharp sharp just pointy.

Fall Colours in David Balfour Park

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David Balfour Again

6:49pm

It was remarkable and disturbing to me that less than an hour later I saw another fridge or freezer with the door swung partly open in a truck outside of the Home Depot at Laird and Eglington. I did a search for specific safety concerns around fridges with the modern magnetic sealing strips but can find no information relating to the possibility of a child or otherwise being unable to open such a door. In theory I suppose they would be no more difficult to open than the fridge would be from the outside but I'm left wondering if the doors on horizontal units with the door on top pose a hazard. I also wonder if very small children might not be up to the task of opening even the standard fridges.

6:00pm

I removed the folding portion of the hasp as well as the seal from the ice chest.

5:54pm

I removed the seal from the middle one and put it inside the fridge.

5:52pm

I found these three fridges outside the snack bar at Sunnybrook park in here in Toronto. The one on the right was full of water and had no seal. The one in the middle had a seal but the fibreglass insulation left in it prevented the door from shutting. Both it and the one on the left were to my mind potential killers. The ice chest on the left had an intact seal and an improvised hardware store hasp set that could not be opened from the inside contrary to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's Refrigerator Act of 1956 which can be downloaded in pdf. format and found at: http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/rsa.html and is outlined at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5072.html

Lost

Lost track of where this one was...anybody know?

Yonge St. West Side South of Bloor

Bit of a trip hazard next to a busy street.

College and Augusta

This little guy reminded me why I pick up trip hazards and call all these holes and things in to 311 the city's 24 hour access line. They've been a great help.

Leaf

First leaves begin to fall.

Grate Openning

Significant hazard to a dog or someone with a small foot (like a child) in a damaged grate adjoining the sidewalk at the Krishna Temple at Roxborough and Avenue Rd.

Cover in Place

What the openings bellow look like with the cover in place.

110 Poplar Plains Rd.

Ouch! Six by six hole in the new pavement. Called Enbridge after talking to 311.

Freeform

Someones spontaneous sculpture in Sir Winston Churchill Park.

Sir Winston Churchill Park Ravine

New split rail fence in the park I used to toboggan in as a kid.

Elizabeth and Dundas

St. Clair Centre

Little guy just as I found him on the steps of the St. Clair Centre.

Suede Dress

Suede dress. . .Luxury?

Nuit Blanche at The Christie Streetcar Barns

Amazingly colourful display here. Noticed lots of war in the themes this year. Hoping that the unpleasantness that that created might help bring peace.

Nuit Blanche

One of the Artisan's windows inside the new Wychwood Streetcar Barns development.