Oh my!
I woke up this moring with a mamma, a daddy flamingo and three babies in my yard!
It's a fund raiser that the high school kids are doing at church. They came with this note:
You've been Flamingoed!! To get rid of these pests and to choose the next victem, a $20 fee is required. Flamingo insurance can also be provided for $10. All proceeds contribute towards the 30-Hour Famine. Please call the Flamingo Removal Service at, 443-***-****
The kids go into a lock down the last week in April to raise money for the hungry around the world. They decided that they needed a clever way to raise some funds upfront. They're doing quite well, and I have horrible plastic pink flamingos in my front yard.
One of my neighbors walked over to ask me "what in the world are you thinking?" Shheessshhh.
Blessings on your rainy day garden!
Elf
I've Been Flamingoed!!
I have to say I think that's a pretty rotten way of fund raising.
The church group at my hometown church does the flamingos, but nothing like this. You pay them $15 to flamingo someone's yard - and they put a huge flock up, not a handful - for birthdays, anniversaries, whatever. The person getting the flamingos certainly isn't asked to pay anything.
They put up the birds for a day along with an sign for whatever event is being celebrated and come and get them at the end of the day.
I don't care how good the cause, this is not a clever way to raise funds.
I agree... clever, but not well thought through. It would be more politic I think to offer the *option* of choosing the next person for $20, or just calling to have the flamingos removed. This approach seems more like extortion to me.
I recall a church youth group doing something similar a while back, more like what hart described... for a fee, they would install a flock of flamingos in somebody's yard, for example 50 flamingos to celebrate a 50th birthday. Their clever twist was that they would come to take them away in 1 week... or, for a little extra donation (like $5), you could have them removed ASAP.
Sounds like this is right up there with having small children panhandle in the middle of a busy intersection in order to "support their team" or other fundraising campaign. Sorry, I saw an opportunity to post one of my major pet peeves and I took it...
Lastelf, did you cave and fork over the un-ransom money?
I'm sure they would give in to any protest and remove them no cost.......I wonder if the kids have done this before, or this is the first time and they got the details a little backwards.
Gotta give the kids credit for trying.
The kids are really cute about the whole thing, and I think that it's all in good fun. The real rascals are the ones deciding to make you the next recipient. :)
Oh well. I'm out thirty dollars, but I did have some fun with it. I sent them to an old member of our congregation who is still on the book. He's about 3 hours south. Ha! They have to deliver. He's not going to buy insurance-- he doesn't think that they'll be back!
:)
Elf
lol - va beach?
I think that's pretty funny and at least it's for a good cause. It's better than putting a port-a-john in the front of your yard like I saw a small town doing to collect funds so they wouldn't have to raise taxes.