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   From: lazy@unions.com   
      
   A Massachusetts town selectman who painted over fading   
   crosswalks in his town in response to complaints from   
   constituents was criminally charged on Tuesday for his efforts.   
      
   George Simolaris, a selectman in Billerica, about 25 miles from   
   Boston, said he was tired of constituents asking when the white   
   paint would be freshened up, so he fixed the problem himself. He   
   said he bought cans of green paint, the town's official color,   
   and spent the weekend painting over six faded crosswalks.   
      
   "All I've heard for months is: 'When is this going to get   
   done?'" Simolaris said. "I got sick of it."   
      
   Police and town officials said painting the street without   
   authorization was illegal and charged him with two counts of   
   destruction of property, according to Billerica police spokesman   
   Roy Frost.   
      
   Town Manager John Curran said the town was in the midst of a   
   $400,000 pedestrian safety project that requires digging up the   
   street including some of the crosswalks in question, which are   
   slated to be repainted once construction is complete.   
      
   He added that Simolaris would be required to repay the $4,000   
   cost of cleaning up the paint, which he said chipped and smeared.   
      
   "His job is to uphold laws not break them," Curran said. "He has   
   no respect for the governmental process."   
      
   Simolaris defended his actions.   
      
   "I'm just trying to do right by the people in my town," he said.   
   "I didn't think I was intervening in other people's day-to-day   
   activities or doing anything wrong."   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/21/us-usa-massachusetts-   
   paint-idUSKCN0PV29H20150721   
      
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