Over the summer we had an outdoor concert series on UB South Campus. Every week University Facilities came out and put up snow fence. The first week they sent out a crew with snow fence, fence posts, and a post driver. Apparently they decided this was too easy so for the rest of the series of concerts they sent out a different crew, a crew of 3 people, who came with snow fence, fence posts, and this time, a front loader. It seems that this crew felt the best way to drive the fence posts into the ground was to use the front loader to drive them in. Now this did turn out to be a humorous process to watch, as they bent as many fence posts as they drove in. Of course as I watched these New York State employees do this work it helped to remind me why New York State is in such a budget crisis.