Brick Prick Ticked

Jim McAuliffe of Lawrenceville thought he was being really clever when he came up with the idea of shipping bricks to Congress via UPS as a way of telling the bums in Washington that they should secure the border with Mexico.

Unfortunately for McAuliffe, it turns out that some of the people who haul mail around the Capitol are slightly more clevererer.

A Senate postmaster is refusing to deliver some of the bricks from his facility directly to congresspeople, claiming that they require $3.90 of U.S. postage (in addition to the UPS charge) to be delivered.

Said Mr. McAuliffe about his plot's foiling:

"It's ridiculous," he said. "They delivered all the other packages but now that the volume is so much higher, they're being ugly about it."

Let me reiterate -- the guy who came up with an idea expressly conceived to inconvenience and annoy people thinks that its "ugly" for those same people to evoke a legal reason not to waste their time or strain their backs on him.

Mr. McAuliffe, the people who deliver mail to the Congress already have enough to worry about without people like you bugging them. Drive the bricks to D.C. yourself.