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Radio Extra: Anti-Dibs Vigilante Clears Block, Creates 'Art Installation'

By  Jon Hansen and Benjamin Woodard | February 13, 2015 3:44pm 

 A resident of a West Rogers Park block cleared dibs stuff and created an "art installation."
A resident of a West Rogers Park block cleared dibs stuff and created an "art installation."
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courtesy Derek Bedard

WEST ROGERS PARK — For one North Side resident, enough was enough: it was time for dibs to be over.

Vince — who only wanted to be identified by his first name in fear of retaliation by his neighbors— said he collected all the household items left on his block's mostly snowless street and piled them up on the corner parkway.

On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Ben Woodard says the reaction from neighbors ranges from elation to violent:

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