Luckily there were only these bits of dear droppings. LEGO City is easy to clean!

@Miyakan said:
"I find the idea of the person operating one of these sweeper brushes by hand slightly hilarious. Those things usually spin really fast, so I'm just picturing him being dragged along by this rogue spinning sweeper."

Or being pushed backwards, since you'd probably want to push the debris ahead of you with this style brush.

Well, that looks like a disaster about to happen.

@MCLegoboy: If those are Deer 'Droppings'...what ARE they EATING?!?!?

Wanted one of those, but it came out in...'dead period' in my area for polybags; which funny enough, a year-ish later polybags were flowin' like water (today, I know of 6-7 places w/polybags).

@AllenSmith said:
"Well, that looks like a disaster about to happen."

Funnily, it's called the "Disaster 99". It's not big enough to qualify for a triple-digit name.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"Lego City was clearly hit hard by the 2008 recession."

2008 was arguably the best Lego year. 2017 was pretty good as well.

I have this one!! Always thought the blue soft piece was so interesting

He must have made someone real mad to be assigned to this job. Otherwise he would be driving one of these bad boys: 6649, 7242, 60249

got this from my mum as a motivator to learn more :D

PEAK impulse :D

Shrink-inflation is nothing new, 4933 came out a year early and had the useful double brush holder to build your own street cleaner vehicle. Best part is the BRUSH Ø24X18.2, great for coral etc., shame the most interesting pieces get discontinued.

@asesor said:
"got this from my mum as a motivator to learn more :D"

Learn more or you'll end up doing this for a living?

I got this one for christmas 2008. It contributed to the clutter of my City sets because of all the small extras. I've since re-acquired it along with 5611 Public Works, which I still feel is the better deal for the price.

@brick_r said:
" @MCLegoboy: If those are Deer 'Droppings'...what ARE they EATING?!?!?

Wanted one of those, but it came out in...'dead period' in my area for polybags; which funny enough, a year-ish later polybags were flowin' like water (today, I know of 6-7 places w/polybags)."

Good news; these little sets came in boxes despite being polybag-sized. At the time polybags were only used for promotionals and other irregular releases. From 2008-2010 they did sold regularly available sets like this in these tiny boxes.

@PurpleDave said:
" @asesor said:
"got this from my mum as a motivator to learn more :D"
Learn more or you'll end up doing this for a living?"
Maybe @asesor was struggling with motivation in physics and needed to understand there are practical consequences to ignorance of the subject.

@ambr said:
"4933 came out a year early"
Yikes, another one! How many of these did Lego make? I feel like they really missed an opportunity to have the worker riding a skateboard, or a bicycle, just to make it more impressive.

Apparently there is a real tool called a hand-held power broom which looks similar to this device, but much, much smaller and more manageable. Most one-man sweepers have wheels though. I'm still not so sure I'd want to try the ones that don't.

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @Norikins said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Lego City was clearly hit hard by the 2008 recession."

2008 was arguably the best Lego year. 2017 was pretty good as well."

Yes, 2008 was amazing. We got Indiana Jones for starters."

Also Agents and Green Grocer.

..and yet, still somehow better than some of the polys that come out now.

@Brickalili said:
"Honestly this is one of those cases where just using the hand tools in the bin behind him might be more effective than an unwieldy mechanisation "

Hand tools are there to clean him up off the ground, after things inevitably go Full Murphy.