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Roads and sidewalks in the US capital Washington were again clogged as thousands of federal employees returned to work Thursday following the record-breaking government shutdown -- but some, like management analyst Lee Hardwick, never left.

The pink and orange machines, about the size of a large cooler, roam sidewalks from Santa Monica to Silver Lake.

But these last cents won’t show up on the sidewalk or in the supermarket.

In Chiba City, where parkland had been created on landfill dumped into Tokyo Bay, the sidewalks rippled like fabric.

They were scrawled across sidewalks, proclaimed on banners, repeated on the street and the tram, spoken at the hospital, at home, by his wife, by his children.