‘420’ Revelers Leave Golden Gate Park with 10,000 Pounds of Garbage

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, Apr 24, 2014.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I wonder if this is Futurecurrent's type of friends. Tout the environment, yet trash it.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...olden-Gate-Park-with-10000-Pounds-of-Garbagee

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    The mellow, "peace now," countercultural, environmentally conscious “420” celebration deposited 10,000 pounds of garbage on what is known as Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, leaving volunteers and park workers to clean up the mess.

    According to the San Francisco Chronicle’s website SF Gate, this year’s celebration drew a massive amount of revelers estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000. The pot smokers' untidiness will cost the city more than $10,000 in cleanup costs.

    The immense load of empty bags of chips, candy wrappers, and snack containers left behind was evidence that it was indeed the remnants of weed smokers with a case of the munchies on steroids.

    The SF Gate reported that one father, Dan Kling, who had taken his 2½-year-old daughter to the park for some family time, was repulsed by the behavior of the “420” partiers. Although he didn’t mind that there was a party, he objected to the pigsty that they left behind. "If you can't be responsible for yourselves, you can't have a party," he said.

    In fairness to the stoners, the park does not provide additional waste management containers and portable toilets for unofficial events. Moreover, the fact that “420” fell on a beautiful weekend added to the amount of people joining in the bacchanalia. Connie Chan, a spokeswoman with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, explained, "Permitted events are well organized and planned much in advance with multiple city agencies to ensure public safety and patron enjoyment."

    Lt. Simon Silverman of the San Francisco Police Department Park Divison remarked, "It's almost completely unmanageable. There are no officials you can contact to deal with things so that's a frustration for us." The discouraged public servant added, "The people paying for all of this are going to be the taxpayers, so it's not without cost."
     
  2. TGregg

    TGregg

    I live in downtown ("uptown" in local lingo) Charlotte - for a few more days anyway - and that's about what it looks like after a local Panthers game. Not that bad, but still pretty amazing. A sizable percentage of the general population are just #@*&ing slobs.
     
  3. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Reminds me of an incident years ago. A group of "environmentalists" horrified at the thought of people driving in gas guzzling SUV's. Set fire to a bunch of them, filling the very air they supposedly cared about with thick toxic fumes.
     
  4. As someone who almost every day picks up trash from the beach and woods near me I hate litter bugs. The ones who bother me the most are the one's who are leaving water bottles. There is no excuse. It's not like they are drunk. If you carried it in carry it out.

    It happened just the other day. I saw some kids hanging out with a fire. I was thinking of asking them not to litter but they were not drinking beers so I figured they were OK. Wrong. Next day ....they had left water bottles and some other trash.

    Sometimes the problem is that if things are already a mess, people give up and just do the easy thing and leave it. That's why I try to keep the areas clean. The garbage men must think I drink a real lot because I often bring up full garbage bags from the beach.

    I'm afraid the youngsters today are just so cynical and given to despair that they just don't give a turd. Part of it is the background knowledge of GW and they feel that - hell, the earth is screwed anyway why should I bother?
     
  5. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    It's good to see your waste management degree wasn't a total waste.