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maxsolomon

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15. You couldn't pay me to do that in Seattle.
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 12:58 PM
Mar 2019

Everywhere that can conceivably house the homeless is doing so: off-ramps, sidewalks, greenbelts, public parks. The trash being generated is toxic. Moldy camping equipment and clothes, human waste, spoiled food, needles.

One I-5 off-ramp in downtown Seattle has been littered with hundreds of needles and their orange caps. The junkies (sorry, "opiate users" ) sit up on a retaining wall and use in full view of passing cars, then toss their garbage down on the road to demonstrate their disdain. The city and the state Transportation Depts point at each other to clean it up. Weeks turn into months...

Conversely, my Sis organizes creek cleanups in rural SE Indiana after the Spring floods, the creeks fill up with garbage from the surrounding roads, fields, and yards. Its a good thing, but the better thing is to not leave shit lying around in the 1st place.

(Today's teens aren't millennials. They're Gen Z.) WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #1
(We used to do that in the '70s.) Igel Mar 2019 #2
I still do while hiking marlakay Mar 2019 #6
(We used to do that in the '70s.) ZERTErYNOthe Mar 2019 #10
I remember the '70's. Mariana Mar 2019 #20
(Totally didn't catch that, but it is a great challenge for all ages) demmiblue Mar 2019 #3
I may be square but I thinkk these genX, gen Z, millenials tags are silly.. panader0 Mar 2019 #4
Whenever I go shore fishing in the Twin Cities, MineralMan Mar 2019 #5
I am so fucking tired of the labels matt819 Mar 2019 #7
Generations don't make sense to me... lame54 Mar 2019 #9
They're just arbitrary 20 year divisions. maxsolomon Mar 2019 #17
I so agree. efhmc Mar 2019 #14
Millenians are the next great civic-minded generation DeminPennswoods Mar 2019 #8
EVERY TIME I take our dog out to poo, calimary Mar 2019 #11
Also people who hawk on the ground. CrispyQ Mar 2019 #12
Vermont has a green up day the first saturday in May every year -- it started in 1970 karynnj Mar 2019 #13
You couldn't pay me to do that in Seattle. maxsolomon Mar 2019 #15
I live in Seattle-- it's bad ismnotwasm Mar 2019 #18
It's so far off the National Radar it's appalling. maxsolomon Mar 2019 #19
The West coast has always had a pipeline ismnotwasm Mar 2019 #21
K & R...for visibility... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #16
Nah, it's important to put them down because they took pictures. Mariana Mar 2019 #22
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