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October 26, 2009 |
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Cleanup for the Cleanup Crew
FOUND by Joe
in Doc Weiller Beach, Los Angeles, California
I volunteered to help the Kids Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup at Dock Weiler Beach. There were over 2,000 kids carrying plastic bags and wearing green gloves to pick up trash on the beach.
While performing this duty, I realized that the majority of the trash on the beach that day was actually from the "Clean Up." I did my best with the time I had, but I wonder if they should schedule an entire cleanup crew just to clean up after the original cleanup crew. Most of the kids trash bags were filled with the trash generated from their lunch on the beach.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
If each kid filled an entire trash bag with the residue of their own lunch...well no wonder there's so much concern about child obesity these days.
Gotta watch that ocean, it'll attack you if you turn your back on it for a second! Even if you're 400 yards up the beach, practically in the dunes...it'll getcha!
There I was thinking that only a married couple could adopt a beach.
Oh, and by all means, DO stay clear of these large drums and barrels with the trefoil radiation sign on it. These will be picked up later and piled up with all tose dead batteries for composting.
n case of injury or drowning, the child should be rushed to see Doc Weiler at Beach Memorial Hospita
I really hate to be a wet blanket, but I don't quite understand how this is a "find."
@Baby basil: Good point about child obesity.
I guess it's being considered a find if it reached the ground unintentionally?
But if you have a cleanup crew for the cleanup crew, then you'll need a cleanup crew for that cleanup crew and so on... and where will it end? Such a paradox.
"Don't turn your back on the ocean" - so strange that this find is for today, when last night I dreams of trying to escape the ocean and, having turned my back on it to go into a house, waves pounded the windows till they broke.
That's my favorite safety rule now: "Don't turn your back on the ocean."
Others in the running: "Don't take your eye off the seagulls; but don't be caught looking up from directly under them either." "If you see the bear scat, then you'd better scat." "Be alert for continental drift."
@Long Time Lurker, and then you wet the bed?
@Eusta B., yeah I was wondering about that. Can you be a finder if you generated what was found?
Librarian, I teach my students to be on alert for continental drift. You just never know.
And, out where I live, sudden limb drop is an issue.
And don't forget to watch out for the undertow. (Oh, I forgot...we're not supposed to go near the water.)
Today's topic:
"Used condoms found on the beach....
Medical waste or Recyclable?
Discuss and Debate.
Yes, HPD, I've heard that today's rubbers are so durable, they can be turned inside out, washed in your dishwasher, and reused up to 10 times.
Oops...sorry! That was Debbie Meyer Green Bags. I wonder why I feel so confused today.
HPD...many years ago, me, at beach, burying condoms in the sand, late at night.
Fast forward years later...watching kids at the beach, digging..and me, cringing.
@ Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. ... please say you weren't wearing them at the time!
Alotta had changed her name after the events that occurred because of the inconvenience the name caused her. Her new name is Sandy Fagina.
I believe she spelled it "Alotte Fegina," actually.
@ Dr. J, Eusta B and HPD: "medical waste" is precisely why adopting a beach is for couples, not small children. Does medical waste also include popbottles full of pee, or are those only found next to the interstate, thrown there by truckers oblivious to the fact that they will later be grossing out a cleanup crew of small children who have adopted this stretch of highway?
I agree with you, Gross. Medical waste and the disgusting pollution of our beautiful coastal beaches are not laughing matters. People are such pigs any more. It's like they just don't care.
I live on a dead-end road. No other women use this road but me & the mail-lady. Yet I'm continually finding Pepsi cans along our road (her brand) and these huge, bloated pads in the ditch. I don't know if they're adult diapers or what. I've seen her out of her car at the bottom of the hill before. I assume she was having a bathroom break.
Goddamn Eusta, do have to share every frickin story of your life here? Get a friend who can stomach your shit.
Feel free to skip my posts if you're having a bout of rectal dysfunction.
That's what you should tell your mail lady. Hahaha!
Upset Stomach, frankly I'm surprised that you didn't insist that Eusta B. get a (expletive) blog.
So is it in Comic Sans?
The Comic Sans ban must continue. Forget health care reform and war stuff, Comic Sans IS the issue we must deal with now.
<font="comic sans">Oh Ricky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Ricky! Hey Ricky!</font>
They "found" this at an event they were a part of? This is kinda stretching it I think.
Hey, Eusta B, I have it on good authority that FedEx women use those Tyvex mailing bags -- waterproof with a peel-and-stick seal! Maybe you should hand your postal service nemesis a handful o' those! LOL!
Hmmm... reflecting on my "criminal past", I once had the (enforced) (but welcome) opportunity to "help the rangers clean the beaches". Part of the consequences for my DUI.
This was decades ago... and there wasn't any warnings about what to avoid. We were dropped off at one end
An all-female crew 0f 6, there were 3 gals who were sort of older juvenile delinquents (in their 40s? low-voiced smoker's hack). The first day, they were worried; scared that they were under surveillence and that we were being graded. Decided that the total # of bags filled would count big. They wrestled a whole tire into a bag!! It was a sight to see.
On the second day, they had re-thought their strategy. They brought thermoses with Bailey's Irish Creme & brandy in the coffee!! (I said 'no'. Figured I could wait 'til home & nightfall, at the least.)
No tape to sit on; no fly-by. No once-a-year. Things have changed!