Invaders Bury American Border In Garbage

[duck_duck]

UCSON - After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.

Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across southern Arizona from 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

But that's only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...rtrash-ON.html

This is just RUBISH because duck_duck is just a troll! lol

[HungLikeJesus]

Someday all of that trash will be worth something.
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duck_duck, you don't seem happy.

Just relax.

You'll feel better.

Really. Try it.

Post something nice. Tell a joke. Don't be so serious.

We can help you.

The Cellar is your friend. Resistance is futile.
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and where the heck is Ucson?

[Flint]

She has more posts than you! ha ha ha

[HungLikeJesus]

... I'm thinking of going for quality instead of quantity. I don't have a chance, do I?

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm afraid she can't comprehend this alleged trash is spread out over thousands of square miles.

[TheMercenary]

I say we hire some illegal aliens to go down there and pick it up. We could pay them by the pound of recovered trash.

[freshnesschronic]

Wow I wish I could dig up some news on the bad stuff happening in Hong Kong. But no, I'm a better person than that, unfortunately.

"but nothing bad ever happens in Hong Kong! "

Yeah, ok.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well, you have to behave when you live like this.

[freshnesschronic]

I don't like plaid that much Bruce.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You see all those windows?

“NEW YORK rain” is the local term for water that drips, annoyingly, from air-conditioners onto passers-by. In Hong Kong unwary pedestrians face more dangerous precipitation. On July 22nd a 78-year-old woman was rushed to hospital after a pair of scissors, hurled from a multi-storey building, lodged in her skull. The same day, a 28-year-old man in another part of the city suffered cuts after another pair of scissors hit him on the head, while a boy survived a brush with an iron bar lobbed from yet another high-rise window.
Despite all the modern sanitation at their disposal, many Hong Kong citizens still seem to prefer chucking rubbish out of the nearest window. As any housing estate resident will confirm, as well as a regular rain of beer cans and cigarette butts, other objects—used packets of Viagra, dirty cat litter, glass bottles, mattresses and even refrigerators—also fly past the window. Much of this is plain bad manners. But some also blame rising inequality for the downpour, which appears to be getting worse. Much of the object-throwing takes place in the city's public housing estates, where many of Hong Kong's poorer people live cramped together in tiny apartments. Many of their shoddily constructed buildings are crumbling: among the most common objects falling out of windows last summer were the windows themselves. As a result, the government had to spend HK$68m ($9m) on emergency maintenance of its housing.
Though the economy's recovery since the panic over the respiratory disease SARS in 2003 has lifted living standards, the fortunes of workers have lagged behind those of the middle classes. If people cannot heave their political masters out of office, they can at least heave a broken television out of the window. Given the mainland's far greater economic and social disparities, the authorities in Beijing must be hoping that this is one trend that does not spread north.

I think I'd rather have the trash out in the desert than raining down on my head.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

Wow I wish I could dig up some news on the bad stuff happening in Hong Kong. But no, I'm a better person than that, unfortunately.

"but nothing bad ever happens in Hong Kong! "

Yeah, ok.

I guess we could discuss the Vietnamese Refugee Prison Camps they have around the country. I personally visited 2 of them in the mid 80's. Pretty dismal places, people had been locked up in them for 20 years. I don't know if they are still there. One was next to the Kai Tak Airport, I am sure the Chinese have renamed it. But let's not go there...

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I say we hire some illegal aliens to go down there and pick it up. We could pay them by the pound of recovered trash.

Good idea! divert and contain! I'm thinking we need to truck all our garbage to the border!

[BigV]

Originally Posted by HLJ

Someday all of that trash will be worth something.
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and where the heck is Ucson?

HLJ, may I offer you a spot of T?

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by BigV

HLJ, may I offer you a spot of T?

Thanks BigV, I could use a little C8H10N4O2.