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Sydney's Coogee beach devastated by garbage after 'backpacker' Christmas party
The Guardian ^ | December 27, 2016

Posted on 12/29/2016 1:09:49 AM PST by SMGFan

A Sydney council has enforced a summer-long alcohol ban on one of the city’s most popular beaches as a result of “the poor and inappropriate behaviour of a few” on Christmas Day.

Coogee beach – a popular destination for backpackers, including many from the UK, on Christmas Day – was left strewn with a reported 15 tonnes of garbage by an estimated 10,000 revellers.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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"a few" , sounds like most
1 posted on 12/29/2016 1:09:49 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Who recalls this from Sesame Street.

Willie Wimple: Litter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTsze_Awpk


2 posted on 12/29/2016 1:10:23 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she is now supports HRC :()
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Beach Lounge
3 posted on 12/29/2016 1:45:35 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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That's only 3 pounds of garbage per reveled. (Unless they're measuring in metric tons).

It seems a little light to me. Most "progressives" have more garbage than that inside their heads.

4 posted on 12/29/2016 3:25:18 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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...reveled = reveler


5 posted on 12/29/2016 3:26:16 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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Looks like end of one of 0’s rallies when he was running for pres.


6 posted on 12/29/2016 3:51:55 AM PST by duckman
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Isn't that the dopey enviro-libtard credo? "Leave only footprints....

...and lots of garbage."

7 posted on 12/29/2016 4:05:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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It’s Australia, so they’re using metric measurements. Another clue is that the story refers to “tonnes”, which are metric tons.

Also, it says that the garbage was left by only a few. Perhaps some 33 people backpacked in about 100 pounds of garbage each; that would be possible, though I have no idea why they’d do such a thing.


8 posted on 12/29/2016 4:07:44 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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“It is disappointing we have to take such a strong stance but we need to reassure the community that they can feel safe when visiting and enjoying the jewel in the crown of Randwick city, Coogee beach.”

Stop apologizing for making decisions like men.

It's the appropriate decision. That is going to cost a fortune to clean up.

Honestly, people are such pigs these days. I can't imagine what some of them live like.

9 posted on 12/29/2016 4:43:25 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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My thoughts exactly. Reminds me of the Mall in DC after Zero’s first ‘coronation’. The Entitled expect others to clean up after them.


10 posted on 12/29/2016 4:46:03 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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Perhaps some 33 people backpacked in about 100 pounds of garbage each; that would be possible, though I have no idea why they’d do such a thing.

They'd probably brought in portable/wheeled coolers that could be recycled or re-used again and again. (But abandoned after intoxication set in).

11 posted on 12/29/2016 5:11:39 AM PST by Does so ("The Business of America is Business"--President Calvin Coolidge...)
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Also possible, but I’d hesitate to use the word “probably” without a bit more evidence that that is what happened.


12 posted on 12/29/2016 5:19:59 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: metmom

Exactly right!


13 posted on 12/29/2016 5:56:20 AM PST by Tax-chick (I love Thomas Sowell!)
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And I guarantee you each and every one of these idiots were ‘environmentalists’...................


14 posted on 12/29/2016 6:13:24 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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