Posted on 01/07/2009 12:43:59 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
MEXICO CITY – The country that gave the world chewing gum is getting gummed up: The average square yard (meter) of Mexico City sidewalk has 70 blobs of discarded chew.
Now Mexico is responding with innovations ranging from expensive sidewalk steam-cleaners to natural chewing gum that breaks down quickly. It's even telling its citizens (gulp!) to swallow their gum.
The general in the war on discarded chewing gum is Ricardo Jaral, Mexico City's director for conservation of public spaces. He bemoans the blackened gobs that mar the newly restored 700-year-old downtown area, whose rough, porous paving stones serve as stubborn gum traps.
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When you cannot stop the gangs, drug traffickers, and kidnappers, go after people who chew gum.
Earth to Mexico, there’s no solution to the “tragedy of the commons”. Good luck.
Gobs of gum everywhere? Great way to spread TB!
Gum control.
When gum is outlawed only outlaws will chew gum.
Gum on the sidewalk of Praed Street in London. Governments in Britain spend an estimated $305 million a year cleaning up chewing gum.
Photograph by Jonathan Player for The New York Times
Gum That Won’t Stick to Shoes? It’s in the Works
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
Published: December 26, 2007
LOL :)
It doesn't appear that at least England's gum control is working.
Gracious. Mexico sucks. Their people are being slaughtered or running out of the place by the thousands and they’re worried about GUM. Their problem is they have a country full of people living 18th century sanitation. And I’m tired of them bringing it here.
THE WAR NEXT DOOR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151549/posts
[snips]“How do you begin to understand that so many people are dying in Mexico? More than 5,000 casualties because of “narcotrafficking.” That’s more than all of the American troops that have died fighting an actual war in Iraq.”
One grisly new tactic is beheadings. A headless corpse hung above a busy highway almost two hours before police covered it with a sheet - the head found in a nearby park.
In Tijuana, nine men were decapitated last month, three of them policemen, their badges stuck in their mouths - some of the 40 murders in Tijuana occurred in just one weekend.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/eveningnews/main4672172.shtml
HEDLY LAMAR: “Well, I hope you brought enough for everybody.”
No, don’t ever, ever swallow it. It will get stuck in your pyloric valve (whatever that is), according to my high school biology teacher.
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