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.
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
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.