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48 hours after 100 people cleaned up a North Philly corner, trash was dumped there again.
BillyPenn(WHYY - PBS Philly) ^ | 01/21/2022 | Terrill Haigler

Posted on 01/21/2022 1:21:51 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday, I led a team of people in cleaning up a litter-strewn block of North Philadelphia. Over 100 of us spent two and a half hours picking up debris, eventually hauling away more than 10 tons of trash.

Less than 48 hours later, someone illegally dumped a bunch of construction waste on that same block.

To say I didn’t expect that may be a little naive, but it brings up some larger questions: What do we have to do to stop illegal dumping in Philadelphia? What can Philadelphians do to ensure their communities stay clean?

(Excerpt) Read more at billypenn.com ...


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Less than 48 hours after 100 people cleaned up a North Philly corner, trash was dumped there again. We need action.

Aside from carjackings, murder and mayhem , illegal dumping has become a sport in blue cities.
1 posted on 01/21/2022 1:21:51 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Probably those infamous North Philly White Supremacists.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 1:24:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

How could they tell the difference there?


3 posted on 01/21/2022 1:24:42 PM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’d say that hanging illegal dumpers would be a workable solution.


4 posted on 01/21/2022 1:24:43 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Kid Shelleen

Install cameras and signs. When trash appears, review cameras. Get plate numbers or descriptions. Prosecute.

There are probably cameras everywhere already.

Probably don’t want to do that, but the choice is to whine about it for them.


5 posted on 01/21/2022 1:27:17 PM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Probably those infamous North Philly White Supremacists.

That would be the people who cleaned up the mess.


6 posted on 01/21/2022 1:27:50 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Heading over to Philly from Lancaster to dump his trash.

7 posted on 01/21/2022 1:28:13 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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The perpetrators should be arrested, fined, and assigned 40 hours of “community service” cleaning toilets in homeless shelters.


8 posted on 01/21/2022 1:28:30 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I used to work in a Cincinnati ghetto. Nasty place. A couple of times a year I would see members of a white Baptist church waste a Saturday morning to come pick up the trash. It was always the same as in the article. Two days later you’d never know the difference.


9 posted on 01/21/2022 1:28:34 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’ve viewed videos along Kensington Avenue in east Philly...What a total mess....


10 posted on 01/21/2022 1:31:03 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Kid Shelleen

If someone is picking up the trash there, it must be a gubmint service


11 posted on 01/21/2022 1:31:03 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Kid Shelleen

What made them think the illegal dumping would abate after it was cleaned up?


12 posted on 01/21/2022 1:31:35 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: hardspunned

They are doing it all wrong. They should have brought in a big Trac Hoe and dug down 30 ft. When filled just cover it up and dig a new hole.


13 posted on 01/21/2022 1:31:47 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Kid Shelleen

An old joke...ask a psychologist how to change a light bulb. Answer- First the bulb must want to change.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 1:33:36 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: All

Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1Kf-1qd6Y


15 posted on 01/21/2022 1:33:38 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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RE:illegal dumping now a sport in cities....

I never heard that. I always learn something new here.

Since Alice’s Restaurant I thought the intrepid cops could identify the culprits using clues from the trash.

Maybe some food delivery clamshell still has the delivery slip stuck to the bag or one type of cigars used for blunts every day by a guy down the street and store people remember him.


16 posted on 01/21/2022 1:34:22 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Kid Shelleen

brotherly love in a dysfunctional family...


17 posted on 01/21/2022 1:34:51 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: rlmorel
When trash appears, review cameras. Get plate numbers or descriptions. Prosecute

This remedy assumes a normal legal system.

18 posted on 01/21/2022 1:35:11 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Seruzawa
I know.

I semi-seriously opined in the past that we should allow our Special Forces to find computer hackers, drop in from the sky, find out what they have done, kill them, cover them in tar, and then hang their bodies in cages at the mouths of harbors like they used to do to pirates in time past. Just as that made piracy drop off, it would make hackers drop off.

You don't need a rocket scientist to figure out three things:

  1. If there is a time or money advantage to dumping waste, waste is going to get dumped.

  2. If dumping is vigorously prosecuted, waste will not get dumped there.

  3. If waste dumping occurs, and it is not prosecuted, it will continue and increase.

19 posted on 01/21/2022 1:36:02 PM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Amish photo.....

I still say the cops should check those oats. Something in them lets those horses take off like sports cars. They always get away.


20 posted on 01/21/2022 1:36:26 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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