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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?
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; democrathellhole; dumping; localnews
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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.
To: Kid Shelleen
Probably those infamous North Philly White Supremacists.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:24:00 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Kid Shelleen
How could they tell the difference there?
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:24:42 PM PST
by
Mouton
(The enemy of the people is the media )
To: Kid Shelleen
I’d say that hanging illegal dumpers would be a workable solution.
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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))
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.
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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.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Probably those infamous North Philly White Supremacists.That would be the people who cleaned up the mess.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:27:50 PM PST
by
Drew68
(Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
To: Jeff Chandler
Heading over to Philly from Lancaster to dump his trash.
To: Kid Shelleen; All
The perpetrators should be arrested, fined, and assigned 40 hours of “community service” cleaning toilets in homeless shelters.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:28:30 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:28:34 PM PST
by
hardspunned
(former GOP globalist stooge)
To: Kid Shelleen
I’ve viewed videos along Kensington Avenue in east Philly...What a total mess....
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:31:03 PM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Kid Shelleen
If someone is picking up the trash there, it must be a gubmint service
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:31:03 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Kid Shelleen
What made them think the illegal dumping would abate after it was cleaned up?
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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)
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.
To: Kid Shelleen
An old joke...ask a psychologist how to change a light bulb. Answer- First the bulb must want to change.
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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.)
To: All
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:33:38 PM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Kid Shelleen
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.
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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)
To: Kid Shelleen
brotherly love in a dysfunctional family...
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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... 😁)
To: rlmorel
When trash appears, review cameras. Get plate numbers or descriptions. ProsecuteThis remedy assumes a normal legal system.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:35:11 PM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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:
- If there is a time or money advantage to dumping waste, waste is going to get dumped.
- If dumping is vigorously prosecuted, waste will not get dumped there.
- If waste dumping occurs, and it is not prosecuted, it will continue and increase.
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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.)
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.
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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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