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Golden Gate Park pot party a major mess [San Francisco]
www.sfgate.com ^ | Sunday, April 21, 2013 | Victoria Colliver

Posted on 04/22/2013 6:05:45 AM PDT by Lonely Bull

San Francisco park workers and volunteers spent much of Sunday picking up and hauling away 10,000 pounds of garbage strewn all over the eastern part of Golden Gate Park known as Hippie Hill, the remnants of Saturday's annual yet unofficial pot-smoking bacchanalia.

But this year's annual celebration - which falls each year on April 20 and is known as "420" - drew a larger-than-average crowd of between 10,000 and 15,000 revelers on the warm weekend day. They proceeded to smoke, drink, eat and rack up more than $10,000 in costs for city crews to clean up the mess, ironically just before Earth Day.

Even by early Sunday afternoon, mounds of empty bags of chips, candy wrappers, snack containers, plastic cups, bottles and other debris still remained to be picked up, the fallout of what appeared to an enormous, collective case of the munchies.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
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1 posted on 04/22/2013 6:05:45 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Lonely Bull

I’ve been to music festivals lately, non-accustic - they use compostable cups, plates, forks etc and do not sell water in plastic bottles. The last one I went to was left pristine. These stoners are horrible. In other words, the 20 and 30 somethings do know how to behave as a group but there are always the bad eggs.


2 posted on 04/22/2013 6:09:35 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Lonely Bull

They are too busy celebrating “Earth Day” to be bothered with cleaning up after themselves.


3 posted on 04/22/2013 6:10:27 AM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: Lonely Bull
"There was so much garbage, you'd swear we'd just had Woodstock," he said.

So, like normal, liberals make a mess of things. After nearly 50 years, still nothing has changed.

4 posted on 04/22/2013 6:12:59 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Lonely Bull

obama voters


5 posted on 04/22/2013 6:13:51 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Lonely Bull

Gaia is not amused.


6 posted on 04/22/2013 6:15:35 AM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: Lonely Bull
Liberals just redistributing their trash, that's all. They apparently believe those city workers are their slaves.
7 posted on 04/22/2013 6:19:13 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Lonely Bull

You mean Lefty dopers don’t clean after themselves ? Far out, man.


8 posted on 04/22/2013 6:20:17 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: left that other site

Shocked I tell ya. Simply shocked. What will mama erf think of them now? I’m kinda thinkin’ that when man has run his course on the erf, she’ll just shake it off like a wet dog and keep wandering around the sun like we were never here. That reminds me. Gotta back the cars out of the garage and crank em up to idle in the driveway for a few hours. Proud to be increasing my carbon footprint to make up for the lights out crowd.


9 posted on 04/22/2013 6:20:24 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Lonely Bull

fags and drags


10 posted on 04/22/2013 6:20:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rktman

I will turn on my BIG amp, play my Les Paul Real Loud, and then go for a ride on my Harley.


11 posted on 04/22/2013 6:25:08 AM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: CrappieLuck

They are too busy celebrating “Earth Day” to be bothered with cleaning up after themselves.

Dirty smelly hippies are always dirty and smelly and never clean up after themselves!!!!


12 posted on 04/22/2013 6:30:40 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Lonely Bull

No way - 10 to 15 thousand pot heads got together in a park for smoking and drinking and they left a mess...Oh my God who would have seen that coming...I mean, aren’t these the MOST responsible among us. They can smoke pot, hold jobs, and raise families...they aren’t hurting anybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo


13 posted on 04/22/2013 6:31:38 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Lonely Bull

In San Francisco it’s legal to urinate and crap in the streets and to dash down Castro nude with a carrot shoved up your ass.

Another decade, or less, and this decaying city on the Bay will be a no-man’s land excepting, that is, for the romantic cable cars. They’ll still be running with homosexual passengers pickin’ and grinnin’.


14 posted on 04/22/2013 6:34:26 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Lonely Bull

I was at the first Gathering of Eagles in DC, where they were on one side of the fence and we were on the other. When it was over, the Lefty’s side was a sea of trash, and ours was tidy to the degree that it had obviously been a point of pride.

I’ve seen the same thing many times since.

If you wander into DC and see an event going on and don’t know what kind of people are there, just look at the ground when they’re done.


15 posted on 04/22/2013 6:43:08 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: IbJensen

Or the quality of the folks who ride the FART (Fey Area Rapid Transit)...


16 posted on 04/22/2013 6:44:12 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: left that other site

Roger that. Turn all my amps to 11 and plug in my ‘82 blackout Strat in one, my Donahue Tele in one and my ‘65 Epiphone Riviera in the other one. Leave the Hemi Ram runnin’ in the driveway for a while and take extra time at the red lights when we go out for the day. Turn on both ovens to the “self clean” mode which takes about 5 hours and just have a wonderful fossil fuel day. Woo Hoo! Go dino!


17 posted on 04/22/2013 6:44:38 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Lonely Bull

April 20 = Hitlers birthday


18 posted on 04/22/2013 6:49:51 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rktman

Those are some nice axes, Bro!

Mine is a first edition Robot.

Hell, it’s GREEN, so gaia will LOVE it!

Ebony Fretboard, Mother of pearl inlays, and just MAYBE the Nut is IVORY! LOL!

My Harley is over 20 years old, and has straight pipes!

Vrooooooommmm!

You got TWO ovens? Do you make a lot of Pizza????(With Bacon on it?)


19 posted on 04/22/2013 6:57:05 AM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: rktman; left that other site

My contribution: take the Miata for a long, spirited drive through the hills, then come home and plug my PRS into my Hot Rod Deluxe and crank it up to 12 (yes, 12)! And if I can find one, I’ll feast on a rotisseried spotted owl.


20 posted on 04/22/2013 7:00:32 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some people take there grammar way to seriously.)
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