Posted on 04/21/2016 11:41:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
They came. They smoked. They left more than seven tons of trash.
After more than 8,000 people flocked Golden Gate Park on Wednesday, or 4/20, as the San Francisco’s marijuana-loving community call it, countless bottles of Shasta soda, beer cans, Fruit Loops boxes and butts were left scattered across the grassy, green lawn.
"We think we will end up with over 15,000 pounds of trash," San Francisco Recreation and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg said Thursday morning. "Yes, it's impactful to our park."
Ginsburg noted the mess was an improvement from last year. That trashy haul tipped the scales at 17,000 pounds.
Police said the event was mostly peaceful, though one person with a gun was taken into custody. A park employee said the man had pulled a gun and people nearby ran away.
Officers also removed four parents who brought small children to the smoky party, San Francisco police said.
The unsanctioned event has no permit and no event organizer, but even so, the city sends park crews out to clean up the mess at the taxpayer's expense.
"I really don't like it," said a 4/20 attendee named "Kourtney," who didn't look like he was cleaning up much trash himself.
Ginsburg said his employees would probably rather doing something else on a Thursday morning. But he noted it was Earth Day and that his crews were doing important work. The cleanup began at 6 a.m., he said, and would likely take a few hours.
That’s a lotta pizza boxes.
Human trash always leaves a broad trail.
How ‘bout next year the cops fence off the meadow where this annual disgrace takes place? How ‘bout the cops bust a few heads’ heads? Oh, right. Can’t do that. This is San Francisco, and potheads are heroes just like the LGBT... which means that they’re above the law.
More or less than last year.
That’s the truth!
Expect anything better from hippies?
I love the King of the Hill episode where Hank gets the hippies out of a state park by having the warden shut off services and then gives them all a pep talk about self reliance.
Seems like a good place for wack jobs to test their hand made tie dyed artisenal binary vx.
Of course, all these people REALLY care about the environment.
ROTFLMAO!
Earth Day people at it again?
Was he Italian? I never knew that. I was a kid when those ads were around.
Earth day is always a big trash day too.
Did they recycle their empty Cheetos bags?
Iron Eyes Cody
that’s outstanding
And I can remember before that when it was a pig picking.
I miss back when.
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