Olympic Hospitality of Utahn Proportions.
tom | 13.02.2002 02:27
See the photo to understand how Cordial the Salt Lake City Corporation is as it welcomes the world to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
Olympic Hospitality of Utahn Proportions.
As a lifetime resident of Salt Lake Valley, I was surprised while strolling thru downtown Salt Lake City, to find that the usual waste receptacles, or garbage cans, had either been removed or covered.
I thought it was strange, and still wonder what the idea is, of covering up a garbage can holder with a sheet of plywood, locked down so no one can throw their trash away.
Is this how Salt Lake City welcomes the World? By giving the message that they want you to stuff your empty coffee cup into your pocket, or throw it down on the sidewalk?
I am really sad that the officials of the Salt Lake City Corporation opted for this method of not dealing with the needs of large crowds of people. Look at the picture, it was taken at the light rail station that functions as the main hub for people using light rail to get uptown during the olympics. Notice the garbage sitting on top of the sheet of plywood, and take my word for it, there was and is litter all over the streets and sidewalks of Salt Lake City Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
Its really sad....
I thought it was strange, and still wonder what the idea is, of covering up a garbage can holder with a sheet of plywood, locked down so no one can throw their trash away.
Is this how Salt Lake City welcomes the World? By giving the message that they want you to stuff your empty coffee cup into your pocket, or throw it down on the sidewalk?
I am really sad that the officials of the Salt Lake City Corporation opted for this method of not dealing with the needs of large crowds of people. Look at the picture, it was taken at the light rail station that functions as the main hub for people using light rail to get uptown during the olympics. Notice the garbage sitting on top of the sheet of plywood, and take my word for it, there was and is litter all over the streets and sidewalks of Salt Lake City Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
Its really sad....
tom
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hahahahaha
13.02.2002 04:04
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Are you serious....?
13.02.2002 08:57
I'll tell you what's sad: The Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City has been given a security budget of $300 million - that's approximately $125,000 per athlete. Sixty different agencies, including local police, the fire department, state department of health, the FBI and secret service, are involved. A insane case of over-kill aimed to reinforce America's fixation on protecting itself from some invisible, undefined enemy while the real enemy gets on with the business of global domination.
The US government proposes to spend more than $20 billion a year to fight terrorism. The same amount the World Health Organisation estimates it would take to end world hunger. 30,000 children die every day from starvation and preventable disease. Does that put your litter problem into some kind of perspective?
cam
It is security
13.02.2002 09:59
Comrade M
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Come on folks...
13.02.2002 18:33
Terrorism is something that the state chooses to make everyone aware of with removing the bins type of measures. The effect is to make people live with an edge of fear. We have reached a ludicrous state where the bins are seen as the hazards, not the one tonne lethal tin boxes that litter the highway, trashing the planet in the process.
I think that blocking bins like this is important, as well as totally stupid, and all valid for the newswire.
If somebody was killed by a pointless tin box recking the planet as it trundles down the highway emitting the most poisonous toxins known to mankind, this will cost a life and two million quid to cover inquest costs and emergency services.
dumpster boy
TERRORIST
13.02.2002 20:19
fd