Constance Nompelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
In my neighborhood, people throw trash,. . . I know some people who literally told me that they feel it's not so bad to litter or whatever if the place already seems dirty. Maybe this is the key. I don't know though, because I pick up the trash on my corner regularly. . . .< They do it in my neighborhood too. I don't understand why; and the trashers are both residents and those who come here to sell things on the corners. Clinton Collins wrote a piece in *The Rake* about it; he doesn't understand it either and gets pretty angry when he sees people doing it. http://www.rakemag.com/columns/detail.asp?catID=50&itemID=294 What I do, both at my home, and the place where I work (also in this neighborhood) is to try to create an island of clean. I not only pick up the trash around my house and the business, but also pick it up at least two houses and one business on either side of mine. It works some; there's still trash, but it seems not as much right here. I do agree that when people see trash, they think less of adding more. But you can also sit in a clean fast food parking lot and watch drive-through patrons toss out all the wrappers they don't need. (Constance again) >Some of you may remember me complaining a couple of years ago about how I planted three baby apple trees on my boulevard, and two of them were literally ripped out of the ground and thrashed to death. Well we still have the third, but it's a sad sight. Someone has actually been snapping branches off, one at a time, all summer so that now it is a little stump with one piddly branch remaining. < Oddly, people in bad neighborhoods will often respect an attempt by someone to "make it nice" by planting things. But there are always the ones who just can't stop destroying things. I suspect these (few, I think) individuals probably torture cats or other animals--they're sociopaths. Your trees might be being destroyed by just one person who passes daily. --M. G. Stinnett Jordan Neighborhood TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
