Nothing could have lived on that bottle for as long as it was there, ST.

FWIW, not tooting my own horn, but I always pick shite up regardless of where I am. Always have. Nothing that I came up with, mind you...but my dad used to do it all the time. I learned that trick from him. Takes two seconds to pick something up if you see it in the gutter, on the sidewalk, in the grass. So...no, I don't think it is apathy, rather laziness on the part of most people. Apathy implies indifference on the part of those that see something wrong. I doubt that many, if any of us adults are indifferent. I do believe a great many of us...not all, mind you...are lazy

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Originally posted by Clamato:
So...no, I don't think it is apathy, rather laziness on the part of most people. Apathy implies indifference on the part of those that see something wrong. I doubt that many, if any of us adults are indifferent. I do believe a great many of us...not all, mind you...are lazy

i thought the exact opposite. there are so many joggers, heatlth freaks, etc. in town, it's hard to beleive that they're lazy. in fact, most folks i see seem so type A (using your analogy here) over-the-top NOT lazy. maybe they're just not lazy when it only applies to them. which makes them indifferent to stuff that doesn't, right?

or, maybe they're afraid of germs.

btw, kudos to your dad. what a cool thing to teach your kid. great story too, clam.

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Originally posted by Shore Thing:
Apethetic citzens t.a? Maybe just ones who won't touch something that gross without immediate access to soap and water. Perhaps we should all bring rubber gloves with us when we go downtown so we can help out.

lol. yeah, but aren't you the guy who ran away from the wife-swappin' parties in ohio? that seemed like a sweet deal. was the grems that scared you off there too?

;^p

Beer looks suspiciously like a certain body fluid that men have been know to deposit in bottles when the need arises. You wouldn't catch me touching it.

Why would one pee in a bottle rather than peeing in Prairie Path Park? Seems all too difficult.

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Originally posted by Clamato:
Why would one pee in a bottle rather than peeing in Prairie Path Park? Seems all too difficult.

if you had all day to kill, wouldn't you do it? it sounds like a fun/creative way to kill a few minutes during an otherwise excruciatingly long day in ppp.

I stand corrected.

Don't you mean you'd stand collected?

Never mind.

I was taught by my old man that a man's beer is much like his wife, you just don't touch it.

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Originally posted by Clamato:

I have yet to see anyone urinating in public.

Got you covered on that one. Saw that while driving down Main one evening in the spring.

I've got no real problems with GE's own - although it does seem like these out of towner's are teaching them some horrible lessons, my concerns have always been about the inordinate numbers that are imported and displayed. Even PADS has strict rules prohibiting their imports from even stepping foot on the property within 15 minutes of opening for the night.

Anyone see the recent article on Chicago's homeless downtown? If I remember it correctly it was smaller than GE's homeless totals.

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Originally posted by Clamato:
So why do we have rules if they will not be enforced?

Because every cop maybe thinks that his sole purpose on every shift is to gun down bank robbers, solve murders or engage in high-speed pursuits?

Minor enforcement for the betterment of resident family's quality of life is simply beneath them and their warrior creed.

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Explaining that after the City Council years ago passed a law forbidding the consumption of alcohol in public places, cops spent an inordinate amount of time arresting men on street corners, since "the corner is, was and always will be the poor man's lounge... But somewhere back in the '50s, there was a small moment of goddamn genius by some nameless smokehound who comes out of a cut-rate one day and on his way to the corner, slips that just-bought pint of elderberry into a paper bag. A great moment of civic compromise. That small wrinkled-*** paper bag allowed the corner boys to drink in peace while giving us permission to go do police work."

"So why do we have rules if they will not be enforced?"

Follow the money.

No revenue stream in rousting the homeless.
Traffic enforcement=$$$$

Or take the personal choice route-

Given a choice would you rather give a yummy mummy driving her Land Rover a ticket or question a homeless person with dubious hygiene?

Next question.

Has anyone seen my urine sample bottle? I used to leave a fresh sample every night for a homeless person to use to get a job and pass the drug screen. It used to be by the train station. The procedure was for me to put it in a inconspicuous brown paper bag. Let me know, thanks.

dude, that was a 40 ouncer. . . filled to the top. you really ARE the man, aren't you.

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Originally posted by Dan the Man:
Has anyone seen my urine sample bottle? I used to leave a fresh sample every night for a homeless person to use to get a job and pass the drug screen. It used to be by the train station. The procedure was for me to put it in a inconspicuous brown paper bag. Let me know, thanks.

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Wow - that is taking enabling the to the next level! I am amused and disgusted
at the same time.

Wow. Was I ever duped...by myself or by t.a. superette Either I misinterpreted what t.a. superette had said to me...that he had thrown the 40 ounce malt liquor bottle away (thus ending the experiment), or he is collecting his own data and trying to block Ruydah's and my experiment!

Ruydah got off the train and flagged me down. The bottle is still there! It was never thrown away. After careful study we determined that it was indeed the original bottle that the experiment was based upon. Bitter Boy even witnessed the bottle...in plain sight.

Stay tuned for further developments.

Wow, you should be up there with the greats like BF Skinner and Stanley Milgram.

Indeed Clam...indeed. This event ranks right up there, parallel with the likes of my first born.

Still there. This is kind cool, gives me something to look forward to getting off the train.

Sadly, it turns out that the bottle that Ruydah, Bitter Boy and I saw at the lab was not the original bottle.

t.a. superette called me this evening after a night or two out of town INSISTING that he had indeed thrown the bottle out in the mesh waste basket in front of the old Karen's Corner store. Experiment over. Someone apparently plucked the bottle out of the garbage and replaced it, OR put a new bottle in its place for one reason or another. This has to be the bottle that Ruydah, Bitter Boy and I saw on Thursday. So it seems the experiment has been tainted.