City Council has been using North Woodside as a free-for-all dumping-ground, for all of society’s problems for decades. (See: young offenders, mental patients, single mothers, and low-income housing). The results are now painfully obvious. Our Royal Bank branch is now a Dollar Store. Our Sobeys is now an empty hole. And the neighbourhood is starting to look a lot like Flint, Michigan. —Wake Up!
This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2013.
We in South Woodside laugh at you North Woodsiders. hahahahaha
South Woodside back at ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN95P3R2IqQ
From North Woodside. BWHAAA…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6VGyR7LJvc
PUNKY!
You made me spit my drink out all over my monitor! haha
punky’s whip
Are you friend or foe?
That feels like the equivalent of a horses head being left in my bed.
Punky Your just GD Creepy.
Ah yes, the joys of social engineering. Meant to uplift the general populace, it invariably does the exact opposite.
The “level playing field” does not take long to become littered with smashed car window glass, used syringes, empty cans of malt liquor and yellow crime scene tape.
Even the lower middle class would opt for gated communities, if they could afford it.
I’ll have a talk with Punky if you want Crock. Make “an offer they can’t refuse”. Maybe myself and a few machine gun toting buddies will ambush him at the bridge tolls.
Lol, “Woodside”… Even sounds like the perfect place to store societies trash. On the bright side, you will probably shave off at least 10-15 years of your life by living that close to the refinery. You can probably double that if you take up smoking “Indian smokes” and have a diet that consists of coachman wieners and potato chips.
Take that, RRSP’s. We don’t need you in Woodside, ya herr!!!
WE’RE getting a Starbucks,North Woodside is moving up in the world.
Reg Thanks for the offer.No one has ever offered to hurt a persona, in my defense. 🙂 🙂
BTW Reg I can’t stand being too far away from “N. Woodside”. 😛
Woodside, in general, is a hole.
I’d live in box on Spring Garden before I’d live in Woodside. *shudder*
ctv 6pm news had a bit on garbage/litter problem at a low income housing developement. some residents complaining that they were being treated like second class citizens and that ‘someone’ should do something about it. they interviewed the garbage truck guy, and he said rightfully that all they take it the big/bagged stuff. if stuff is strewn about it’s up to the resident to clean it up.and that is anywhere. if you live in some fancy ass high rise with concierge, it will be the condo staff you pay for who picks it up. if you live in a standalone house, you pick it up. if the crows or raccoons get into my garbage, i pick it up. if random litter blows into my yard, i pick it up and i don’t start bleating that ‘someone’ oughta do something about it. if you live in multi family place and some people are pigs then you are stuck with having to clean up after them, or live with it. get one of those grabby things, or a stick with a nail at the end, and pick that shit up. and people are less likely to toss litter on clean ground. so once you start keeping it clean, it may stay clean (er). and parents, why not take a bag with you when you go to your kids school and pick up some of that plastic dunkems crap plastered to the fences and shrubs. do it as a group so your kid doesn’t get taunted that his parent is a hobo or whatever. it’s not ‘someone’ else’s problem and some chick named karma isn’t going to spank the naughty litterer for you. just do it. ( and yes, i use my old lady grabber stick and pick up litter from the local school yard where i run my dogs sometimes because i don;’t give a hoot if someone sees me and thinks i am nuts)
I saw that story GDM and you are absolutely correct. Being low income doesn’t mean you’ve abrogated your own personal responsibilities. It doesn’t require post secondary education to secure your waste and ensure that it winds up in the proper receptacle. And if litter bothers you – pick it up. I have no problem picking up trash on the grounds of the apartment complex – it gets a bit infuriating to find T!mz cups equidistant between 3 dumpsters no more than 100 yrds apart – but this is my flipping home. I even return shopping carts to Sir Edward Cornwallis Mall, for the same reason. If people want to think I’m nuts – they’re right – but fuck ’em anyhow,
GDM Good for you.
GDM How many syringes have you found at the school?Generally drug addicts don’t care if a child or dog gets pricked with a dirty needle.
i have never found a syringe out here, although i waded thru them in vancouver. condoms are my ewwwwwwwww ucky worst thing to pick up. i hate the thought of little kids thinking its a balloon.
lol, i guess it’s not something that just came with my dotage, in my 30’s i was walking with a friend downtown and spied a nasty weed growing in a city planter. horrified my girlfriend by yanking it out and i could not for the life of me figure out why she was so embarassed.
ivan, i was i was about to suggest those complaining ladies get a group together and have a sociable time cleaning up their home grounds, but you know what would happen next? they would get all self righteous and form a fucking committee and then post rules about litter, and then start video taping offenders and posting it on facebook. or the bitch column, threatening litterers with ‘karma’. litter bugs me, so i pick it up. some people don’t even see it, meh.
I saw that story, Molly. I felt bad for the poor residents that were trying to clean everything up. There’s just too much junk to keep on top of it. There’s no reason in the world for garbage to be strewn around no matter how or where it happens.
It’s like the fucks who keep putting TVs and other useless shit in the landing of the parking garage in my building. They’ve left notices saying “yo take your electronic shit to the recycling depot” but people keep putting their crap out for someone else to deal with. People are lazy.
perhaps my dementia was bad that day, but i don’t remember seeing anything about them trying to clean up themselves. i saw them complaining about the mess, i saw one woman pointing out syringes, counting them. but i didn’t see anyone pick up anything. except the garbage guy. what i was objecting to is their whining about ‘someone outta do something’ instead of just being that someone. and doing it.
Too bad we don’t have more needle exchange programs around HRM. That would help with the dirty needle problem.
My god, I can imagine how bad the drug problem was in Vancouver then.
The superintendent of the building I lived in on Parkland Dr. put up notices threatening people with a $200 fine for electronics left near the BFI bin.
needle exchange is great, but some people still won’t use it. vancouver had/has insite and still people would prefer to shoot up in schoolyards and alleys. the anonymity of it i think. insite was safe, non judgemental, clean, but you still had to walk through that door. i think the admitted heroin users used it, but the people who were still hiding it didn’t. i passed a guy in a mercedes sticking a needle in his arm in an alley one sunny afternoon.
i wonder what the compliance rate is on electronics? if the city/prov would pay a buck out of the price fee for each item, maybe 50 cents for remote controls or phones the cart nomads would be picking them up