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Thursday, June 02, 2005


Maybe not WMD, but definitely a dirty bomb.
Roadside litter comes in all shapes and sizes — from dirty diapers to syringes — but there's one category that out-grosses the rest: trucker bombs.

They are trucker bombs, plastic jugs full of urine tossed by truckers, and even non-truckers, who refuse to make a proper potty stop to relieve themselves.

The state hasn't counted how many such jugs are found each year, but a single, small county decided to do its own tally. "In one year," Warfield says, "one crew found 2,666 bottles of urine, 67 feces covered items, not including diapers, and 18 syringes."
That's a lot of dung! Not that I know anyone that would ever take a leak in a jug, but jeez. Imagine being next to the mowing crew when they hit 8 pounds of tinkle.

And what a lovely picture, too:


Gotta love this picture, too:




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