not to be a communist about it but if you're finding hypodermic needles in your public trash cans, your gut reaction shouldn't be to get rid of the trash can, it should be "thank god this ended up in a place where , a DPS worker trained in hazardous waste management can handle it, instead of a kid on the street"
because if you remove the trash cans where the needles end up GUESS WHERE YOU'RE GONNA FIND THEM
@wgahnagl and we couldnt just put biohazard boxes next to the public trash. Like it would be sensible to do
@budsofstone literally that's what I'm emailing about like
The cops are like "uhm, there were needles in the trash so we needed to get rid of them :(" like THEN PUT A FUCKING SHARPS CONTAINER ON THE NEW TRASH CAN YOU FUCKING PIG, DO SOMETHING
@wgahnagl i fucking remember in the early 2000s there where multipurpose biohazard cans next to the trash. For anything that could easily spread desease, like diapers, wipes, needles, bloody anything. Condoms should have also gone in there but people didnt.
im glad your reaching out to your city, cause ofcourse the cops want to be able to fine people for littering and arrest people with larger drug charges and fuck the enviro and community safety.
@budsofstone it's literally that
I'm with a direct action org for homeless people and these trash cans were being safely used for years until they started sweeping them out of the downtown area. Now for Some Reason there are no trash cans in the place where we run our meetings and they hang out! And what's the reason? "human feces and needles", very hard things to publicly argue in favor of?? Could this be a step towards enforcing a no-loitering policy in the place where my organization and the homeless people we serve go?? I wonder! :D
it's not like they didn't literally stop and frisk someone at our meeting two weeks ago!
I'm sure there's nothing going on, and hey won't enforce laws for fake crimes that people have no choice but to commit :-)