I am the concerned citizen in question. I came across the tray on Lydon Way after walking my dog, which I do every morning. I take the opportunity while walking my dog to pick up any trash I find on the sidewalk. In this particular case, I was both picking up trash and kicking it into the street, as it was about to be swept by the street-cleaner. It's hard to tell in the photo, but this is a HUGE tray of rice - almost as if it fell out of a buffet line - not a tiny take-out tray. As such, it could not fit the plastic bag I use. Also, as I had my dog in one hand, the too-small bag in the other, and as there were no trash barrels handy (and if there were, I could receive a talking-to for using someone elses trash barrel), and as I had to start getting ready to go to work, and as this area is notorious for people leaving large amounts of garbage uncovered at all times during the day, I felt it was in order to report this to the city, in order that ISD could warn the property owner. Believe me, if I had been in a position to take this tray away I would have.
Perhaps the citizen was concerned it was plastic explosive shaped as rice kernels?
I would like to invite the concerned citizen to join me in a dog walk. The logic of caring for my neighborhood compels me to pick up trash that lies near where my dog deposits her post-kung pow shrimp. My hope is that the concerned citizen would see how easy it really is to pick up trash. Although it would truly be a miracle day if the people who throw refuse onto the street as though neighborhoods were trash cans were to stop.
Dog walkers of UHub: Do you pick up trash that will fit in the doggy bag when you pick up after your dog? I think of this as a service that dog owners can do that benefits their neighborhoods.
My husband and I do lots of clean up on our dog walks. Not only our dog's waste, but also that left by others who are obviously too important to pick up after their companions. (Or who stand at the door and let the dog out to do it's business and then call it back. Yes, we have seen you do that Ms very important neighbor!)
On the Commonwealth Avenue Mall there are volunteer watchdogs for most blocks. These are families who walk their dogs near their homes and pick up trash, report graffiti, report property damage, and are trained to alert the Friends of the Public Garden and the Parks Dept to possible problems with the trees. They have been very effective!
We walked with one gentleman and his dog the other day who brings an extra bag each trip to clean up after litterbugs.
So join in everyone and you don't even have to be a dog person to do it. Just grab a plastic bag and fill it up.
Now I am really glad I asked the question about multi-tasked dog walking and trash collection. I did not know whether other folks did (though to assume that no else does is self-centered of me). But to get responses from people saying that they do take part of cleaning up after others is affirmative.
That does help explain how Back Bay streets manage to stay as unlittered as they are. Given the many people who travel along Comm Ave Mall it really is pretty darn clean.
Some areas of Boston are beautiful beyond measure. Back Bay is one of those areas.
That street is about half modest homes owned by working-class Vietnamese families and about half falling-down threedeckers rented out by slumlords. There seems to be an understandable pattern among a lot of disenfranchised folks in which they're not going to pick up trash, because they didn't put it there, and they're not going to do it out of an obligation to improve their community, because really, what has the community done for them when they're someone for whom school and work didn't go well and the housing they got put into sucks and they can't get child care unless they're working and they can't work because they can't get childcare...
The first time I had the term "You bet!" directed at me, it was by a waitron at the sit-down restaurant at the Seattle airport. Her response to most everything I said was a chirpy "You bet!" WTF? Oh, I get it, I guess...
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Alert Citizen: Concern
Alert Citizen:
Concern regarding rats < interest in picking up rice her/himself.
I'm sure the rat is capable
..of picking up the rice her/himself
I am the concerned citizen in
I am the concerned citizen in question. I came across the tray on Lydon Way after walking my dog, which I do every morning. I take the opportunity while walking my dog to pick up any trash I find on the sidewalk. In this particular case, I was both picking up trash and kicking it into the street, as it was about to be swept by the street-cleaner. It's hard to tell in the photo, but this is a HUGE tray of rice - almost as if it fell out of a buffet line - not a tiny take-out tray. As such, it could not fit the plastic bag I use. Also, as I had my dog in one hand, the too-small bag in the other, and as there were no trash barrels handy (and if there were, I could receive a talking-to for using someone elses trash barrel), and as I had to start getting ready to go to work, and as this area is notorious for people leaving large amounts of garbage uncovered at all times during the day, I felt it was in order to report this to the city, in order that ISD could warn the property owner. Believe me, if I had been in a position to take this tray away I would have.
Rice-A-Plosive?
Perhaps the citizen was concerned it was plastic explosive shaped as rice kernels?
I would like to invite the concerned citizen to join me in a dog walk. The logic of caring for my neighborhood compels me to pick up trash that lies near where my dog deposits her post-kung pow shrimp. My hope is that the concerned citizen would see how easy it really is to pick up trash. Although it would truly be a miracle day if the people who throw refuse onto the street as though neighborhoods were trash cans were to stop.
Dog walkers of UHub: Do you pick up trash that will fit in the doggy bag when you pick up after your dog? I think of this as a service that dog owners can do that benefits their neighborhoods.
Lot's of clean up on our dog walks
My husband and I do lots of clean up on our dog walks. Not only our dog's waste, but also that left by others who are obviously too important to pick up after their companions. (Or who stand at the door and let the dog out to do it's business and then call it back. Yes, we have seen you do that Ms very important neighbor!)
On the Commonwealth Avenue Mall there are volunteer watchdogs for most blocks. These are families who walk their dogs near their homes and pick up trash, report graffiti, report property damage, and are trained to alert the Friends of the Public Garden and the Parks Dept to possible problems with the trees. They have been very effective!
We walked with one gentleman and his dog the other day who brings an extra bag each trip to clean up after litterbugs.
So join in everyone and you don't even have to be a dog person to do it. Just grab a plastic bag and fill it up.
Thank you!
If everyone was as thoughtful a neighbor as you are, this town would sparkle! :) (And they say Bostonians are mean. I wonder by what measure?)
Hooray for the best of Bostonians!
Now I am really glad I asked the question about multi-tasked dog walking and trash collection. I did not know whether other folks did (though to assume that no else does is self-centered of me). But to get responses from people saying that they do take part of cleaning up after others is affirmative.
That does help explain how Back Bay streets manage to stay as unlittered as they are. Given the many people who travel along Comm Ave Mall it really is pretty darn clean.
Some areas of Boston are beautiful beyond measure. Back Bay is one of those areas.
No dog
but I frequently pick up trash.
That street is about half modest homes owned by working-class Vietnamese families and about half falling-down threedeckers rented out by slumlords. There seems to be an understandable pattern among a lot of disenfranchised folks in which they're not going to pick up trash, because they didn't put it there, and they're not going to do it out of an obligation to improve their community, because really, what has the community done for them when they're someone for whom school and work didn't go well and the housing they got put into sucks and they can't get child care unless they're working and they can't work because they can't get childcare...
That's not rice
it is a tray of fly larvae.
status: All set.
Ubiquitous, all-purpose food service term.
All set with that tray of rice?
Yep, all set!
The first time I had the term "You bet!" directed at me, it was by a waitron at the sit-down restaurant at the Seattle airport. Her response to most everything I said was a chirpy "You bet!" WTF? Oh, I get it, I guess...
Now it's everywhere, isn't it? You bet!