Everybody needs to drop what they're doing right now and go get some bleach

By adamg on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 5:44pm

The barrage of news about bodily fluids continues, this time via a report on NorthEndWaterfront.com about an incident this past Friday at the playground at Christopher Columbus Park, two hours after a father called 911 to report homeless men sleeping in the playground equipment and blood everywhere:

The playground area was teeming with children and mothers. I walked around the equipment and to my horror, at the back side, 2 of the tunnels were smeared with blood, there was a large puddle of urine and feces under the equipment. A little boy was just about to crawl through the tunnel. I yelled at him to stop and then told everyone they had to leave. I waited for the clean up crew, keeping everyone out of the area.

The park department's initial response: Send out a worker with some water and a pine-scented solution.

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Comments

WTF?!

By Homeless McGee on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 6:28pm.

I was pissed (pun intended) when he woke me up

really?

By anon on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:14am.

Does that guy really not know that it's impossible to catch HIV from dried blood? Maybe time to go back to health class...

Ick factor in addition to health issues

By L.J. on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:56am.

I'm thinking he didn't want the kids crawling through urine, feces & blood. Feces = e. coli which is a health issue. Were YOU absent that day in health class?

Doesn't matter.

By baepp on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:15am.

In schools, they teach children to not touch other children who are bleeding -- cuts, scrapes, bloody nose, what have you. Do we really need to explain to children, "Hey, you can be near that stranger's dried blood. But stay away from your best friend when she gets a bloody nose."??