A dilemma, or just stupid?
Dear readers, I need your input and advice.
Yesterday, an email circulated around the Tasteful neighborhood surrounding Chez Vel-DuRay. It seems that one of our citizens saw a hypodermic needle (presumably used) near the bus stop, and spent half the day calling various city and county agencies to try to get them to come pick it up. No one would, and this citizen's outrage was palatable.
I have absolutely no medical training whatsoever. With that said, I do know that hypodermic needles are not attack animals - that is to say, they will not spring out at you and poke you if you threaten them. Therefore, my solution would have been to pick the damn thing up, put it in about forty disposable grocery bags, and throw it out. If I were feeling particularly concerned, I would poke it with a wine cork, so that no one could stick themselves. Yes, that's not the preferred method of disposal, but much better than just leaving it there for someone to happen upon.
Who is right?
Yesterday, an email circulated around the Tasteful neighborhood surrounding Chez Vel-DuRay. It seems that one of our citizens saw a hypodermic needle (presumably used) near the bus stop, and spent half the day calling various city and county agencies to try to get them to come pick it up. No one would, and this citizen's outrage was palatable.
I have absolutely no medical training whatsoever. With that said, I do know that hypodermic needles are not attack animals - that is to say, they will not spring out at you and poke you if you threaten them. Therefore, my solution would have been to pick the damn thing up, put it in about forty disposable grocery bags, and throw it out. If I were feeling particularly concerned, I would poke it with a wine cork, so that no one could stick themselves. Yes, that's not the preferred method of disposal, but much better than just leaving it there for someone to happen upon.
Who is right?
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Tuesday, September 30, 2008
2 Comments:
At 12:54 PM,
Sylvia O'Stayformore said…
Good choice. Put on your Playtex living gloves, use and old cork and dispose of it that way. The junkie wont do it.
At 8:52 PM,
Calpete said…
Ms. Sylvia's right, I think. Put on some gloves, pick the damn thing up, stab it into a cork, and get rid of it. Maybe put a match to it out in the garden and THEN put it into a couple of bags and into the trash. Sheesh.
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