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 Every year, the city organizes removal of large items that people would like to throw out. Every year, they very carefully explain which items will be picked up and which won’t. They also go into quite a bit of detail explaining, for example, what is the appropriate size that you have to cut your old carpets to in order to have them removed from the sidewalk. This is a free service. And every year the same thing happens. People take out things that the city explicitly identified as those they will not pick up. That’s how this bizarre game of chicken begins. The city refuses to pick up the trash, and the residents refuse to clean it up. It’s been a week now and this pile, and many others like it, is still littering South End streets. Apparently, one year the city tried to impose fines on those property owners who did not clean up, but they found out that they could not collect much of anything. A lot of it was on the sidewalk – therefore a city responsibility – and many residents claimed that the garbage was not theirs, but belonged to somebody who decided to dump it in front of their house. Another thing that inevitably happens during this spring clean up, is the scavenger hunt the night before pick up. Proving the old adage that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, people roam the neighbourhood picking up bits and pieces of furniture and appliances left on the sidewalks. | |
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