Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
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Lift with your back kid! One of the best photos in the history of garbage photography.[/caption]
The magic of Christmas isn't really visible from the alleys. It's pretty much buried under the mountains of holiday-related garbage.
It would be bad enough without the horde of dumpster divers who have galloped into Fairview -- mostly from the steppes of the Downtown Eastside -- to sift the trash with a fine tooth comb to find all the imagined treasure the "day after."
I encountered a few in the evening preparing to work the "night shift."
Where some night shift workers will fortify themselves with coffee, all three of the intrepid lads I saw were sped up like a recording by Alvin and the Chipmunks -- all the better to be able to spend three hours getting to the bottom of whatever might be in a big old dumpster.
Normally this could be chalked up to the fact that Fairview's dumpsters mostly stay unlocked while downtown they are kept locked by law. But today? I can't believe the dumpsters in the downtown West End neighbourhood would be any less full than in Fairview, where they couldn't lock them if they wanted to.
So anyway, all the dumpsters I saw on Boxing Day were either overflowing with garbage or they looked like they erupted, spraying their contents far and wide.
Oh the crows will have a field day tomorrow morning! As will the garbage pickup trucks. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Disappointing scene. Mostly because it doesn't photograph as badly as it looks in person.[/caption]
Lift with your back kid! One of the best photos in the history of garbage photography.[/caption]The magic of Christmas isn't really visible from the alleys. It's pretty much buried under the mountains of holiday-related garbage.
It would be bad enough without the horde of dumpster divers who have galloped into Fairview -- mostly from the steppes of the Downtown Eastside -- to sift the trash with a fine tooth comb to find all the imagined treasure the "day after."
I encountered a few in the evening preparing to work the "night shift."
Where some night shift workers will fortify themselves with coffee, all three of the intrepid lads I saw were sped up like a recording by Alvin and the Chipmunks -- all the better to be able to spend three hours getting to the bottom of whatever might be in a big old dumpster.
Normally this could be chalked up to the fact that Fairview's dumpsters mostly stay unlocked while downtown they are kept locked by law. But today? I can't believe the dumpsters in the downtown West End neighbourhood would be any less full than in Fairview, where they couldn't lock them if they wanted to.
So anyway, all the dumpsters I saw on Boxing Day were either overflowing with garbage or they looked like they erupted, spraying their contents far and wide.
Oh the crows will have a field day tomorrow morning! As will the garbage pickup trucks. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Disappointing scene. Mostly because it doesn't photograph as badly as it looks in person.[/caption]
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Two sides of someone who may be going to pieces.[/caption]
On the street most love is tough love so I feel for the person who made this sign, but I'm also wondering if they're taking their meds.
This ratty piece of ripped cardboard was in a business' doorway just on the southwest side of Broadway and Granville. It may or may not have featured in someone's attempt to panhandle. Another homeless person pointed it out to me. Yet another homie who saw it declared, "They're losing it!"
Maybe, but it does at least seem to me that this person is trying to work through some anger management-type issues. The important thing is that they're trying.
Two sides of someone who may be going to pieces.[/caption]
On the street most love is tough love so I feel for the person who made this sign, but I'm also wondering if they're taking their meds.
This ratty piece of ripped cardboard was in a business' doorway just on the southwest side of Broadway and Granville. It may or may not have featured in someone's attempt to panhandle. Another homeless person pointed it out to me. Yet another homie who saw it declared, "They're losing it!"
Maybe, but it does at least seem to me that this person is trying to work through some anger management-type issues. The important thing is that they're trying.
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