Ed wrote:

> "Reg Blank" <spambin4me@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:bplete$22d9$1@news.typhoon.co.jp...
> > Eric,
> >
> > When the city workers clear out the homeless in your town, do the
> > homeless get moved to another place? Glad to hear that at least the
> > elderly couple could stay, right?
> >
> > A homeless man used to sleep on the lone bench in my neighborhood
> > playground.  He only came to the playground after dark to sleep.  He
> > disappears to somewhere during the day.
> >
> > After a while...
> >
> > The city workers came and REMOVED THE ONLY BENCH IN THE PLAYGROUND.
>
> I remember when my daughter was just a baby. I took her to the local park
> and noticed that the sandbox was filled with garbage. Being a good father
> and neighbor, I took all the beer cans, old blankets, and various assorted
> garbage in and around the sand box and put it in the park garbage can.
>
> The next day, the garbage can was gone. It was obvious what happened.
> Somebody didn't want the garbage can being filled with garbage so they got
> rid of the garbage can.
>
> fucking nips!

Sounds like the Nagano Winter Olympics way of preventing litter and waste.

Did it actually work?