On 4 Nov 2004 09:30:10 -0800, worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) brought
down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>From Mainichi
>http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20041104p2a00m0dm015000c.html
>
>"SHUNAN, Yamaguchi -- A bear found trapped in a garbage disposal hole
>will be left to die because it is already too weak to save."
>
>Now I can probably guess what a garbage hole is, but I don't know I
>knew you could just throw your garbage into a hole in the ground. Are
>these things official, or was it just something the lady and/or her
>village used? And is that legal, to just throw garbage down a hole in
>the woods?

They're not necessarily in the woods.

Some places (I used to work at one) use a backhoe to dig a pit for
disposing of their own burnable trash. Every so often they burn the
contents.





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Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College