Friday 25 May 2007
Rubbish
It's hard to pick out the most depressing aspect of this story from The Herald. New teams of litter officers are going to patrol the streets of Glasgow telling people to pick up their rubbish or giving them £50 fines. It's sad enough that we are now such a nation of slobs that tax revenue has to be spent employing people to tell us to tidy up but this story has an extra twist. The litter patrol people are going to be wearing stab vests to protect them from knife attack. How have we got to the point where litter patrols need stab vests?
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In a word: yes.
In Middlesbrough (my own home town, though I'm now an exile) of course, they went one step further and removed the direct human intervention, choosing instead to have someone sitting next to a CCTV camera waiting so that anyone dropping litter can be assailed by what amounts to the Voice of God commanding them to Pick It Up.
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