Yeah, it's the tourists' fault.
Lots of photos at link. This is a job for Mike Rowe.
Posted on 01/06/2016 4:47:54 PM PST by bgill
An iconic Parisian canal is being drained for the first time in 15 years and a whole host of bizarre and unexpected objects have already surfaced. The Canal Saint-Martin is at the heart of the French capital’s 10th arrondissement, one of the city’s most exclusive and fashionable districts. But in recent years the area has developed a reputation for its lively nightlife, and a magnet for tourists and locals alike. Residents blame this surge in popularity as the reason for some of the more bizarre objects that have been discovered lurking in the canal. The last time the three-mile stretch of water was emptied in 2001, among the 40 tons of rubbish were bicycles, motorbikes, gold coins, wheelchairs, a toilet bowl, two First World War shells and even a car.
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Yeah, it's the tourists' fault.
Lots of photos at link. This is a job for Mike Rowe.
No muzzies?
When reality sinks in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diIyLIFgH24&list=PLCB31736350106E1A&index=9
Sure, a lot of tourists dump their shopping carts in the canal when they are done shopping and getting around in Paris is done by grandmother bikes and not cabs!
As a child I lived along a river in southern Wisconsin. There was a bridge 200 yards from our house. One day I anchored the boat just below the bridge to fish. When I pulled up the anchor I found it was attached to a kitchen stove.
The next day I returned with a large magnet. I pulled up bikes, appliances, metal fence posts, wire, metal cabinets...
Don’t they leave a bike all over the place so that any one can use it and then leave it for the next one in need?
Dang it! I’m liking this music and I have no idea what it is!
I don’t see how this costs $10M ,, the canal has locks ,, close the locks ,, drain the swamp ,, run a dozer through there to make nice piles and then scoop with an excavator...
Why would you rent a bike and then throw it in a canal? That just cost you the return deposit. Fools and their money.
I wonder if this is where Aldi learned how to do their shopping cart thingies for a quarter.
Every store I’ve ever gone to in Germany has those coin op shopping carts. I am lazy. So... Somewhere at the A10 Center, South of Berlin, someone has a bunch of washers I got at Bauhaus.
Is the guy in your photo from Notre-Dame?
Hey! There’s that Chamelot-Delvigne Model 1873 I lost in that tragic gondola accident!
I once observed a community lake that was drained after 30 years or so. An area around a pier had about 20 car and motorcycle batteries dumped in the mud. Why would someone acidify a lake in lieu of getting their ‘core deposit’ back?
People who dump batteries in a lake are just showing their “core” values.
I went there one time. I will not return.
Laziness? Core deposit too low to bother?
While it may be possible, I’m a bit doubtful that just 20 batteries could contain enough electrolyte to acidify a lake, even a fairly small one, especially if they were dumped over some period of time.
Betcha they would a few cement shoes if they ever drained the east river in NYC...
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