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Trash Crisis Sparks Health Worries

Nanatsu no Tsuki
20-05-2008, 13:55
Is the Music Capital of the World full of garbage now?!:eek:

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/trash-crisis-sparks-health-worries/20080519161809990001

ROME, Italy (May 19) - The U.S. military in Naples is testing tap water and soil because of health worries from that city's pileup of sometimes smoldering rubbish.

Samples were taken earlier this month from sinks and yards of residences used by Navy and civilian military employees, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Wendy Snyder said Sunday.

The samples were sent to Germany for laboratory analyses, and the results are expected later this month or in early June, Snyder said.

"We just want to take a look at what the potential risks are," Snyder said in a telephone interview.

She said Navy personnel had been anxious about possible health effects, although no link has been found so far to such complaints as rash or itchy eyes, Snyder said.

A U.S. Navy Web site advised: "We do not know the short- or long-term health risks associated with living in Naples, Italy."

Tons of garbage is blocking many sidewalks and streets in the center of Naples and its suburbs, forcing residents to sometimes wade through knee-high trash. Angry residents have taken to burning rubbish, knocking over refuse bins and dumping bags of refuse in the countryside.

What do you think must be done with Naples's garbage problem?
Khadgar
20-05-2008, 14:00
What do you think must be done with Naples's garbage problem?

Carpet bombing with thermite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite#Military_uses).
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 14:15
Is the Music Capital of the World full of garbage now?!
Has been for at least a year now.
What do you think must be done with Naples's garbage problem?
Eh, napalming the streets and clusterbombing the Camorra, before getting someone capable in to run the bloody place would be pretty easy to do, also effective.
Muravyets
20-05-2008, 14:19
This is still going on?! :eek:

That takes a special kind of bull-headed, and with people who let a situation get so bad, I'm not sure what can be done short of military action. Ye gods, people, there's a limit, really.
greed and death
20-05-2008, 14:22
Move Naples to somewhere where there is no trash.
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 14:23
Move Naples to somewhere where there is not trash.
Thank you once again for your incredibly wise counsel...
Call to power
20-05-2008, 14:28
time to get the garbage working again I'd say

this is getting embarrassing now *sends letter to E.U asking them to write a nasty letter to Italy*
Damor
20-05-2008, 14:28
What do you think must be done with Naples's garbage problem?It's time for a war on trash.
Call to power
20-05-2008, 14:30
It's time for a war on trash.

we can hardly burn the whole city down silly :rolleyes::p
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 14:31
we can hardly burn the whole city down silly :rolleyes::p
I dunno, wouldn't lose all that much if we gave them a week to run off :p
Nanatsu no Tsuki
20-05-2008, 14:40
Carpet bombing with thermite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite#Military_uses).

Wouldn't that do more harm than good?
Khadgar
20-05-2008, 14:43
Wouldn't that do more harm than good?

Probably.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
20-05-2008, 14:45
Probably.

Then the suggestion was a completely unfounded, dearie.
greed and death
20-05-2008, 14:46
Thank you once again for your incredibly wise counsel...

hey it worked for spring fiend it can work for Naples. you can even use where Naples was as a trash dump for years to come.
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2008, 14:49
Yay composting! Someday, Naples will be the most fertile place on Earth! :)
Nanatsu no Tsuki
20-05-2008, 14:51
hey it worked for spring fiend it can work for Naples. you can even use where Naples was as a trash dump for years to come.

http://www.themadhat.com/images/vader-fail.jpg
Khadgar
20-05-2008, 15:04
Then the suggestion was a completely unfounded, dearie.

You might want to look up the concept of Facetious.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
20-05-2008, 15:14
You might want to look up the concept of Facetious.

You might find it extremely helping to understand the concept of useful debate.
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 16:20
Yay composting! Someday, Naples will be the most fertile place on Earth! :)
Eh, it's already quite fertile, being next to a volcano and all.
Farflorin
20-05-2008, 16:22
Simple solution: make a trash ball (http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Encyc-56-Garbage_Ball/) and fire it up into orbit.
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 16:24
Simple solution: make a trash ball (http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Encyc-56-Garbage_Ball/) and fire it up into orbit.
Eh, a space elevator would be nice. Would also make nuclear power Actually Viable and all that.
Rambhutan
20-05-2008, 16:32
Couldn't they just use Vesuvius as an incinerator?
Khadgar
20-05-2008, 16:44
You might find it extremely helping to understand the concept of useful debate.

Well there's been so much of it in this thread I find it amusing you opted to call me out on it. Is this because I once mocked your Geocities "source"?
Nanatsu no Tsuki
20-05-2008, 17:10
Well there's been so much of it in this thread I find it amusing you opted to call me out on it. Is this because I once mocked your Geocities "source"?

Hahaha! I didn't even remember that. Must be you're not important enough for me to recall.