What is it now! A riot? A traffic accident? Shoppers trying to get a good deal? Nope. Its poor sanitation services:
Residents who wake up to stinking rubbish outside their doors every Friday have welcomed council plans to tackle the mess.
Each week rubbish bags in the Park District in Weymouth are picked open by seagulls and litter is seen strewn across the streets after the binmen have visited.
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Judith Sadler, of Hardwick Street, said it is worse in summer.
She said: “One day it looked like Beirut after a bomb had hit. It stank.
I’m just curious – would the image she is trying to portray have been any different if she simply said “One day it looked like a bomb had hit”? Honestly, why the “looks like Beirut” comment? Do you really want a certificate? Well, here it is.
Awesome!
Keep giving those awards Jad! 🙂
Thanks! If you do come across any such articles, do let me know – there’s a lot of work out to rid the world of the cliche.
‘Funny’ thing is, it does look like Beirut, or at least like (many parts of) Lebanon, what will all the garbage. Bet she doesn’t know that. It just doesn’t look like a bomb went off!
(And to illustrate my previous comment… http://jamalghosn.blogspot.com/2010/07/if-you-look-closely.html)
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Thanks for the illustration – it proves your point well.