Monday, October 24, 2005

Surprise, surprise

The crew was emptying our green plastic dumpsters into the garbage truck today, and one of the workers reached in, lifted out a clear bag of trash, and dumped out the contents. He reached down, picked up a CD jewel case, inspected it, and threw it back in. The crew then hooked the dumpster to the truck and hoisted it overhead, spilling it empty.

A KBR worker was watching me watch the garbage men, and he said “They’re supposed to check it.”

“Oh yeah” I said, “what for?”

“Hazardous materials, wood, things like that. Yesterday they found two live practice mortar rounds and a clip full of M16 bullets.”

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