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To: JPR who wrote (7626)	10/1/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Apparently, you haven't talked to anybody in India (or just chosen to ignore whatever they say). Just the other day, an Indian was telling me that his city of Bangalore was called the "Garden City", a sobriquet that was probably appropriate in the earlier half of this century. When asked what the city has become now, his answer was quick -- "Garbage City"! And he also went on to add that, in spite of its decline, it is still considered one of the better cities of India!

To: JPR who wrote (7626)	10/1/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Poop Troops on high-alert:"Pooper Scooter" on the move!!!Western civilzation in dire straits. JPR: Since we are on the subject here is something revealing and mildly amusing. Saturday, October 2, 1999 Paris tries ads to fight dog excrement PARIS: After deploying its poop troops, Paris is turning to advertisements in its dogged battle against miscreant mutts that foul its sidewalks. Mayor Jean Tiberi announced Thursday a hard-hitting advertising campaign to discourage dog owners from letting their pets deposit 10 tons of excrement per day on the sidewalks of the French capital, reports Reuters. One short film shows a blind man hanging up his white cane at home after a walk. Dog excrement hangs from the bottom of it, and the announcer says: "You're right not to clean it up, he does it very well for you." Other films in the campaign, due to run most of October with a series of posters, show the health and safety menace the slippery piles present for children and disabled people in wheelchairs. Six hundred people end up in the hospital each year having slipped on it and clean-up costs total $10 million a year. "Paris is the first in France to dare break a taboo...by showing various categories of people -- the blind, the handicapped, children -- for whom the problem has reached such a scale that it is no longer something to laugh about," the city hall said in a statement. The city has struggled in vain for years to keep its sidewalks clean. One of its weapons has been a fleet of "pooper scooters" that are driven around vacuuming up excrement. (EI)