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To: Barney who wrote (14243)	5/2/2000 4:37:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62562

And you all thought it was over......... Waste floating around world on barge since 1986 now in Florida FORT PIERCE, Florida, May 02, 2000 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX) -- Some 14 years after the original shipment of incinerator ash left Philadelphia, then was rejected by port after port, 2,000 tons (1,820 metric tons) of the waste has ended up in barges along the Florida coast. Laboratory tests showed the ash is not hazardous waste, Kris McFadden of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday. However, there was still no definite word where the ash would end up. Florida counties are refusing to transport the ash to their landfills. The story began in 1985, when Philadelphia was searching for a place to put ash from an incinerator in the city. More than 14,000 tons (12,740 metric tons) were loaded onto a bulk-cargo ship, the Khian Sea, which in late 1986 began its ill-fated voyage. For more than two years, the ship sailed the Caribbean searching for a dump site. Crew members reported being turned away from ports at gunpoint and being threatened with attack by environmentalists, who maintained the ash contained toxic heavy metals. The Bahamas, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guinea-Bissau and the Netherlands Antilles all refused the ash. In December 1987, the ship's crew unloaded nearly 4,000 tons (3,640 metric tons) of the ash near Haiti's port of Gonaives. The ship's captain later testified that he was ordered to dump the remaining 10,000 tons (9,100 metric tons) into the Atlantic and Indian oceans. In 1998, the 4,000 tons (3,640 metric tons) of ash in Haiti was ordered removed. There was no immediate explanation as to where it has been since then or what happened to the remaining 2,000 tons (1,820 metric tons). On Monday, five barges loaded with the waste sat in Florida's Intracoastal Waterway -- two at Fort Pierce and three at Stuart. McFadden said Tuesday the material was being transferred from the open barges to a ship with covered cargo compartments. Waste Management Inc. is attempting find a home for the incinerator waste somewhere in the Southeast, said company spokesman Bill Plunkett in Houston. The ash likely won't be dumped in Florida, he said. A disposal facility in Carlyss, Louisiana, is a possibility. ``From our perspective, it's material that can be handled fairly easily, '' Plunkett said. ``It's been tested and determined to be non-hazardous, but we want to handle it in a way that is safe for the environment and that's what we intend to do.'' -0- By KARIN MEADOWS (PROFILE (WS SL:BC-Carib-US-Globe-Trotting Ash; CT:i; (REG:CRB;) (REG:ENGL;) (LANG:ENGLISH;)) ) * end of story *

To: Barney who wrote (14243)	5/2/2000 4:39:00 PM
From: Tony McFadden	Respond to of 62562

So... That would make me McTomasy, the first Irish jedi [took out the 'F'] T.

To: Barney who wrote (14243)	5/2/2000 5:06:00 PM
From: Peter S. Maroulis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62562

The Snake and the Bunny One morning a blind bunny was hopping down the bunny trail, and he tripped over a large snake and fell, KerPlop! Right on his twitchy little nose. "Oh, please excuse me!" said the ever-so-polite bunny. "I didn't mean to trip over you, but I'm blind and couldn't see." "That's perfectly all right," replied the snake. "To be sure, it was MY fault. I didn't mean to trip you, but I'm blind too, and I didn't see you coming. By the way, what kind of animal are you?" "Well, I really don't know," said the bunny. "I'm blind, and I've never seen myself. Maybe you could examine me and find out." So the snake felt the bunny all over, and he said, "Well, you're soft, and cuddly, and you have long silky ears, and a little fluffy tail, and a dear twitchy little nose; YOU must be a BUNNY RABBIT!" And the little blind bunny was so pleased he danced with joy. Then he said, "I can't thank you enough, but, by the way, WHAT kind of animal are YOU?" And the snake replied that he didn't know, and the bunny agreed to examine HIM, and when he was finished, the snake said, "Well, what kind of an animal am I?" "You're hard, you're cold, you're slimy, and you haven't got any balls... YOU MUST BE A LAWYER."