If I could, I would participate in the Bay to Breakers next year, I would go as a garbage truck. It would follow behind all the racers, all the way at the end of the crowd and collect all the debris that the supposed earth loving Norther Californians leave behind.
Anyone who has been to this event will tell you it's a lot of fun, the costumes are fantastic, it's very "San Francisco"...blah blah blah. I've yet to hear anyone mention the excess littering and wastefulness that it also represents.
For all the fun it is as a race, Bay to Breakers for the most part is an excuse for people to get drunk, wear little clothing and do stupid things. I followed the crowd down the panhandle for a few blocks and it felt like I was following behind a giant machine spewing all sorts of packaging debris, cans, bottles, food wrapping, chip bags..... all the great things that fill up our landfills and give the packaged food companies billions of $$.
I'd have to recruit a team of friends to help collect all the garbage as we follow the crowd. My guess is that we'd collect a few truck loads of waste.
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