Very tinteresting...

Was Prince Albert there as well?

those arrested will be packed into jail like a can of....

Who smelt it, dealt it.

Beastie Boys unavailable for comment.

Fishy waste? Can't they get a flock of bald eagles to clean it up?

Trash-eating stink bags!

I was actually just about to go to Naples for a couple of days, but I just learned yesterday that the whole city is piled high with garbage. I crossed that off my list...

robobular: I was actually just about to go to Naples for a couple of days, but I just learned yesterday that the whole city is piled high with garbage. I crossed that off my list...

The situation looks bad there. My question is, how the hell did that happen? I though europeans were a bit more eco-friendly.

Then in 2009 they will get their Trash Incinerator and will have a whole new set of smells to biatch about!

Mister Tibbs: Then in 2009 they will get their Trash Incinerator and will have a whole new set of smells to biatch about!

No, they'll just throw the blob of trash into space, hoping that the thing will float away. It'll not return in a while.

If there are Muslims in the crowd, I think we should bomb them.

I've been herring a lot about this lately.

...but when it does return... *cue scary music*

It would be pretty fitting if the human race was wiped out by their own trash falling back to earth. Hmm.

Mister Tibbs: ...but when it does return... *cue scary music*

It would be pretty fitting if the human race was wiped out by their own trash falling back to earth. Hmm.

We'll just throw a bigger blob at it, and the cycle goes on.

/Don't tell this is obscure!

oh crap I thought I was in that 'on Porpoise' pun thread.

Can't talk now, I'm in the middle of the Finals of the Olympic Hide and Seek, and I... wait, in that trash they're fighting over, it's.. it's... a can of sardines! Of course!

*runs off to Sardinia*

methinks something fishy brews abroad

CygnusDarius: robobular: I was actually just about to go to Naples for a couple of days, but I just learned yesterday that the whole city is piled high with garbage. I crossed that off my list...

The situation looks bad there. My question is, how the hell did that happen? I though europeans were a bit more eco-friendly.

This is what I got from other sources:

The Camorra (the local mafia) are making lot of money from the current situation by disposing of the waste illegally and also shipping in waste form elsewhere and hiding it in the landfills. They sabotaged previous efforts to build incinerators to maintain the status quo so the city has had to rely on landfills. However, they couldn't build any more due to the "not in my backyard" attitude from locals and, eventually, the landfills ran out of space and the city overflowed with garbage that had nowhere else to go.

Apparently, the Camorra pretty much own the local government so it's going to take national action to get anything done about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7182979.stm

HairBolus: capitol

cap·i·tal
-noun
1.the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, state, etc.: Tokyo is the capital of Japan.

Cap·i·tol
-noun
1.the building in Washington, D.C., used by the Congress of the U.S. for its sessions.
2.(often lowercase) a building occupied by a state legislature.


/FAIL
//nice try though

These are some cod-awful puns. I suppose I'll make a couple just for the halibut...

The great trash avalanche of 2008?

Plan C: Ship the trash north, cover it with snow, and let people ski down it.

Works until global warming takes over and cooks us all. But then trash piles wont matter :)

How many fish-pun threads are allowed per day on Fark?

And are they dolphin-safe?

I'm just posting for the halibut.

Mahi Mahi, the pun makers are out in force. I smelt this thread coming.

CygnusDarius: robobular: The situation looks bad there. My question is, how the hell did that happen? I though europeans were a bit more eco-friendly.

Although Italy is part of the EU, I get the impression that services in southern Italy are not yet as efficient and corruption-free as in, say, Germany or Luxembourg. If that's a stereotype that has outlived its usefulness, please correct me.

CygnusDarius: The situation looks bad there. My question is, how the hell did that happen? I though europeans were a bit more eco-friendly.

SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE MASHERS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL, DO YOU COPY?!

SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE MASHERS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL!!!

/Huh?

I'm in Naples (actually Pozzuoli) right now. There was a two week period this summer when trash was being picked up, and some areas are getting theirs picked up, but not here. Residents drive out to areas where somebody has chucked out a bag and suddenly hundreds, then thousands pile up. Then it rains and all the puddles are not rain water but trash effluent. Even on the infrequent occasion when an area does get picked up, it's never cleaned up 100% and the dumping starts immediatly afterwards.

Here's are a few current (today) views of Pozzuoli. It's the same around most, not all, of Campania (Naples region).

robobular, don't let the trash dissuade you from coming to Naples. Let the stupid, inconsiderate drivers, the foul, smoke-choked air, the dying palm trees, the volcano about to erupt, and the soggy, one-note pizza that they're so inexplicably proud of dissuade you from coming to Naples.

/maybe it's just me . . .