At least divers are stepping up to help the environment in a tangible way. Which is a lot more common than most other sports (if not all). The divers here deserve the Hero tag.

/diver, who has helped out with illegal fish traps
//is part of Project Aware
// . o 0 BUBBLES!

I would find it kinda creepy to find a child's Batman costume.

strangeguitar: I would find it kinda creepy to find a child's Batman costume.

Yeah, maybe the cops should take a look to see if any missing kids were last seen wearing a Batman costume.

I've been participating in coastal cleanups for years. We always find strange things.

I once pulled a relativly new microwave out of a freighter that sank in the early 60's.

I will never figure out how it got there.

bobug: At least divers are stepping up to help the environment in a tangible way. Which is a lot more common than most other sports (if not all). The divers here deserve the Hero tag.

Many hunters' groups and fishermen kick ass, too, at nature conservation. And of course you have your usual band of hikers, mountain bikers, cyclotourists, and kayakers and canoers who are cool and do not shiat all over the place.

As always, there is a tangible douchebag factor that ruin it for everyone in all the sports who are the ones we all end up cleaning up after. :(

soze: And of course you have your usual band of hikers, mountain bikers, cyclotourists, and kayakers and canoers who are cool and do not shiat all over the place.

This really is one of those "a few bad apples" cases. Most other outdoors folk not only treat the land with respect, but go out of their way to tidy it up. Problem is they shouldn't have to.

alexanderplatz: Even if you don't want it, someday it comes back.

She better not.

Lou_Dobbs: alexanderplatz: Even if you don't want it, someday it comes back.

She better not.

She show up in about 9 months.

At least the didn't found a dildo.

"There's lots of money in recovering shopping carts"

Wonder if they found any bicycles?

I gotta admit... this event is a very clever idea.

Kudos.

retards were bored I guess.

/like to dive.
//not to look for your trash.

I've pulled a number of shopping carts out of creeks and rivers, so I'm getting you-know-what out of these replies.

/yea... and plenty of dildos, suitcases full of porn and beer cans.

T.M.S.: I once pulled a relativly new microwave out of a freighter that sank in the early 60's.

I will never figure out how it got there.

That blew my mind. Was it plugged in?

T.M.S.: I once pulled a relativly new microwave out of a freighter that sank in the early 60's.

I will never figure out how it got there.

Time travel. Someone microwaved plutonium and transported to the 1960s. The chronometric storm vortex is probably what sunk the ship. All that ambient static electricity can also wreak havoc with electronic guidance.

"We're just finding shopping carts left and right," Calendine said as he emerged from the dark water. "We found an anchor."

Wow that's really weird. An anchor??

and Batman

I've been looking for that asshole, he owes me $10.

"We found an anchor."



/aisle seat

I find it odd that they found lots of either french furniture or pre-indoor plumbing toilets.

hyperspacemonkey: T.M.S.: I once pulled a relativly new microwave out of a freighter that sank in the early 60's.

I will never figure out how it got there.

Time travel. Someone microwaved plutonium and transported to the 1960s. The chronometric storm vortex is probably what sunk the ship. All that ambient static electricity can also wreak havoc with electronic guidance.

haha Sound, technical, and realistic. Fark solves another mystery. What's the total now?

Is it really good for the environment to remove old shopping carts? I thought we intentionally dumped large, hollow, metal things into the water to serve as artificial reefs or somesuch. Little fish like to live in them to hide from big fish or somesuch.

Our local lake has Ronald McDonald's head. We leave it there.

Now if they can only get Tijuana to stop dumping sewage that ends up on Imperial Beach.

does the batman in the water signify christian bales career. Sinking.

Nice TPB reference

sarah connor down there too?

What, no Mexicans?

bobug: At least divers are stepping up to help the environment in a tangible way. Which is a lot more common than most other sports (if not all)...

Diving is not a sport. Stop it with that. People in other sports don't do that because you can't, for example, dodge a tackle and throw a football and pick up trash at the same time. If you can do your sport while also picking up bags of garbage it's probably not a sport. I'm looking at you golf!

/I agree with the hero part though.

I was traveling Australia for seven months and had time to stop and pick up trash. I'd stop at a random place in the outback and just start gathering garbage. It would usually be 200 yards up and back and I would have filled a decent sized garbage bag (or at least had too much weight to go on using it). Granted, no one had ever cleaned up the area but it was a lot of crap considering that I was in the middle of nowhere, often 100 miles from then nearest hamlet of 300 people. Lots of glass bottles, newspapers, and what was saddest, a surprising number of oil bottles & filters (which means people are changing their oil at poorly choosen places).

I had the back end of my car filled up with garbage and stopped at the Barkly roadhouse in outback Queensland (google satellite photo here, zoom out, they're in the middle of nowhere!). I asked if I could dump the trash that had been picked up and if they had an extra bag. The woman returned from the back room and plopped a 25-pack of big bags on the counter and said to me, "Thank you!"

pinguwin: The world needs more people like you. And much less of the people throwing their trash.
I've driven to James Bay, and Happy Valley/Goose Bay and was surprised at some of the stuff I'd see while car-camping. Throw it in your trunk, people.

You'll be surprised what goes to the bottom of the sea.

The ocean isn't a dumping ground.

I agree hero tag is well deserved.

To throw in my two cents...personal pet peeve as a mountain biker is when we get together as a group to clean up and maintain a trail, only to have hikers and equestrians try to get us thrown out because of a few asshats.

Seen plenty of hikers join us on trail work days...never an equestrian though...

meh

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My father use to help clean up a river when he did diving to stay in shape. He pulled up everything, coffee mugs, a glass eye, a corpse you know, what you'd expect to find on the bottom of a river.

Batman is found underwater and Aquaman doesn't do jack to help him out? WEAK!!!

Tritonean: never an equestrian though...

You know, for some reason, I'm not surprised. That's been what others who have done trail maintenance have mentioned.

Haoie, sadly, the ocean is a dumping ground :-(

Korzine: My father use to help clean up a river when he did diving to stay in shape. He pulled up everything, coffee mugs, a glass eye, a corpse ..... you know, what you'd expect to find on the bottom of a river.

FTFY, cuz if not, its creepy that you know I knew him.

bobug: most other sports

water sports?

Next stop for all the trash they collected: a barge bringing trash out to sea to dump it.

Tritonean:

Seen plenty of hikers join us on trail work days...never an equestrian though...

You expect them to get down off their high horse for that?

/got nothin'

lordargent: bobug: most other sports

water sports?

Didn't realize that urinating on people was going to come into play here...

T.M.S.: I once pulled a relativly new microwave out of a freighter that sank in the early 60's.

I will never figure out how it got there.



FTW !

Dammit. I can't find a pic of that scene from the Simpsons Flying Hellfish episode where it shows a Fotomat at the bottom of the lake with "Springfield Class of '82 Rules!" painted on it.

Anyone?

New plan:

We create a submersible with an internet connection and a webpage...

People would log on and spend hours using it to collect debris for points. Hell, we could make it a pay service- YOU pay US to use our sub to collect trash.

"...to me, it's like a gold mine."

/The Cart Boy FTW

"I am the Bat!"