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The only thing missing is the tail. 9th always had a bad rep even in the 80's thanks Joe keep up the heat O.C. needs to address these issues I do not even go there anymore. Only North end.
How dare they not have 24/7 dumpster monitoring!
We have so many in jail and on welfare that could be performing a public service by picking up the trash!
Dave T: Sadly and embarrassingly, humans are the only known species I'm aware of that voluntarily destroys the same environment we depend on to survive. Not very wise for a so called "technological society." We can't even take responsibility for our own waste?
Looks really trashy. Not a good thing to attract tourist or business.
I used to walk the boardwalk everyday at 6am and you can't believe how filthy it is.
Looks similar to the front of my residence. They throw their fast food bags out the window or on the lawn walking past. Break glass bottle all over the driveway.
Maybe Ocean City needs a night shift and not wait until visitors start their morning walk to wake up seeing this mess.
Its was probably the sea gulls
9:07 I have to agree. Most species modify their environment in some way. Some are more destructive than others (beavers felling trees which cause flooding and habitat destruction). I think the problem with mankind is that we do it at such an alarmingly fast rate the environment has no opportunity to bounce back. The pollutants, waste, etc. we introduce are either inorganic or not naturally occurring in the ecosystems we introduce them to, causing mayhem. Mankind also has the unique ability of being able to examine our actions from an outside perspective. We won't begin to address those who refuse to accept human induced climate change.
It could be seagulls, dogs or cats. It looks like a bag of trash was left outside the dumpster. The dumpster may be full.
Controlling services for the large number of people who visit is a big undertaking especially during these two or three weeks when the population really balloons.
And yes, people can really be animals but this is true for any place in the world.
If nobody was tending to these things Ocean City really would look like a dump with trash piled everywhere and it doesn't.
10:04 Human induced climate change is a lie.
Ocean City is fantastic at trash and street cleaning. I know, I live in downtown Ocean City. The problem is the people who are coming here have little to no class. I have seen them open the car door and put trash down on the street while parked next to a dumpster. I am counting down the days to when they go back to where they live. I would rather have less people come here who care about our environment, that the large amount of truly low class people that are coming in droves. The city services are second to none. It is just hard to keep up with the constant littering.
Garbage
Lives
Matter
People always talk about the myth of how trashy OC clientele are becoming. Well guess what? While this is undeniably the dirtiest part of the season, it is also the most expensive BY FAR.
These are individuals making bucko bucks, drive Land Rovers and Lexuses, and are overwhelmingly white and upper-middle class. (RE: White Marlin Open) These are the folks that produce the most litter, mostly because they have the most stuff. These are the folks in town right now. My entire neighborhood is full of them, and the trash they have managed to ignore in their far-flung ritzy suburban neighborhoods, which are dense enough to be filthy but spread out enough so that the problem is out of sight and out of mind, is unavoidable in a place like Ocean City.
Finally, lets not get it twisted: the boardwalk and OC in general is EQUALLY as dirty as it has ever been. It hasn't gotten worse, but there certainly isn't any progress being made.
Prove me wrong.
When there is absolutely no accountability, pics like this and others are the norm.
Trash has been discussed ad nauseam for years at City HALL (need more receptacles; more boots on the street; better coordination; smoking/not smoking, smoking receptacles; signs for language; noise; panhandlers; performers; vagrancy; medallions for taxis'; parking meters; etc etc etc) and the same outcome rings - NEED MORE MONEY!
Whats sad, is money that has been spent on items that were categorized as "quick wins" (language deterrent signs without enforcement comes to mind), instead could have been used for common daily occurrences - like trash pickup.
Now on the other side of the fence, many of our OC folks in the sanitation business are very skilled, hard working and loyal. The problem "overflows" when there is not enough to do the job (hence the funding challenge).
Guess that's where the City Manager (involved with Daily Ops) would come in....Hey Doug, what say you?
I'm a local and my friends and I walk the boardwalk daily at 6:30 a.m. The boardwalk from the inlet to around 10th street is a disgusting garbage pit. People visiting our town have no respect for anything. While it is easy to blame the seagulls, they certainly can't make the messes that we've witnessed during the summer season. People that visit our town have totally gotten out of control over the years. No regard to anything or anyone except themselves. Apparently the tourists leave their brains and manners at home (if by chance they have some) I see the street sweepers and the workers with their brooms and dustpans cleaning up this atrocious mess that was left to them by lazy disrespectful people. Just awful.
I suppose the recycling discussion is still off the table City Hall...because all trash is still burned at the incinerator right?
Funding issue - right??
2nd largest City (and revenue generator) in MD during the summertime and trash remains an issue - SMH!
For a family resort the families don't respect the city's citizens by picking up after themselves. Why isn't the OC board not cashing in by fining for littering?
From the looks of what is on the ground I bet it is a nearby restaurants trash. Looks like one of the more intelligent employees of this nearby business threw it on top of the dumpster and the seagulls did the rest.
Looks like the Assatigue horses were at it again!
Property owners are probably not yet paying enough TAXES.
Visitors are probably not paying enough to PARK the car.
Ocean City Officials: Get those sorry employees off their buts and get them to work cleaning up the town. It is a tourism industry. Litter comes with the money. You want the money, now do the job.
Your such a blind uneducated person for someone who is trying to report news lol....the garbage trucks make messes and oc had a crew that goes behind them cleaning...dude you need to educate yourself if you wanna call it news cause your pretty much just a gossip column
Who remembers the Garbage Pail Kids?
A lot of third world people there and this is how they live.
A rake and a can and 5 minutes it would all be gone.
Just got back from north myrtle beach looked nothing like this. NMB a true faimly resort.
Them darn ponies been here too
Drop a second dumpster so there's more room for the trash.
Problem solved.
Yes, it is disgusting. But it's going to happen. I have no doubt that it was cleaned up as soon as possible that morning.
To All You OC Haters Out There:
Give me a call the morning after YOU throw a party and invite about 350,000 people to stop by your place. I'll bring my camera.
I think the Town does a pretty damn good job cleaning up after the visitors every single day.
9:00 am.....I will be darn if I have to work to gets Welfare....do I look like a slave?
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