RCO
Well-Known Member
when I was searching around a wooded property outside the city of barrie Ontario last weekend I encountered an odd sight . barrie is either a small city or a large city depending on how you view things , its population is around 140,000 now but I remember when it was much smaller
I happened to be down that way and wanted to explore a wooded area near the city that I had previously been to last year . its rate beside a major road and seemed to have some potential as being a place bottles might of ended up .
but I didn't really find anything , other than a semi modern " sobe " bottle although the plastic label had been pealed off so it wasn't any good .
near the back of the lot , is an odd pile of sand that hides from view the other side of the pile . when I walked up and looked what was behind it was truly disgusting . literally garbage everywhere, propane tanks, old broken bicycles and several tents ( or what was left of them ) it appeared homeless people had been living there at some point and simply abandoned everything several months ago
it unfortuently seems like this sort of thing might not be an isolated incident and these sort of encampments are rather common in some major cities . and if you were out exploring areas near a major city looking for bottles you might run into one
I recall reading an article about how 950 of these camps had been discovered and dismantled in Edmonton Alberta a few years back
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...le-dismantled-this-year-in-edmonton-1.3825147
I happened to be down that way and wanted to explore a wooded area near the city that I had previously been to last year . its rate beside a major road and seemed to have some potential as being a place bottles might of ended up .
but I didn't really find anything , other than a semi modern " sobe " bottle although the plastic label had been pealed off so it wasn't any good .
near the back of the lot , is an odd pile of sand that hides from view the other side of the pile . when I walked up and looked what was behind it was truly disgusting . literally garbage everywhere, propane tanks, old broken bicycles and several tents ( or what was left of them ) it appeared homeless people had been living there at some point and simply abandoned everything several months ago
it unfortuently seems like this sort of thing might not be an isolated incident and these sort of encampments are rather common in some major cities . and if you were out exploring areas near a major city looking for bottles you might run into one
I recall reading an article about how 950 of these camps had been discovered and dismantled in Edmonton Alberta a few years back
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...le-dismantled-this-year-in-edmonton-1.3825147