The weirdos, punks and hippies in the town where I grew up all hung out at a little park downtown. Many of us are on a social media group together. Someone shared this park classic with us.
Ah, memories...
Arsenic can leach to the surface of the treated wood, becoming accessible for absorption through exposed hands and skin touching the wood surface and, especially in the case of children, ingestion through normal hand-to-mouth behavior. [...]
Exposure to arsenic can cause cancer of the lung, bladder, skin, kidney, prostate, and nasal passage. Data released in November 2003 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that 90% of children repeatedly exposed to arsenic-treated wood face a greater than a one-in-one-million risk of cancer.
Sounds like a great pipe :D
My town set up log fencing along our trails and sidewalks. They would decay so fast, the ranger would have to drive by everyday to check the fences.
They treated the fence the same way you described. They were always tinged green. Kids would run their hand down it, on their way home. Enough kids got sick, that the town noticed.
Did they take down the rotting, poisonous fence?
Nope; everyone just knows not to touch it. They really like that "rustic" look.
I've seen this exact picture in memes from half a decade ago! Same angle and everything.
https://Lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ee7a71c-1ab1-4ca0-9c71-28208942f5c0.jpeg
Yeah, I saw it reposted a lot on r/trees over the years.
I swear it was from People's Park in Bloomington, Indiana. I could even tell you who carved it if I wanted to doxx them, which I don't.
Edit: This is the only photo of it I can find before they renovated it in the 2000s without pictures of friends in it. You can see the bricks are the same even though you can't see that table.
I don't mean anything by this, Flying Squid, but are you a bot or something? I see you post in like every single thread on Lemmy.
Maybe just someone with a lot of free time.
I don't mean that in an insulting way either. A lot of people frame it that way, but a life privileged by free time is better than a life lived in servitude of excessive work.
Sometimes that's how seeding content goes. Most content in the beginning, is recycled and posted in mass. Even though it's been out there, you've consolidated/ curated the content. That then draws in new users. Eventually, the goal is that they post their own content.
We're all just trying to get the ball rolling without spamming.
If someone puts care into collecting/ curating their content, there's is a good chance they're using an automated posting script (usually python). I wouldn't hold it against them, though. Even if you're making you're own content, you can build a cache of content and then automate the posts. You just have to worry about topical/ current events.
I used to make content based on Planetside 2 (for ps4) that was semi successful. I never wanted to make money, and I spent a lot of my own. I even caused the old sub reddit to flourish (I even made charts, they're on /r/ps4planetside2).
Long story short, though, it's people who want to create a community.
Very true, and I appreciate the efforts. I only follow a few active subs so they do tend to dominate my feed.
Looks like something you would see at a disc golf course
Maybe, but the park was sort of converted from a vacant lot, so it was tiny. No disc golf.
Do you want hepatitis c? Cause that's how you get heoatitis c.
No, it really isn't.
Hepatitis C is transmitted by contact with another person's blood. You need to be sharing needles, having sex with, or been given a blood transfusion of another person that is infected.
Still gross though but teenagers tend to be gross.
I mean we were all making out with each other anyway.
thats really not true.
I don't know... what's in it for me?
You get to look like a Simpsons character. But not really, that's just your liver shutting down.
Pipes should be provided as a municipal service
I knew ours wasn’t the only town to have one of these
I've seen a very similar picture of this a few years back. Happy to see it wasn't removed but no fucking way I'm smoking out of that ...
When you're a teenager, you take what options you can get.
Pop can, apple, toilet paper roll wrapped in tinfoil, using tap aerator as pipe screen, hot knives on the stove, bottle tokes off the end of a burning cigarette, etc. Lol.
Pen + water bottle until they replaced the metal tip with chrome plated plastic onesa
Apples always worked too
Yeah no way that isn't filled with dried piss or worse. Nowadays gas stations sell glass pipes, but even if you're desperate an apple or soda can will do the trick.