Marco and Polo are the Voices of the River

Marco and Polo here,

   We know it's been a while.  School has started once again and things are crazy as usual.  Today our GEO (Greener Engineering Organization) group from school participated in the Flint River and Community clean-up.
 

   This basically entailed Marco, Polo, and Tex walking down the street to the park near the Hobo house and picking up trash along the river.  Now in any normal city this would be a task that mainly saw your basic junk food wrappers, cigarette butts, and plastic bags, but not in Flint.  We found the jack-pot of strange and sometimes disturbing finds.  We have ranked them by 'Most Interesting River Finds':

      10. Backpack full of school supplies

      9. A bag of clothes and shoes

      8. A quarter of a kiddie pool

      7. A diaper

      6. Half of a cordless drill <-- 

      5. Bottle of booze [empty :( ]

      4. Nitrile glove -->

      3. A shotgun shell

      2. Caution tape (of the crime scene variety) 

      1. Porn DVD

         

   These, of course, were found between the picking up of your normal trash and such.  Along the way Marco and Polo were accosted by trees and decided to become mud people.  We were covered in scratches and mud by the end of it. We also did some very interesting and precarious acrobatics to try and get all of the trash that the trees had caught when the river flooded.



 










   As we were leaving, Tex had to make the effort to get one last piece of trash he spotted on the bank of the river.  Turns out that even 'Jesus Sandals' don't give you the ability to walk on mud and Tex wound up knee deep.

As always stay nerdy!

Marco & Polo