Yesterday we saw something that I'm not sure how to feel about. We were walking from DB to Beast, and as we passed the Crypt there was a woman with 2 kids (4 to 5 years old) in a wagon by the green drink recycling bin. She had taken the lid off and had a few shopping bags leaning in digging through the bin getting out aluminum beer cans loading up the plastic bags. Hard times are visible everywhere, but this was kind of suprising to see in the park. I was curious to read the perspective of some of the philosophers here about this. I haven't formed an opinion one way or the other, just reporting.

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My first thought is.. if you are that tight on money, what are you doing in Kings Island?

You, of course, not meaning you snowman, for those in the forums who take every word to literal meaning, but you in the broader sense.

An odd sight indeed...

The question is, if they saw this happening, would a security guard take the time to stop and ask what was going on and order this woman to cease her garbage rooting?

If I was the security guard I would tell her nicely to stop as it makes the park look like clevela... oops I mean crap...

-MagmMForce247

Yeah, I agree with kingsrattler, if you are so tight on money why are you at Kings Island?

People who are tight on money might want a day with where their kids can have a lot of fun. Its sort of a escape from reality.

There is a chance that she might have an obsessive compulsive disorder.

Maybe they all had season passes that they bought last fall and fell on hard times since. I hope that is not the case. I hate to see people suffer.

They weren't dressed as though they were homeless, kids looked clean cut, and their wagon was one of those nice big wooden Radio Flyers that looked fairly new. I've gotten to thinking about the revenue of all those aluminum cans. I bet KI gets quite a check from Rumpke. I also wonder if there's an actual KI policy forbidding guests from collecting the aluminum cans.

If I was the security guard I would tell her nicely to stop as it makes the park look like clevela... oops I mean crap...

-MagmMForce247

Hey! I have friends and family that live in Clevelasportburgh! Stop it!

Maybe they're avid recyclers, and just can't pass up the opportunity...

Actually KI pays to recycle. From my understanding they make their money off of recycled cardboard and that essentially covers the dumpsters and recycling bins around the park.

Actually KI pays to recycle. From my understanding they make their money off of recycled cardboard and that essentially covers the dumpsters and recycling bins around the park.

Then Ki isn't losing any money from her taking the beer cans. So is there any harm in her doing this? I personally don't see any.

Visually it is a problem. It gives the park a negative image in my opinion.

There is a chance that she might have an obsessive compulsive disorder.

That was my first thought, too. Maybe she didn't think the park recycled and thought the cans would go to waste if she didn't save them.

People always think that their own behavior isn't strange, it's other people that are strange.

KI has probably never thought of a policy towards collecting the cans because they never though anyone would do it.

I wonder if that lady does that in other pubic places?

Visually it is a problem. It gives the park a negative image in my opinion.

I agree and it did. Coming off the rush and mental break DB offers, it was quite an intense dose of reality.

That was my first thought, too. Maybe she didn't think the park recycled and thought the cans would go to waste if she didn't save them.

Except that she was digging in a bright green bin labeled "Recycle".

Also, I should mention that I know an employee who was gathering cans to recycle at one point and was never told to stop.

Except that she was digging in a bright green bin labeled "Recycle".

Maybe she thought it was a command then.

Maybe she thought it was a command then.

That's still cracking me up!! (I aint gonna be using that new pink emoticonyface.... 'cause I'm happily married)

Except that she was digging in a bright green bin labeled "Recycle".

Maybe she thought it was a command then.

hahahah

The work of Xenu, no doubt! Perhaps a tinfoil chapeau would alleviate that problem.

The work of Xenu, no doubt!

I had to go Wiki Xenu...before I did I thought it was going to be a video game reference...but as Rodney Dangerfield might have said "I was WAY off!".

It's nice to learn something new...even if it probably won't ever come into play in my life.

Well, I live in a very economically depressed area of the country. It's quite common to drive down the road and see people picking up cans and scrap metals. You feel sorry for them until you see a nice, new, shiny vehicle sitting on the side of the road...then they get in and drive off.

Well, I live in a very economically depressed area of the country. It's quite common to drive down the road and see people picking up cans and scrap metals. You feel sorry for them until you see a nice, new, shiny vehicle sitting on the side of the road...then they get in and drive off.

Good point. The wagon she was pulling was definately nicer than anything I had as a youngster. But they didn't recycle aluminum cans when I was a kid!