Moo Pig Wisdom is a brilliant combination of Antiquity and Prequel Modern Flea Market. We respectfully ask you to mind your children while here.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Vesuvius, Napoli, Garbage Strikes, and a Slovakian Super Kicker

by Pat Darnell

Last time we were in Napoli Summer of '07, there was a garbage strike. We flew to and from Italy through NAP. It was my first time to see the monster, Vesuvio'.

Picture: AP | Infrared Picture of Vesuvius, This is a night-time infrared photo of Mount Vesuvius in 1943.

Dec. 6, 2004 — Italian authorities have renewed the cash offer of up to 30,000 euros (about $40,000) for any family wishing to move outside the shadow of Mount Vesuvius in the attempt to reduce the potential hazard of what has been described as the world's most dangerous volcano.

Campania, the region that includes Naples, last month set up a 30 million euro ($40 million) Vesuvius hazard risk program, confirming and improving last year's cash offer for those wishing to relocate to safer areas. [ Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News; Vesuvius Residents Paid to Move Away. SOURCE]

Meanwhile, later in the New Century -- Garbage was piling up
May 30, 2007: roxygypsy [HERE] "I heard Naples has had a trash collection strike for months, and the garbage is so high you can't navigate. Any truth to that? And does it extend to Sorrento, where we'll be staying in a week or so?"

May 30, 2008: bob1edmonton [HERE] "Just got back from Naples unbelievable problem. Highly recommend you bi-pass Naples a huge health risk. Sorrento does not have the same problem. Comments from locals say it is do to lack of a new landfill and the mafia controlling pickup. Really recommend a state of emergency as a plague could originate there and spread throughout the world. A disgrace to Italy and lack of government leadership."

May 30, 2008: krabikrazy (ibid)
From the BBC
-The Naples Doctors Association recently expressed its concerns over the potential for disease to spread, with rats, cockroaches and insects thriving in the mountains of garbage.
"As we clear the backlog the rats come spilling out of the bags," said Domenico Montella, a rubbish collection supervisor.
"Sometimes there are hundreds of them, scattering in all directions.
"They have been treated to quite a feast," he jokes. "Some of them are bigger than my forearm."

May 30, 2008: jjkdc (ibid)
Unless things have changed DRASTICALLY in the last few weeks, the city center is fine. I was there for 5 days in early April. There streets were NOT teeming with rats and roaches. They were teeming with the people who live there.
The garbage-disposal problem in Naples is not a new problem, though the media sometimes makes it sound as if it is. This has been a problem for a number of years now.
If you have an interest in going to Naples, by all means go to Naples. If you want to go to Sorrento, then go to Sorrento. They are like night and day, and cannot be compared with one another.

But in 2009 Facebook Social Network can see Napoli through any catastrophe:
Last Thursday, Mr. Hamsik was out for a stroll when he was robbed at gunpoint of 800 Euros, and his Rolex watch. Fearful that this would hasten his departure, and perhaps doom their season; fans of the Napoli team jumped onto Facebook and created a group with the sole purpose of saying “Sorry.” Four days later, this group has over 4400 members all wanting to apologize, and let him know that the regular people of Napoli don’t condone what happened.
One of their star [soccer] players is [the] Slovakian gentleman named Marek Hamsik, who has been linked with a big money move to teams across Europe. [Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 by Simon Heseltine; HERE]
Let me think a moment, as if I'm wearing the shoes of Marek Hamsik... hmmmmm "....in shadow of notorious, active volcano that once destroyed Pompeii, -- garbage and filth piled higher and deeper for almost four years, -- mugged and robbed while strolling the city even though a well-known hard-working person....."

"Sure, I'm staying! That's amore."

3 comments:

Pribek said...

Sounds like what they need in Naples is some good old Chicago style politics. You don't ever hear about Brian Urlacher getting mugged. As far as Waste Management in the Windy ah...well you know how it's done. Point is, it gets done!
Think about this, Blago...that dude is looking for a job. Sure, he's got a few rough edges, who doesn't? Blago knows how to administrate, knows how to cut a deal. He just got in a little over his head that's all. You know he'd mellow out in the better climate.
Blago, pack up the hair helmet and the foul-mouthed shrew and make your move Son. Naples needs you. You could turn things around.
Naples-Veal butcher To The World!

MooPig said...

I thought you might aught to know just where all the shoes are coming from.... high altitude Italian garbage dumping.

Pribek said...

a couple for your continued research..aged shoes
http://www.luxist.com/2009/01/10/italian-shoes-well-aged/


Lattanzi buried some of his handmade shoes in an aging pit for four years. He calls them "Scarpe di Fossa, or "entombed shoes."

and our good friend stratoblogster

http://stratoblogster.blogspot.com/2009/01/italian-guitar-gear-is-sexy-just-like.html#links

Pictured is Molinelli's G-Spot model. Those crazy Italians put SEXY in just about everything-- cars, shoes, kitchen appliances, you name it!

Blog Archive

SUNDAY :: bishop FM 105.9 Auckland



[Go To SOURCE]

Gary Grainger LIVE BluesShow from Auckland, 6 to 8PM LondonTime .... you listen too.

DISCLAIMER

: It is PROHIBITED by law to use our service or the information it provides to make decisions about consumer credit, employment, insurance, tenant screening, or for any other purpose subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 USC 1681 et seq. MooPig Wisdom does not provide consumer reports and is not a consumer reporting agency. The information available on our website may not be 100% accurate, complete, or up to date, so do not use this information as a substitute for your own due diligence, especially if you have concerns about a person’s criminal history. MooPig Wisdom does not make any representation or warranty about the accuracy of the information available through our website or about the character or integrity of the person about whom you inquire. So dip your balls in turpentine and get rid of your own fleas before calling me out.

Ask Someone Who Cares -- SUCH AS SUCH MULCH

To report any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist,
homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, please click
--ask_someone_who cares -- ASWC to report with pertinent details.

Anyone posting such material will be immediately mesquitte blackened over a very hot pit fire down at C and J's BBQ on Harvey-Elmo-Weedon Road, and permanently removed from all servers, its IP
owner will be locked in a small room with back issues of
The ECONOMIST, and one scratchy re-mix 8-track tape of Steely Dan's first album...
IP addresses might be recorded to aid us in enforcing these conditions, that is if we cared.

A Fantastically Flawed Script for a Jazz Rock Opera -- "GAZA"

A Fantastically Flawed Script for a Jazz Rock Opera -- "GAZA"
GAZA by Pat Darnell for the Age of Attritionally Challenged

Email MooPigster Customers' Alert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywR3ouHKP4
If you receive this post via email, you notice it is mostly 'blank'.
We at MooPig Surmise, that at this point, one either says:
"WOW, I'm off the hook, and don't have to pay any attention to that pesky MooPig STUFF!!"
-- OR --
"Hey, where is it ...?"
The answer is: "IT IS A youTUBE presentation"... and you will now click on the http above to go see this modern miracle of technology.

MooPig Wisdom is Your Life-Line to Parody:
24\7 -- We accept all Calls from Contestants

MPW Unique Value Proposition, UVP
Shards of Evidence ... Opinion and Editorial ... We Blunderbuss indigestible Ersatz of Readers' and Writers' ... Explain Strategies of quasi-firms... and some not so quasi ... 110% Proof
One Only
Advertisement Only One
Publisher of Satire ... Enemy to Bombast ... Very Swank ... More Fun to Write than to Read

MooPig Wisdom is online to provide spring board for writers.
MooPig is the Writers' Writer that encourages voice, content, and style. PD

Bill Gaines said it

Bill Gaines said it
"My staff and contributors create the magazine," declared Gaines. "What I create is the atmosphere."