SFist Tonight
Week Around the Ists
SFist Tonight
They frolicked in the surf yesterday afternoon down at Pacifica's Pacific State Beach, which appeared to be still unaffected by the Cosco Busan oil spill.
But this was the scene less than 10 miles (as the un-oiled crow flies) to the north at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. These people appear to be the trained crewmembers who are getting paid for picking up remnants of the spilled bunker fuel.
Some people who volunteered themselves to help are a little pissed off about being turned away. Les lettres de cachet state that the Heavens Will Fall if anyone with 39.9 hours or less in hazardous materials training attempts to go out on a beach to lend a gloved hand. The Cranky Buddhist is somewhat $uspicious of all this.
(Of course the gasoline people pump into their cars also can be a "hazardous material", so some states ban motorists from pumping their own gas. All depends on how you look at it.)
At least a few people are organizing (possibly dangerous, probably illegal, and definitely) unofficial cleanups for today anyway.
Stay safe out there!
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Sometimes the best way to help is to volunteer to stay out of people's way. If it keeps one overzealous volunteer from dunking themselves in material that'll have god knows that consequences, then it's not a bad idea. Besides, if untrained people want to help still, they can organize a bake sale or carwash or garage sale with the procedes going to the baykeeper organization.
do you think they are wearing the hard hats to protect themselves from getting a seagull "dropping"?!!!