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Harming Children on Purpose

Razor blades embedded in playground equipment?!  I thought that nobody would do such a thing.  Until the news reported that it has happened four times in a San Diego, CA playground.  And in an Illinois playground a month ago.  And in Philadelphia eleven months ago.  Where else, I wonder.

But I wonder even more how anyone could fasten razor blades to jungle gyms and climbing bars or bury them in sandboxes, knowing full well that little children would have fingers, hands, and knees sliced open, causing pain to them and their parents.

I hope for a quick catching and prosecuting of those people.  An adult’s responsibility is to protect children, not to terrorize them.

 

 

Earth Tip: Bike-Share…or Just Bike

So what if five San Francisco Bay Area cities, including San Jose (http://www.vta.org/bike_information/bike_sharing.html) and San Francisco(http://www.sfbike.org/?bikeshare), are launching their bike-share program?  Well, it encourages us to leave our car behind and rent a bike for an hour or a day while we run  errands, go sightseeing, or whatever. (More details can be found at http://bayareabikeshare.com.)

This reminded me of some figures I ran into some time ago about what would happen if all Americans aged 10-74 walked or biked half an hour a day instead of driving: we would save 6.5  billion gallons of gas and lose 3 billion pounds off our bodies.

Something to think about…and try.

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