Common sense (or the lack of)

3. We live in an area where a long time ago it was deemed not worthy of a visit by the garbage pick up truck even though there are many people living there.
If we wanted to get rid of garbage we had to take it to a collection point around 4 or 5km from us.
Just recently the powers that be put up a notice at the collection point stating that if you put garbage there it could only be on the collection day which is Friday, now the latest madness is another notice specifying a long list of items not allowed to be dumped there including glass bottles, Styrofoam and wait for it old shoes !
There is also now a CCTV camera pointing at the dump so they can identify any culprits who do not tow the line.
I am not a visionary or an environmental expert but i can see and will soon smell what will happen, what can be burnt will be and glass bottles will be thrown onto the nearest wasteland.
Who thinks this sh1te up

 

Your good old local municipal authority, backed up by an army of barangay tamods.

 

Another example of lacking common sense is found with the Alarms entity NDRRMC.
In itself it's a good initiative to warn people in a particular area of impending disaster of course, but to send alerts for every time a volcano has a hiccup that's hardly noticed 10 km away, let alone when it (Kanlaon) is 100 km away like in our case.
If (as it does) NDRRMC sends dozens of Kanlaon warnings in the course of a single month (5 of which on January 2 alone) to everyone on Negros, then the obvious result will be that nobody pays any attention to such warnings whatsoever.
If people could sign up to receive a warning only if it actually blows up and the ash-clouds rise up to 5 km or higher instead of a measly 300 meters, oh well , that's daydreaming I know.