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It's a flashback to all the stories of hypodermic needles washing up on shores: Over the weekend, a 7-year-old girl was jabbed by an old needle on Staten Island's South Beach. The previous week, a woman at S.I.'s Midland Beach was jabbed by a needle when she was sitting on a sheet.
Little Sayyidah Johnson told WABC 7 what happened: "I was playing with my buckets, scooping up sand and making sand castles. I put my thumb down and I felt a point." Eek! She went to the hospital, where doctors gave her antibiotics but did not test her blood, because the needle (reportedly "caked with dried blood" per the Advance) was "too old to carry any pathogens." The Midland Beach needle victim, Filomena Rago, is awaiting her blood test results.
The Parks Department told WABC 7 that two needles on Staten Islands beaches was a "very unusual occurrence" and recommends that beachgoers call 311 to report it. Still, Sayyidah's mother said, "They need to do something about cleaning the beaches."
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they need to do something about parents who let their kids dig so deep in the sand on city beaches. yuck.
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Geez, what is with some people nowadays? "Dig so deep in the sand"? Hey, Toby, how do you know how deep she dug? And what about the woman who was just sitting in the sand? Are you saying she's such a wide load that she sunk deep in the sand? People are just in such a hurry to be snarky that they don't bother to read.
And isn't this just another wonderful reason to legalize drugs? It'd be great to see tons more used needles heedlessly discarded by junkies. (Does anyone think a high junkie would take the time to find a garbage can?)
I worked last year at a beach in Staten Island and contrary to what the parks dept. is saying, the occurence of people getting poked by hypodermic needles is very common along staten island beaches. The incident reports i looked at for the 2005 season contained no less than 20 reports of hypodermic needles. and that number is most likely inaccurate because reports are only filed if the (victim?) decides to spend an hour with the paperwork.
Yeah Toby, the nerve of a kid playing in sand at the beach.
Idiot.
have you guys checked your sarcasm meter? does it need new batteries?
hey Brightliner,
Obviously needles on the beach are band, but changing a few drug laws wouldn't necessarily make more of that happen.
I feel that an argument for legalization would be that non-needle based drug taking methods would be dominant if they were easily available, and that people wouldn't have to do their drugs at night on the beach out of fear of getting caught.
who's in a hurry to be snarky?
After this, theres no way in hell I'd step foot on a NY area beach again (But then again, I wouldn't go to the beaches here anyway)
If you like seaweed, brown water,rocky beaches and topless 60 year old women, then any Tri-state area beach will suit you perfectly.
This is why I only swim indoors. Gross. Poor kid.
dear sayyidah's mom....somebody should do something about it.... how about you start volunteering to help pick up trash on the beach, bring your little brat too. perhaps if you stopped thowing the butts of you capri 130s and the bottlecaps of you smiranoff ice on the ground that would help too.....waahhh but I dont have time to volunteer..make a donation....waahh I dont have money to make a donation.....STFU then
Should people like sayyidah's mom volunteer to pick up trash in Central Park before using that too, al?
They closed some sections of the west end of long beach for a few weeks about 20 years ago when medical waste was washing up: I was ten and lived down the block...That summer sucked. I think the old hypodermics and medical waste wash up from being dumped out in the ocean. Do they still do that?
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You're an idiot. I wasn't trying to be snarky. What makes you think needle users wouldn't use them on the beach in broad daylight if it was legal? If people like you are so desperate to get your fix, I really wish you'd do it all at once and put yourselves out of our misery.