Prospect Park or City Dump? You Decide

photo: OpossumQueen

On Sunday eve around 6:30pm, Greg and I took Oliver for a walk in Prospect Park. We ended up sitting on a bench in the main meadow area, and decided to people watch for a few minutes.

Needless to say, there were a SHITLOAD of people to actually watch. Scads of folks kept walking by, seemingly on their way to some mysterious BBQ (in fact I was inspired to send this Tweet).

I had no fucking clue what was going on until the next day when I got my scoop from, where else, Brooklynian.

Apparently, MIHventures was holding "THE OFFICIAL OUTDOOR EVENT OF THE SUMMER - HEATWAVE 9.0: the annual MIH bbq!"

According to the invite, over 1000 people came last year. And based on the hordes of bitches that were *still* streaming into the park at 6:30, they probs had waaaaay more than that this year. And guess what??? Tons of hungry ass people eating hot dogs, drinking beer and munching on potato salad creates a whole hell of a lot of additional garbage. But wait, it gets better: guess where the Pepsi sponsored (UPDATE: Pepsi claims they had fuck all to do with this whole thing. For their sakes, I hope they are right) MIHventure-ers left all their smelly, nasty ass piles of trash?? Yep, RIGHT ON THE FUCKING GROUND!

Broken glass, abandoned BBQ's, beer bottles, you name it....strewn all over the park like it was the city dump.

Now, we've all likely noticed that there aren't enough trash cans around the park in the first place, HOWEVER, if you are planning an event for 1000+ people, you need to make some other motherfucking arrangements for all of your trash. I mean, duh. I've planned outdoor events myself, and this is one of the first questions any event planner with eight brain cells or more would be asking: what can we do about all the extra garbage??

The MIHventures bitches, however, never bothered to ask such questions. And so a rescourceful Brooklynian, Jamzer, went ahead and looked up all the email addys of the MIHventures employees so that we could all bombard them with some "WTF are you doing to our motherfucking beautiful park?" emails. I've just sent one myself (wheeeeeeeeeeee!), and if you enjoy sending angry rants as much as my ass does, I strongly encourage you to do the same:

Jonevan Hornsby
Jonevan_Hornsby@mihicon.com

Shane Bennett
Shane_Bennett@mihicon.com

Aquil Stinson
Aquil_Stinson@mihicon.com

Keenan Davis
Keenan_Davis@mihicon.com

AND, as it turns out, they didn't even have a permit! Too bad everyone was Twitterin-n-Bloggin about it, cause now the Parks Dept is P-I-S-S-E-D.

Anyway, people, let's remember the sage words of Woodsy the Owl: "give a hoot and don't pollute!"