Mexico City Going to War With Gum
Filed under: Wacky, Tacky & True
The country that gave the world chewing gum is doing something about against it now!
Apparently, the average square yard of Mexico City sidewalk has 70 'blobs' of discarded gum.
And now, the city is out to rid itself of improperly disposed sticky stuff!
Mexico City's director for conservation of public spaces, Ricardo Jaral, is the general who'll be leading the charge against gum.
Starting February 1st, he's commanding an army of 10 German-designed machines to make the Distrito Federal's sidewalks gum free. Said machines will treat the city's common areas with steam and chemicals to dislodge the sticky stuff.
"When you finish chewing a piece of gum, you either have to put in a piece of paper and deposit it in a trash receptacle, or swallow it," said Jaral.
Swallow it?
Gross!
We were just in Mexico City and didn't notice the gum mess.
We're all for it, though!
Stepping into someone's nasty, improperly discarded gum sucks!
[Image via WENN.]
It is not a bad thing, but there are probably more worthy causes.
i think thats cool, but im addicted to gum so from now on im gonna put it in some paper and suitably dispose of it
Lucky guy.
You'd think that those tidy Norwegians would be more fastidious, but Oslo is splattered with gum. It's incredible!
its not at all nasty, its actually good.
4th!!!
LG WON'T TOUCH THE STUFF! HOW TERRIBLY CRASS GUM IS!
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REVOLTA AND QUEER TOMMY HAVE SWALLOWED A LOT MORE GRODY THINGS THAN GUM!
It's false mate, I live in Mexico City and this is not true, over-exageration.
Have you noticed how most of your NON-CELEB stories always end with "Such-n-such Sucks!" What a BRILLIANT and noteworthy summation to a story! My God, you work so hard on coming up with these astute and insightful opinions, Mario. Is it because you want your vocabulary and stories to only appeal to 10-yr-olds or what?!
third
juicy gum is horrible!
Re: ANAKAR!NA – second and third
Interesting… but not as interesting as www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-pHMN4DyA
If you swallow two packs of normal orbit after chewing it, you will fart a bubble.
Check your facts (again), Perez. Your stupidity is getting way too annoying. Chewing gum wasn't invented in Mexico. It was probably invented in the Nordic countries where the oldest chewing gum has been found.
Yawn! Gum? oh man, Mario we don't care if you only post 1 or 2 gossip blogs as long as they are interesting., but gum? You need to get back to being the gossip ganster, or hire someone to do your job while you are out mingling with the rich and famous because this blog is how you make your money and once you become boring, peesh we'll be out looking for better entertainment, you know how fickle we all are:)
One time I fell asleep chewing on a huge wad of rootbeer gum. It ended up falling out of my mouth, getting in my hair and all over my pillow, and then it somehow fell down onto my sisters bed and attacked her too. We woke up crying because we thought it was throw-up. Why do people have kids again?? LOL
Here's a fukin idea. Tell the parents to stop giving their fat fukin kids so much gum. Put gum trash cans everywhere and then fukin fine that assholes that throw the shit everyfuking where. I want to kill someone, when I step on their shit gum germs. shitfuk
I'm glad to see that the local Mexican government can mobilize to clean up gum. Can someone tell those Beaners to mobilize to fix their national education system (*NO MORE UNIONS!!*)so folks who are lucky enough to graduate high school can have more than what is equivalent to a 5 grade education. Then maybe, just maybe those strawberry picking bastards can staying their own country and find a sustainable job. Who doesnt understand this equation? No companies or big businesses want to move to a country full of dummies. Geez!! Come on Mexico!! Get it together!!
Good for Mexico. I hate gum. People look low class and sloppy when they chew gum. Plus, gum breath is the worst!!!!
My family lives in Mexico City and no one knows about this. Must be a publicity stunt to up tourism.
Uhm, you think it's gross to swallow gum? Then don't put it in your mouth. Moron.
Swallow your gum and then when you fart, you can blow a bubble…
I've noticed that a lot of the smaller businesses will give you Chiclets in lieu of small change. Most people will in turn give it to their kids to shut them up and then the kids spit it out anywhere they like.
Re: hot_homo – I live here in Mexico and have come to realize that Mexico D.F. has a whole different agenda from the rest of this poor country that is plagued with governmental corruption. La Raza marches to a different drummer.
I ALWAYS SWALLOW MY GUM, IT'S ALREADY IN YOUR MOUTH WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SWALLOWING IT? ANYONE WHO THINKS IT TURNS INTO A ROCK IS FUCKING STUPID, AND THATS STUPID WITH A "U" NOT A "OO" PEREZ YOU ANNOYING ASSHOLE. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SWALLOWING GUM.
Who spits their gum out on a sidewalk? That's disgusting. Are people really that lazy that they can't find a trash can?
good. these gum spitters need to learn better than to spit their nasty ass gum for someone to step on. I think its annoying as hell.
I'd much rather swallow my gum than what you like to swallow
oooooo……. chris brown im like ur biggest fan but never went to ur concert but hopping to because i have love u since i was 9
Re: hot_homo –
I attended to school in Mexico and I am clearly far more educated than you, and I know plenty of mexican students that are more educated than you are.
You know nothing about the situation in Mexico, you are the one that doesnt understand the equation.
There are plenty of big companies in Mexico, companies from all over the world.
Getting the country together is far more complicated than it seems, unfortunately.
And before saying something stupid like that, make some research or read a little about it, dummie
And Perez you are an idiot. You didn-t notice the gum mess because its obviouly not all over the city, just in some zones, and I am sure you didn-t visit that zones. Stop pretending like you know that city, you only were there for a week and didnt get to know it all. I bet you didn-t even go to the historic centre, because you are very uneducated and ignorant. You know nothing about the country, or the city. So stfu.
i don't currrr about gum, chris brown's smile is gorrrrg !!
MAYBE THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP GIVING KIDS BOXES AND BOXES OF CHICKLETS TO SELL AS A WAY OF GENERATING INCOME!
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ITS LOOKING LIKE A COSTLY PROGRAM!