There was a news story recently about 'found' panties being hung along the Purple People Bridge in Cincinnati.( http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Panties-Found-Along-Ohio-Road-To-Be-Hung-on-Bridge/jZle-W5AP0W-0BAU_UwfDw.cspx ) The panties display is intended to bring attention to cervical cancer.
No where does it say what will be done with the panties afterwards.
Will they be allowed to hang until they've fallen off or blown away? Imagine boating beneath the bridges and having women's undergarments fluttering into your vessel. Is your woman going to believe that if she isn't there at the time? Unless that story was also to make news.
Will they be washed and sanitized and repackaged into zip-lock(T) bags, tagged as sanitized, and redistributed to the poor? Auctioned off in odd lots?
I haven't been able to find the answer, although there has to be a way, especially in this information age.
The pantie disposal problem made me wonder, too. If you were in desperate need of underwear, and had no way to get any on your own, where would you go? Who would you ask? How particular would you, personally, be? Many people find the thought of second hand underwear as totally disgusting. Of course, many people think underwear unnecessary and nonessential, anyway.
I don't know what your thoughts and feelings are on the matter.
I don't care.
But I think it's worth thinking about, if you needed these items, what would you do? Who would you ask, where would you go? What would you accept, if your alternative was doing without?
Maybe you could throw a new pack into a charity basket every now and then.
Or, when you pass under the bridge, and catch an awareness-raising garment, you can donate it back to someone's cause.
Thanks.
I didn't understand (and still don't) how hanging used panties found on roadsides and now flying from a bridge supposed to make peeps think of cervical cancer? Makes me think someone lost their panties.
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