This Badass Journalist Is Solving Detroit’s Abandoned Boats Problem By Bringing Them Back To the Owners In A Captain’s Hat
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Sometimes the best solution when tackling the problem is to face it head-on instead of hiding in a bush. That’s exactly the approach of the hero of today’s story, featuring a journalist Ronnie Dahl, who found a brilliant solution when tackling Detroit’s abandoned boats problem. Despite it being a serious issue, it does seem best to look at everything with a sprinkle of humor, which she does on a daily basis working as a journalist. Scroll down below to see what did she come up with!
This is Ronnie Dahl – a Detroit based journalist
In her job as a reporter, she often has to tackle problems ignored by others. In this particular case, it was something everyone was aware of but probably just too lazy to do something about.
Who rolled up the sleeves and decided to do something about the many of Detroit’s abandoned boats
What bothered so many, seemed like a one woman’s job for her, so she took it upon herself to track down the owners of the abandoned boats of Detroit area and become quite known for that in the area.
One Tumblr user noticed something new in her reports this year though
The hat just can’t go unnoticed
Ronnie decided to cheer the reports a bit with the new edition to her look – a captain’s hat. So yes, go ahead and abandon your boat in Detroit if you dare! There’s a good chance you’ll get to appear on a local TV when The Captain tracks you down and brings it back to you.
Her style choices sure cracked the Internet up
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People that dump their junk instead of finding a proper way of removing it are the lowest POS. You had the money to buy, now spend the money to get rid of it. Besides that, I guess someone could make a living out of scrapping the boats and recycling parts.
Huh, I thought rapists and murderers were the lowest POS.
Fiberglass-hulled pleasure craft are worth precisely NOTHING in scrap. Once they fall into disrepair they cost an incredible amount of money to refurbish, or an incredible amount of money to dispose-of.
theoretically, if they could afford the boat... the should be able to afford to dispose of it. Or is this a case of "people buying something they can't afford, to try and look richer than they are"?
So a "removal fee" could be a solution to the problem. In Europe we had to pay a fee on all electrical equipment we bought to pay for the recycling. In the end it turned out that recycling electrical devices is very profitable so the fee was cancelled. If you say that the disposal of these boats is costly, let everyone who buys a boat also in advance pay for the disposal of it. Edit: According to all the downvotes I guess a lot of people are all for a clean environment, but when it could cost them money to dispose of the superfluous luxury junk they buy, their environmental awareness changes in a heartbeat.
They why they should just burn them and return the materials to the earth. And if you do it right get some insurance money too
Maybe these boats could be moved to a playground. Setting them on a low see-saw means kids could rock back and forth while playing captain/sailor. Kids can find a way to play with just about anything. Drill a hole in the bottom so they don't collect rain water. Ahoy, matey, playground ahead!
In theory that sounds good but there is the issue with the material and kids getting banged up. Even besides that you have paranoid parents who wouldn't want their kids playing in something that came from a crack alley.
Plus there is rarely enough water to use a boat on a playground
That sounds very dangerous. The boats are abandoned and have never been claimed by anyone because they are old and falling apart. Maybe you wouldn't mind your kids playing in a playground made of rotting wood and metal (it's not THAT dangerous, after all), but would you want to be the person in charge of said playground - the first person in line to be sued when someone breaks a leg or gets tetanus?
people who live outside the city love to come into the neighborhoods and dump thier trash. What they dont know is some ppl (like me and my neighbors) care about our neighborhood. So gotcha! your on camera that we take to DPD and you get a dumping ticket. Stop being lazy
People that dump their junk instead of finding a proper way of removing it are the lowest POS. You had the money to buy, now spend the money to get rid of it. Besides that, I guess someone could make a living out of scrapping the boats and recycling parts.
Huh, I thought rapists and murderers were the lowest POS.
Fiberglass-hulled pleasure craft are worth precisely NOTHING in scrap. Once they fall into disrepair they cost an incredible amount of money to refurbish, or an incredible amount of money to dispose-of.
theoretically, if they could afford the boat... the should be able to afford to dispose of it. Or is this a case of "people buying something they can't afford, to try and look richer than they are"?
So a "removal fee" could be a solution to the problem. In Europe we had to pay a fee on all electrical equipment we bought to pay for the recycling. In the end it turned out that recycling electrical devices is very profitable so the fee was cancelled. If you say that the disposal of these boats is costly, let everyone who buys a boat also in advance pay for the disposal of it. Edit: According to all the downvotes I guess a lot of people are all for a clean environment, but when it could cost them money to dispose of the superfluous luxury junk they buy, their environmental awareness changes in a heartbeat.
They why they should just burn them and return the materials to the earth. And if you do it right get some insurance money too
Maybe these boats could be moved to a playground. Setting them on a low see-saw means kids could rock back and forth while playing captain/sailor. Kids can find a way to play with just about anything. Drill a hole in the bottom so they don't collect rain water. Ahoy, matey, playground ahead!
In theory that sounds good but there is the issue with the material and kids getting banged up. Even besides that you have paranoid parents who wouldn't want their kids playing in something that came from a crack alley.
Plus there is rarely enough water to use a boat on a playground
That sounds very dangerous. The boats are abandoned and have never been claimed by anyone because they are old and falling apart. Maybe you wouldn't mind your kids playing in a playground made of rotting wood and metal (it's not THAT dangerous, after all), but would you want to be the person in charge of said playground - the first person in line to be sued when someone breaks a leg or gets tetanus?
people who live outside the city love to come into the neighborhoods and dump thier trash. What they dont know is some ppl (like me and my neighbors) care about our neighborhood. So gotcha! your on camera that we take to DPD and you get a dumping ticket. Stop being lazy