"The amount of sewage spilled would cover a football field - including the end zones - 6.3 feet deep...Signs were posted along Marin County shoreline and at San Francisco beaches - including Crissy Field, Baker Beach, China Beach and Aquatic Park - to discourage people from entering the water."
Someone's going to need a lot of doggy bags to pick up that doo doo (6.3 feet deep?! Now, that is just wrong. I can't get the image out of my head.One Roman doo doo is about 2 inches deep on a good day. So, we are talking about shit as deep as 19.5 Roman doo doos!).
But, thank doG for people like Dolphin Club member, Dave Maloney:
He was "... fixing to take a swim near Fisherman's Wharf when he learned about the sewage spill Friday afternoon. He went in anyway.
"It looks clean," he said. "We've already had two tide shifts since last night. That cleans it out."
The old-timers, he noted, swam in the bay every day before San Francisco and other communities even bothered to treat their sewage. "It cures a lot of sicknesses," he said of the 47-degree water. "I haven't had a cold in 25 years."
Leave it to an Irishman to put things in perspective. We've (being half Irish myself) certainly dealt with worse shit (pun intended) and things always get resolved after a couple of pints. What's a little raw sewage?
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Holy sh-t! yeee-uck...i don't think i would swim in that water, but then again, I am on the Howard Hughes end of the hygiene-phobic spectrum (and look what happened to him!!)
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