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Sometime yesterday morning, some totally awesome people did the most totally awesome thing in the history of the world: They poured bubbles in the Love Park fountain.
Yes, someone saw two men pour a box of detergent into the Love Park fountain yesterday morning around 6 a.m., spreading bubbles all over the park and sending people into a frenzy. NBC 10 is all over it:
If you walked by Love Park early Monday morning, you might have thought it was snowing.
It wasn’t snow filling the fountain; it was soapsuds. [...]
While this may look comical, not everybody was laughing.
“I don’t think it’s fair to the city or to the tourists who take pictures here at Love Park,” said Blayney Stukes, of North Philadelphia.
The Fairmount Park commissioner isn’t laughing either. He said it could cost thousands to cleanup the fountain, a bill that taxpayers will have to pick up.
“Keep your bubbles back at home. That’s the signal I’m trying to send to you,” maintenance worker Melvin Fortune said.
Okay, some thoughts on the Love Park bubble fiasco of 2006:
- As I said, NBC 10: All over this story. But, gee, thanks, guys for letting us know it wasn’t snowing in early September.
- This quote: “I don’t think it’s fair to the city or to the tourists who take pictures here at Love Park.” Are you effing kidding me? That’s the best photo op ever! Don’t take my word for it. Check out the slideshow on NBC 10’s website. People are having a ball in there! I mean, don’t people go to Shampoo and pay to do something like this?
- It apparently costs thousands of dollars to hose down Love Park. Why do they even have to clean the fountain? Do you clean your washer after every load? Hell, the fountain’s probably cleaner than it’s ever been.
- This quote: “Keep your bubbles back at home. That’s the signal I’m trying to send to you.” People tell me this all the time. But what I hear is, “More bubbles, please.”
Vandals Fill Love Park Fountain With Bubbles [NBC 10]
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I was serious about those bubbles. This is the fifth - the fifth! - time in my ten years as a maintenence man for the city of Philadelphia that some idiots have put bubbles in that fountain! The soap is corrosive and can cause major damage to the marble, not to mention the bubbles will probably take weeks to get out of the system! Don’t you make light of this situation! It can - and probably will - cost the city thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, to clean up.
Melvin,
Could you suggest a non-corrosive brand of bubbles for the general public to use? Perhaps something that will also spill over the fountain and clean the god damned park.
I’d rather the Fairmount Park commissioner spend his time figuring out how to stop people from urinating in public. It may or may not be as corrosive as the bubbles, but I’ll take bubbles over pee any day.
Ross-
The numbers just came in yesterday, and guess what… it will cost the taxpayers approxomitely $225,000 to clean the park of all the bubbles you and your little buddies thought were so great. Tell you what, why don’t we switch jobs for the day and then you can bust yr ass sweeping and scrubbing only to have idiots like you pee all over your freshly cleaned work. And I can sit on my ass reading computo-blogs all day, like you. Get a life!
… not to mention the environmental damage from the chemicals in the detergent… oh, but why bother thinking about that… it looks so darned neato…
I know the guys who did this and they used seventh generation brand detergent from WHOLE FOODS, so no damage to the environment was done
Enough of this hippie liberal BULLSHIT! I don’t give a damn about the environment or however many generations are in your laundry detergent! I just give a damn about cleanin’ up that stupid park that you damn pinkos wrecked up with yr damn bubbles! And now the spendocrats are using $225,000 of YOUR tax money to clean it up!
well, the colored water is really cool but I do feel for Melvin. even if it wasn’t corrosive or was epa sensitive–don’t you remember making the mistake as a kid of pouring the wrong soap into the dishwasher or washing machine? the bubbles never ended and took forever to get out. It hits the border between cute and not-so-cute, especially if it affects a lot of people’s jobs. which it did.
Melvin,
Even though I’m from Dallas and didnt get to see the bubbles in person I think that it is quite funny. You complain because you have to clean it up when you should be thinking of it as job security. As for costing $225,000 to clean it up? Well that goes to show how effective city workers are. Maybe we should evaluate your work ethics instead of whinning about bubbles.
uh, i’m pretty sure that’s NOT the actual melvin fortune.
Oh, I’m not the actual Melvin Fortune, am I? Just like you liberals, you don’t believe in God and you don’t believe people when they say they are who they are. Get a life!
As a city worker myself I find it two things very wrong with this blog, one the lack of respect for your city workers, they spend countless hours working to do the little things to make your city better. Things that most people take for granted. Two, Melvin, as a city employee I can not believe the way you are acting. You are a city employee and if you can not conduct yourself in a proper manner, then you should not be allowed to post on the internet.
Bryan
City of Burlington