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Citizen complaint of the day: Too much sunscreen at Millennium Park

By adamg on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 12:54pm

A concerned citizen reports somebody started the new sunscreen dispenser at Millennium Park and then just let it keep dispensing until the ground was covered in sunscreen.

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West Roxbury
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Millennium Park


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Comments

By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 1:06pm.

Just roll your little gingers around on the ground folks

By Suldog on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 5:26pm.

Seriously?

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By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 1:27pm.

Like we didn't know this would happen.

By MostlyHarmless on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 2:41pm.

I think a, uh, friend, has seen a video of that on the internet before.

By Kaz on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 2:51pm.

Link?

By Kaz on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 2:49pm.

Look. I think the plan for these is dumb. But if we have them, then they shouldn't be vandalized. I hope they catch the mental midgets who did this and make them clean it up...with their tongues.

By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 3:39pm.

I really hope the cops use all their resources to catch this perp, it's not like we have people being shot

By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 4:31pm.

You can design the systems to be vandalism-resilient, such that the only attacks that get much of anywhere are mailboxing by car, and some crazy park perv smearing their spooge on the nozzle.

But most DoS by exhausting the reservoir can be prevented, and should have been considered in the first minute of thinking about the design problem.

By Elmer on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 5:39pm.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 2:59pm.

It was just glad to see them.

By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 3:00pm.

Didn't see that one coming... should have a ten second delay between squirts built in lol

By cybah on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 4:50pm.

should have a ten second delay between squirts built in lol

That's what she said....

By Felicity on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 6:02pm.

Make them Full-Serve only, problem solved.

By anon on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 9:10am.

Sounds like a worthwhile taxpayer funded job.

By Russ on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 1:19am.

Have to confess I had no idea where Millenium Park was, and I've been living here like forever.

By adamg on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 7:54am.

Click on the "Millennium Park" link at the end of the original post for a ton of items about the park.

By anon on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 9:13am.

Your average public bathroom has all manner of auto-shutoff devices nowadays to prevent accidental (or intentional) waste. Faucets, lights, and paper towel dispensers use motion sensors or timers to turn off after people are done using them. And some bathrooms have replaced paper towel dispensers with those heater hand-drier things (which again, automatically shut off). Yet the people who manufactured these devices couldn't do the same?

By anon on Tue, 07/07/2015 - 1:18pm.

The report says "Sunscreen all over the ground around sunscreen dispenser near playground at Millenium Park."

Adam, why did you assume someone did this on purpose? It could just be that the machine drips or occasionally gets triggered by mistake, and the solution is to install a drip tray underneath it.