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How old are you? The bins at high risk locations have been absent or transparent for years.

jessaustin 7y ago
I guess I never frequent such locations. Which preserves the original question: why are the locations I frequent without public lockers?
- wrboyce 7y ago
  I was mostly being a bit cheeky as I thought your “how old are you?” upthread was a bit uncalled for; but you’ve replied and I’m always open to discuss an interesting topic! Alas I cannot answer your question really, if regular old “drop a bomb in me and nobody will notice” bins are common in your locale it seems safe to assume that public lockers have not been removed due to safety concerns. If I had to guess I’d say they were not utilised/profitable.
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    Maybe I am at a comfortable age, because taking offense to a question about my age doesn't cross my mind. I live in the Midwest USA, although I have lived lots of other places. I recently attended a playoff game at a stadium that seats 76,000, and I saw lots of normal opaque trash bins, both in and around the stadium. The bins inside were secured in that we had to walk through metal detectors and we couldn't bring big coolers in. The bins outside weren't secured by anything. A lazy terrorist could have backed his truck up to a row of bins and filled them to the top with explosives. This normal situation didn't strike anyone as odd. The military-media-industrial complex will have to do a lot more fear-mongering if they really want to drive us completely crazy. (White people in USA are fortunate to have never faced a sustained campaign of up-close terrorism.) The "efficient market in lockers" theory is not a null hypothesis. ITT, we haven't eliminated the "because homeless people use them" explanation for the widespread lack of public lockers.
    - refurb 7y ago
      You’re in the Midwest. Big city or small city? Terrorists tend to strike a major targets, so you’ll definitely find a difference in security measure between downtown Chicago and say Peoria.
      - jessaustin 7y ago
        Much of the time I'm not in a city at all. I have an apartment in Jefferson City, which barely squeaks over the line between "big town" and "tiny city". However I do a lot of the "light" travel I reference above. I've been in four different "big city" Greyhound depots in the last several months, and none of those had lockers. The playoff game mentioned above was in Kansas City, home of the Super Bowl Champion Chiefs....

I guess I never frequent such locations. Which preserves the original question: why are the locations I frequent without public lockers?

wrboyce 7y ago
I was mostly being a bit cheeky as I thought your “how old are you?” upthread was a bit uncalled for; but you’ve replied and I’m always open to discuss an interesting topic! Alas I cannot answer your question really, if regular old “drop a bomb in me and nobody will notice” bins are common in your locale it seems safe to assume that public lockers have not been removed due to safety concerns. If I had to guess I’d say they were not utilised/profitable.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  Maybe I am at a comfortable age, because taking offense to a question about my age doesn't cross my mind. I live in the Midwest USA, although I have lived lots of other places. I recently attended a playoff game at a stadium that seats 76,000, and I saw lots of normal opaque trash bins, both in and around the stadium. The bins inside were secured in that we had to walk through metal detectors and we couldn't bring big coolers in. The bins outside weren't secured by anything. A lazy terrorist could have backed his truck up to a row of bins and filled them to the top with explosives. This normal situation didn't strike anyone as odd. The military-media-industrial complex will have to do a lot more fear-mongering if they really want to drive us completely crazy. (White people in USA are fortunate to have never faced a sustained campaign of up-close terrorism.) The "efficient market in lockers" theory is not a null hypothesis. ITT, we haven't eliminated the "because homeless people use them" explanation for the widespread lack of public lockers.
  - refurb 7y ago
    You’re in the Midwest. Big city or small city? Terrorists tend to strike a major targets, so you’ll definitely find a difference in security measure between downtown Chicago and say Peoria.
    - jessaustin 7y ago
      Much of the time I'm not in a city at all. I have an apartment in Jefferson City, which barely squeaks over the line between "big town" and "tiny city". However I do a lot of the "light" travel I reference above. I've been in four different "big city" Greyhound depots in the last several months, and none of those had lockers. The playoff game mentioned above was in Kansas City, home of the Super Bowl Champion Chiefs....