Used Hypodermic Needles Spilled Onto El Sobrante Street

[Ptarmigan]

Used Hypodermic Needles Spilled Onto El Sobrante Street
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/11/05/2000-used-hypodermic-needles-spill-onto-el-sobrante-street/

EL SOBRANTE (CBS SF) – A street in El Sobrante has reopened after fire crews and a hazardous materials team finished removing an estimated 2,000 used hypodermic needles that spilled onto the roadway early Tuesday morning.

The spill was reported just after 5 a.m. on Santa Rita Road near Appian Way.

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District crews used brooms and shovels to pick up the needles and put them back in the container they appeared to have come from, Fire Marshal Lewis Broschard said.

I wonder if there was a drug party that involved DUmmies. 

[vesta111]

Used Hypodermic Needles Spilled Onto El Sobrante Street
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/11/05/2000-used-hypodermic-needles-spill-onto-el-sobrante-street/

I wonder if there was a drug party that involved DUmmies. 

My thought is someone involved with handling Hazard matter  did not want to pay the huge price to dispose of them, a hospital or large clinic perhaps.

  Perhaps some contractor won a bid to remove and have destroyed the toxic matter from a medical facility the cost to collect and destroy figured into the bid.   Some of it the needles were taken out at 5 AM and just dumped in the street.   The contractor therefor saving the money to have them properly disposed of.   

Seen this done with AB removal from Military ships by private contractors.   At least 3/4 of the stuff ended up in the woods or city business dumpsters.  Temps would come in to remove the stuff from the triple bagging  replace in the outer plain green bag and carted off to save the company's thousands of dollars.