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Vergil,
Privy-digging is one of the biggest forms of site-looting here in Richmond. The
local bottle collector clubs love to tear into every privy they can find, week
after week after week!
Dan
Vergil Noble wrote:
> Speaking of clandestine digging, anyone see the syndicated medical
> advice column by Dr. Gott published in many Saturday newspapers this
> past weekend? The writer wanted to know if he could contract any
> diseases while "privy digging." It seems he has eye on some
> 50-year-old privies that he wants to get into for bottles and other
> relics. The good doctor advised him that there was probably very
> little health risk, but wondered why he would be intersted in privies
> used in the 1950s--since that was in his own lifetime and folks then
> rarely used them as trash recepticles. Instead, he highly recommended
> searching for privies on old farmsteads, where the you could find
> really good stuff--the older, the better!
>
> Imagine if we anyone were to hand out harmful and outrageous medical
> advice publicly. Accordingly, I'm planning to write a pretty pointed
> letter to Dr. Gott and to my local newspaper. Unfortunately, I did
> not bring the paper in to the office today, but I will attempt to scan
> the text and provide the doctor's address tomorrow for those of you
> interested in piling on. Perhaps a coordinated campaign of protest
> might even result in a retraction of such bad advice.
>
> [log in to unmask]
--
Dan Mouer
"Pioneer"
http://saturn.vcu.edu/~dmouer/homepage.htm
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