Garbage Car

Announcer: Look at this car. It's enough to make you sick. And you've only had to see it once. You should try smelling it. Ann Porter has had to see it and smell it every day for more than two weeks.

Ann Porter: How would you feel if you was to wake up and come outside to take your kids to school or whatever it may be, and find that?

Announcer: It's a station wagon abandoned right in front of her home--the door opened, old clothes thrown inside and out, smelly junk on top. Inside, garbage everywhere, and that's just the beginning.

Ann Porter: You have your pornographic magazines, the needle syringes, the trash, it's real bad.

Announcer: Porter says the pile of junk is an eyesore, and a health hazard, especially for her three children. But every time she's called the city, nothing happened. She says someone from the city's environmental services came out once. But a week and a half later, the car is still here. And Porter feels like no one is listening.

Ann Porter: But that's unfair, because everyone deserves fairness, and that there is unfair.

Announcer: Earlier today, police officer, Ernest Pierce, tried to get the city to tow the filthy car away, but a tow company refused to touch it. So tonight, there it is. Still smelling up the neighborhood. Still there, and Porter says, as a glaring symbol that government doesn't work very well in some parts of the city.

Ann Porter: I'm afraid of that. That can turn into a fire hazard, a health hazard, who knows? There's rotten bananas on the hood!

Announcer: Herb Cawthorn, Ten News.

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