NEW ORLEANS RECOVERS 46 TONS OF OLD BEADS

New Orleans is getting ready for Mardi Gras. One of the chores: clean the beads out of the sewers. The city has pulled a whopping 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads from clogged catch basins in a massive cleanup effort that took four months, cost $7 million and required almost two dozen vacuum trucks. The colorful plastic necklaces are typically flung from windows and Carnival parade floats – sometimes in exchange for women flashing their breasts. The tons of beads were all found along the procession routes. The city now plans to put guards on gutters to stop the beads from reaching the sewers.
* Oh, thank God. For a moment there I thought they were going to put guards on women who flash their breasts.
* The weird part? Cleanup workers were required to gather the beads while topless.
* If anyone needs some beads, I bet you can get some used ones from the city real cheap.
* To get rid of the sewer smell, just boil ’em for about two weeks.