Day 1 of a strike by 9,000 municipal workers in Philadelphia shocked even the most hardened olfactory senses as bags of seeping garbage quickly formed pungent mountains before the city skyline.
By Day 3, some had dubbed the city’s new contours “Parker piles,” laying blame at Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s feet, as the streets felt increasingly apocalyptic.
But if this is anything like the 1986 strike, the city’s landscape will only grow more grotesque with each added trash bag left to stew in the sun…