Some said they worried about car crashes, fires, garbage and increased pollution.
"Maybe it's just the warming of the weather that brings out the rats, fires, garbage and druggists, prostitutes, weirdos or maybe it's just me".
But for most ordinary folks with families, children and regular jobs, living with rats, fires, garbage, druggists, prostitutes and weirdos is simply too big a price to pay.
But this attention to detail is helping Oshkosh Truck clean up in the often messy business of manufacturing fire, garbage, cement and military trucks.
The family's former landlord, Vincent Mayers, 82, said Patrick was known to steal bicycles and set fires in garbage pails.
There had been a few days of "classic violence," largely the setting of fires in garbage cans, said the prefecture spokeswoman, who in common with police practice did not give her name.
It was near the starting point that vandals, some with bandanas or masks covering their faces, spray painted "Fuck the police" on walls and used cigarette lighters to ignite small fires in garbage cans along the route.
On the coldest nights, Delhi's street workers and pavement dwellers set fire to garbage to keep warm, and these fires are frequent talking points among Indians who seem to regard themselves as stranded between the great, ignorant unwashed on one side and the feckless and feuding city, state, and national governments on the other.
Hundreds of youths clashed with the police outside Parliament and other central landmarks, smashing store facades, setting fire to garbage dumpsters and prompting officers to fire stun grenades and unleash thick clouds of tear gas that sent Athenians and tourists scurrying into side streets with their eyes streaming.
Hundreds of protesters set fire to garbage trucks and threw projectiles at the police on Thursday as a garbage crisis flared up near Naples.
As the jihadists swept through northeastern Syria, they seized fire trucks, garbage trucks, ambulances, generators, water tanks, and rescue equipment that had been provided to local councils.
