Triggered by Banana Peel

[Thumpalumpacus]

It's been reported a student put it there . As Thena323 pointed out.

Yeh the student admitted he did it. But he claims not because of racism.

Whoa now. You mean to tell me someone might make up an excuse for tawdry behavior?

Here's what I think: I think he wanted to point up "snowflake" behavior, so when the question was asked "who did this?" he owned up, and allowed that there was no trash-can around, in order to poke fun at the sensitivity of the "snowflakes".

If he really had a conundrum of no trashcan being around, why put it up on a tree? Why not simply throw it off-trail? Putting it on the tree so that it hangs is not something that happens randomly. And look at this picture:



I notice two things about it immediately:

1) There's a building within perhaps 75' of the spot where the peel was hung. Does he expect me to believe that there's no trash can inside that building? Or would he prefer me to believe that his lazy ass couldn't be bothered to walk that far to do what he claims is due diligence in disposing of his litter?

2) That peel is hooked onto a stub of the tree, and not thrown randomly.

Putting those two facts together, he carefully hung it outside the building on the tree when he could just as easily have taken it inside and thrown it in the rubbish bin. Coincidentally, just outside the building like that, it would be noticed very easily.

Sorry. This is clearly an act of deliberation, where the actor was not nearly so subtle as he was obviously trying to be.

It's very rare I've found racists to say, "Yeah, I did that because I'm a bigot." In my experience, hemming and hawing is the usual course of behavior for them.