When Clancy visited the Townsville Hospital recently on a personal matter he was given a large plastic denture container into which he was asked to provide a urine specimen, there apparently being a shortage of the usual Tiny Tim specimen containers . On a previous visit, Clancy was shocked when he went to the busy bus stop shelter and taxi rank opposite the hospital and spotted a dangerous pedestrian hazard , a raised sewer (man)personhole in the middle of the footpath, which had obviously overflowed at some stage , see above.Yuk. Safety conscious Clancy imagined many a tottering hospital patient running to catch a bus tripping over the sewer lid and ending up in emergency or maternity.
Clancy took the above photograph on his latest visit to the hospital showing the foot of a disgusted Kiwi nurse waiting for a bus, the dangerous top decorated with fag ends and incubating ankle and toe biting bacteria said to be capable of jumping extraordinary distances , according to advice on walls in public conveniences . As the real estate spruikers say : location, location, location . No doubt this Townsville attraction will be on the must see itinerary of all those tourist industry people coming to town soon , an event described by the Townsville Bulletin as a coup. The local poobahs should act quickly to overcome this obvious danger to pedestrians and unsightly blot on the landscape.
