Underneath the stands at the Indy 500
Posted May 30, 2021, 10:16 PM UTC
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You can always count on humans to be selfish and terrible.
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Granted there are some times people that inadvertently drop things down there.
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So scary. What happened to this city. This has never happened at any previous 500s.
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I'm shooken
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This was my first time at the Indy 500. It was supposed to be at 40% capacity. I can’t imagine what that’s like at full capacity. I don’t understand throwing a can or bottle on the ground and justifying it as someone would get paid to pick it up. That just seems classless.
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The sad part is this is nothing compared to full years
Usually the infield is a mess of people too
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I can’t imagine what a regular year must look like!
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This is under EVERY grand stand.
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This is under EVERY grand stand.
And every year too! It's nothing new.
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So it’s acceptable?
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you would this find at literally any large event, people are wondering why you thought this was special and posted it
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My question stands: so it’s acceptable?
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Creating jobs, nice work
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Let's go break some windows and stimulate the economy 🙄
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Seems to be the consensus, given the amount of people feeling the need to make excuses for this type of behavior. Can I get more downvotes, please? Lol
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From what I am gathering, it’s volunteers trying to get money for their nonprofits, correct? So IMS doesn’t really hire anyone for clean up. I was able to find an article where there was a group with 35 volunteers and they got $3500 for their nonprofit for 10 hours of work. I imagine that is cheaper than actually using employees for the job. Plus it would be a write off for the IMS.
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Went to my kid’s hockey the one year I did it so I’m not complaining.
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I think it’s great that some nonprofits can make some money cleaning up! I just don’t understand justifying trashing an event for that purpose. While I don’t think it’s good money they are giving the nonprofits, I understand some nonprofits will take anything they can get. I have done similar fundraisers in the past for Girl Scouts, music departments, and community nonprofits-I get it. My uneasiness comes with the behavior behind those doing the trashing and their excuses for it.
Bring on the downvotes.
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I just don’t think 100% of the trash in the stands comes purposefully. People shuffle thru stands things sometimes get knocked over.
Now the blue solo cups in your picture, I totally think that’s from a POS.
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Did you find your keys?
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I didn’t lose anything. I was just walking back to the gate and everywhere I looked under the stands was like this. So I took a picture.
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When I was in the military and stationed at Dover AFB, our Squadron Booster Club would rally volunteers to work all kinds of positions at the Dover Downs NASCAR race. In many cases, we'd be working alongside people actually getting paid to do the same thing. Yeah, those "workers" had no problem sitting back while we busted our butts to get things done. Trash pickup was never one of the tasks but we worked the showbox kitchen, security, food tents, and ticketing.
So, they got paid to watch us work and we worked circles around them to earn money for our squadron.
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Do you know how much your squadron got?
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If I remember correctly, it was around $35/day/person and we'd have 20-30 volunteers so around $3,150 max for Fri/Sat/Sun, 12 hours/day. It works out to ~$3/hr. lol
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Wow!!! That’s so nuts! I’m all for working for donations but that seems more like exploitation. Regardless, I just can’t seem to wrap my head around people being ok with trashing an event because someone is getting money to clean it up. More so realizing how little money the nonprofits actually get. And I am being downvoted to hell for it lol
I was also in the military and I know we tend to have very strong work ethic, ass chewings help lol
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When you are sitting in the stands its not like they have trash cans very accessible for our trash.
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I am realizing I am in the minority for making the effort to throw my trash away. Also, this isn’t the only place that looked like this. There were sections of the campsites that looked just as bad.
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Don't worry it happens every year and its not changing. Burning furniture in the coke lot is a yearly event.
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I’m a newbie to Indy and this was my first race. Next time I go I will make sure to take more pictures, just for the downvotes if nothing else.
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At least somebody will be able to recycle all of that now
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This was taken at 2pm.
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Everything I've read is that these are volunteers.
I volunteered at the track a few years ago with the youth hockey group. I dunno the math of it all but they took $100 off the total fees for my son that year and I got to spend the day at the track for free.
Sincere question: do they get paid or is it a donation? Because if it’s a donation to the non-profits than than that’s a sweet deal for the IMS, given they get their trash cleaned up and it’s a tax right off.
The non-profit get pretty good donations to clean the track after the race.
I found an article that showed a group of 35 volunteers got $3500 for 10 hours of work for their organization, plus whatever they can get for recycling.
I think it’s great that Indy will “donate” to nonprofits but I can’t help but think that is not a whole lot of money. Seems like it would cost more to actually hire people for that work. $3500 is nothing to IMS given that the lowest ticket price is $85 and they can have 300,000 people. I think IMS should give them much more for that work, especially since it’s a tax write off for them.
https://amp.indystar.com/amp/3745382002
Edit to add that regardless of the circumstances of how this is all cleaned up, it still doesn’t make it ok to trash an event. This is just one picture taken before the event was even over, at 40% capacity, and other areas faired worse. Saying it’s ok to trash a place because a nonprofit will get mediocre money to clean it up seems unethical, IMO.