>We witnessed the French solution to this problem in 1986. We were in a
>park in Le Havre on a fine spring day when this guy dressed like Evel
>Knievel roared up on a white motorcycle and stopped about 30 feet away.
>He lined the front wheel of the bike up with a canine offering; a white
>pod-like vacuum head descended along the front wheel fork, covered the
>pile, and sucked it into a container on the back of the cycle. Then
>another pod came down and scrubbed the concrete with a whirling brush.
>And it was on to the next pile.
>
>Is this what you had in mind, Dennis?
>
>David Wright
>dwright at u.washington.edu

I LIKE IT! It's fantastic! Sounds like something from Star Wars.

But we'd have to develop a two-wheel drive model for scooping through the
grass at Magnuson.....

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416