Have your say on this week’s hot Facebook topic

The hot topic of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, April 2 to 8, was:

Parks to be turned into cemeteries to make room for the dead: https://bit.ly/1S72Tgf

The Germiston City News joined in the April Fool’s Day fun with a story of our own: “Do you enjoy walking your dog in a park near your home, or spending time there with your family? Well enjoy this while you can as soon all parks in Ekurhuleni will be utilised as cemeteries. The metro has been steadily running out of space to accommodate the dead for a number of years and has hit upon the idea of turning parks and green spaces into the final resting places of its residents.” The article was identified as an April Fool’s joke later in the day.

You said:

•  Karen Allan-Grainger, “May not be a bad thing, dead people don’t litter, rob, hijack, murder, etc. Parks have been left to ruin and become criminal havens over the years, very very few kids are allowed out alone, let alone to play in a municipal park in the suburbs, they are used as illegal drug dealing, alcohol selling and prostitution areas – so no great loss.”
• Carole Ann Rheinhard, “Mine shafts are empty?? And the sea has lots of space and you can be food for the sharks at least be useful in the end.”