Annual trashing of Pittsburgh by Kenny Chesney fans breaks tonnage record

More than 48 tons of trash were left by fans of Kenny Chesney attending a concert this week in Pittsburgh-something of a tradition for the country singer. The piles are staggering, the smell appalling: an aftermath so disgusting it has some speculating on how it's even possible to generate so much trash in such a short amount of time. It's almost as if it was trucked in and left there to make a point...

As the concert let out around 10:30 p.m. and cars began to clear from the parking lots, a reeking, hulking mass of garbage leftover from the day's earlier festivities began to appear behind the exodus of country music fans.

Pickup trucks crunched glass bottles underneath tires; fluid from portable toilets overflowed into the street; people covered their noses with their shirts to escape the stench.

"You're just walking around on a carpet of garbage." Dozens of drunks were hospitalized and several people arrested, reports the Post-Gazette.

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The tonnage is a record, apparently; a Billy Joel concert was attended last weekend by a similarly-sized crowd without event.