Oddest service project?

[33girl]

One of our pledges came up with the "brilliant" idea of picking up garbage in the park. Not with the nice vests and pick-up-sticks like Adopt a Highway - just going in the park with their bare hands, after dark if I remember correctly. The whole pledge class almost quit over it. It was degrading, needless (the park was maintained by the borough) and they would have looked like homeless people digging for garbage. I have no problem with cleaning up public areas, but to do it this way was just gross. Thankfully they came up with a different project.