Highway workers lament increase of human waste

AP ^ | 12/16/2003 | AP

[EUPHORIC]

Consider the political source climate in the area. Hmmm... Don't we have a prominent mole here who hails from there?

[EUPHORIC]

Donations to the DNC perhaps?

[Dallas59]

Raise the fine to over $10,250.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Require the violators to spend 1000 hours public service cleaning up same.

[HiTech RedNeck]

"this is not a urinal" ad

well, it could be, but the offense is not to use it while underway but to pitch it out as litter. the picture should show it lying on its side in the grass on a median.

[Smokin' Joe]

Right. Get the big Snapple bottle, it is easier to go in...(wide mouth and all that).

[HiTech RedNeck]

Let's not... go there.

[Wonder Warthog]

"They're mostly found on interchanges near rest areas. Why can't they stop there?"

Way back a long time ago (before the Interstates) there were these things called "service stations" that had bathrooms. They were far closer together (in distance and time) than the "rest areas" along the interstate.

Sometimes you just can't WAIT another hour to drive the 60 miles to the next "stop". Or, to put it another way---"When you gotta go, you gotta go."

At least folks are putting the result in containers---it could be "pee against a tree". Which is worse???

[hellinahandcart]

Don't we have a prominent mole here who hails from there?

We have a Kennewick Man?

(How's that report coming?)

[hellinahandcart]

At least folks are putting the result in containers---it could be "pee against a tree". Which is worse???

The containers, for sure.

Every other animal on the planet pees right where it stands, including animals on the side of the highways. If it were that dangerous to humans, we'd all be dead.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I remember when as a kid on family vacations in a 4-door car. They'd stop on the shoulder, open both doors opposite the road for privacy, and me, dad, and brother would take our whizzes. Can't do that in a 2-door.

[hellinahandcart]

It's a bit more complicated for women, but let's just say a four-door is absolutely necessary for that, too.

[ridesthemiles]

It's a bit more complicated for women, but let's just say a four-door is absolutely necessary for that, too.
On most of the trips I have made in the last 3 years, a great number of the rest areas are closed with no evidence of when they are reopening. Since they are 60-90 miles apart in many areas of the western states, I don't get how the states can keep them closed and then get mad over the alternatives. I don't advocate the jugs method. I uaually am hauling horses, and in a bind, I can just get inside the horse trailer and take care of a bursting bladder. :).

[MrBambaLaMamba]

The solution is easy, outlaw plumbing!

Indoor plumbing and the use of toilets is an offense to certain cultures.
Can't have anyone being offended.

Compel everyone to sh*t in the bushes and just leave it there.

Problem solved, with the added bonus of a restoration of cultural aromas.

[philman_36]

From March 4 to Nov. 27, 2002, one Adams County highway cleanup crew picked up 2,666 jugs of urine and 67 bags with human excrement in them.
And who lives in Adams County...
City of Othello, Adams County Washington State
The lead agency for the local SIG project is the city of Othello, a rural, agricultural community with a large, migratory Hispanic population. (that's illegal aliens to the rest of us)
Snip...Arrests for vandalism, property, and violent crimes also exceed state averages.
Washington State Patrol
Criminal Activity in the Custer Rest Area
The Washington State Patrol partnered with the Washington State Department of Transportation and local Bellingham agencies in identifying the problem with criminal activity in the Custer Rest Area and coming up with a solution. With strong enforcement, redesigning of the grounds (cutting the underbrush, closing access from the county roads), the incidence of criminal activity in this rest area greatly decreased.
Can't find anything on the Adams County rest area though. Trends, trends, trends...

Will voters pay the price for roads? Debate rages over gas tax hike
Initiative 695 was the 1999 ballot measure that sought to abolish the state vehicle excise tax. Even though the courts threw it out as illegal, voter approval was so strong that lawmakers got rid of the tax anyway.
Rest area cuts may leave motorists high and dry
What would they do if the rest stop were closed on their next trip? The westbound Selah Creek stop is among the areas proposed for closure.
"Pee on the side of the road, if I had to go," Nita Murray said.
Looks like everyone is peeing on the side of the road anyway.
They're even leaving it conveniently containered. /sarcasm

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: a large, "migratory" Hispanic population

Yes, ILLEGAL alien traffic. IMO.

The instant I saw the article I wondered, now if I had a van packed with ILLEGAL aliens would I stop at every rest area, gas station along the way as each "passenger" needed to go, or . . . . Same if I had a load of ILLEGAL drugs and was ILLEGAL myself, driving ILLEGALLY.

The problem "started several years ago" said the employee who started work in 1989. So did massive violations of our borders.

[Wumpus Hunter]

About 12 years ago, I went to Florida with my buddy and his 2 young kids. His little boy had to go really bad, and we found what looked like a good spot along I-75 in Tennesee.

As we went up the hill to get to the treeline, it became apparent that it WAS a good spot, but it wasn't anymore. The piles of poop were so thick we couldn't even GET to the trees.

[Unknowing]

"Human waste, dirty diapers, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco. . . "

This is an attempt to further demonize tobacco, IMHO. By comparing toobackie to dirty diapers and human waste the anti-freedom activists are creating guilt by association.

[EverFree]

The *category* of "roadside litter created by jerks too busy to care" includes 'backie products. Cigarette butts are even more dangerous than the rest because they start fires.

So it's not "guilt by association."