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With restrooms closed by shutdown, problems pile up at Minnesota state parks
pioneer press ^ | 7-13-11 | dave orrick

Posted on 07/13/2011 6:05:02 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

While such parks normally are bustling with people - and have facilities to serve them - the relative seclusion appears to have emboldened some to do their business along trails and other areas where no Minnesotan would normally dare to squat.

"People are taking it upon themselves to go out in the woods and relieve themselves, and without the presence of employees and others, they're not picking up after themselves," Konrad said. "People are also having a tendency not to pick up after their pets."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bear; dayton; doody; doom; eow; parks; poop; restrooms; shutdown; woods
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we're doomed.
1 posted on 07/13/2011 6:05:08 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I wonder if anyone outside of FR readers has ever seen the pattern of

when they government has to “shut down”, they only shut down those things that hurt the people, not those things that hurt the government or its employees.


2 posted on 07/13/2011 6:07:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

It’s SOP for government bow-wows.


3 posted on 07/13/2011 6:09:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Has anyone noticed that a lot of folks in this country resort to their most primal, animal tendencies the minute that the Government Mother/Father is taken away.

Even as a young boy, I had been taught how to deal with my basic bodily functions in the woods. Nothing a little shovel and thirty seconds of time could not handle.

People these days are pigs.


4 posted on 07/13/2011 6:09:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Good grief...it seems people in MN can’t even take a dump without government help. Why are they publishing this embarrassing indictment of the citizens of that state?


5 posted on 07/13/2011 6:10:36 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: WOBBLY BOB

May I ask a question: Why aren’t volunteers cleaning the dang restrooms? If I were the tea party in that state, I’d be recruiting members to do the job. Then I glove up and take a day myself :)


6 posted on 07/13/2011 6:10:55 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Generally when you read about highway rest stops being closed it’s because they’ve become gay hook-up areas for gay men on the prowl over a there or four state area.


7 posted on 07/13/2011 6:11:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: WOBBLY BOB
"People are taking it upon themselves to go out in the woods and relieve themselves, and without the presence of employees and others, they're not picking up after themselves," Konrad said. "People are also having a tendency not to pick up after their pets."

A Sheryl Crow orgasm in the making....even LESS than 1 square being used.

8 posted on 07/13/2011 6:11:41 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: mewzilla

Look who’s ‘essential’ in Minnesota
Shutdown has governor’s housekeeper, gardener, lawmakers still on payroll

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=321301#ixzz1RzQQu7NP

maybe campers should poop in Marx Dayton’s yard.


9 posted on 07/13/2011 6:15:19 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Horrors!

Seriously. I spent several summers at a Minnesota summer camp. Unless things have changed drastically, there are endless places to relieve oneself in the great north woods.


10 posted on 07/13/2011 6:16:06 AM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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To: mewzilla
May I ask a question: Why aren’t volunteers cleaning the dang restrooms? If I were the tea party in that state, I’d be recruiting members to do the job.

Actually that's a great idea.

The unions aren't about to let it happen but its great PR for tea partiers and it exposes the left.
11 posted on 07/13/2011 6:16:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: kittymyrib

who will whipe their butt?

it’s a crisis , I tell you!


12 posted on 07/13/2011 6:16:28 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: MrB

Yep, exactly. It’s always the critical services that get impacted first. Never mind the millions spent on stem-cell research, AIDS, and gov’t assistance to Somali immigrants and welfare queens.


13 posted on 07/13/2011 6:17:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2012)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Consequences of electing a Sh-—y Government. Perhaps if they had spent less time promoting diversity and more time prompting the boy scouts, people would have learned to bury their s-—.
A blue state government that has worked diligently to destroy personal responsibility is starting to reap the rewards.


14 posted on 07/13/2011 6:17:47 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Did the parks require an entrance fee?

Could that fee cover at least costs of fee collection and restroom cleaning?

Don’t shut down operations which are, or could be, self-funding.


15 posted on 07/13/2011 6:18:56 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“Does a bear ...”

Aww, never mind....


16 posted on 07/13/2011 6:25:04 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Vermont Lt

All you need is a trowel and a limb so you can do the Orangutang Hang.


17 posted on 07/13/2011 6:25:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

So, the real things the government employees do there is nag folks to pick up after their dogs and provide TP/ unlock the restrooms? I bet We the People can figure that one out without union pensions being part of the package.


18 posted on 07/13/2011 6:25:22 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: EGPWS

If the (closed) parks are so busy,but people do this any way, this must mean there are a lot of Minnesotans who enjoy people watching them drop trou.

Sounds more like a Loring Park deal.


19 posted on 07/13/2011 6:26:42 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: mewzilla

Spend the day following Dayton around with a group of picketers instead. In the 1995 Government toilet shutdown, the facilities werer locked; volunteers could not get in to clean them.


20 posted on 07/13/2011 6:27:44 AM PDT by ngat
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