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Editorial: Toilet trouble: City doing its best to deal with public defecation but root cause remains
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 07/23/2013

Posted on 07/24/2013 11:51:15 AM PDT by artichokegrower

It's a basic human act, and it says a lot about society -- and the state of homelessness in Santa Cruz in the year 2013 -- that a discussion about keeping people from doing it in public places is even warranted. But here we are.

The problem: An increasing amount of human waste is being found along the San Lorenzo River levee and in downtown-area open space. People relieving themselves in public spots is apparently a growing problem in the city, one that has residents who regularly walk the levee path and business owners along Front Street -- many of whom have back doors that open to the levee -- absolutely fed up. Who can blame them?

(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: headlineoftheyear; homeless; publichealth; santacruz
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To: Old Sarge; greeneyes; yorkiemom; Kartographer

What would you do if when the SHTF, some homeless people camp on your property? What if there are more of them than you? Say they aren’t going to attack you, but there they are, living on the ground.


41 posted on 07/24/2013 1:37:41 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
What would you do if when the SHTF, some homeless people camp on your property?

I'd start out with pepper spray while they slept. More pursuasive means would be used if that failed.

What if there are more of them than you?

High capacity magazines.

42 posted on 07/24/2013 1:53:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Marcella

The Tribe has a standing SOP for that case: drive them off. Not attacking TODAY does not translate into not attacking in the dark.

And those who mean you harm are watching your reactions; you will be tested to see if you’re an easy target yourself.


43 posted on 07/24/2013 2:04:09 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: Kartographer

Hi Kartographer, have you updated your preparedness manual lately? It’s really good, just wanted to make sure I had the latest.


44 posted on 07/24/2013 2:34:02 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (GOTS: Food, water, guns, ammo, useful skills, cash, and precious metals.)
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To: Marcella

I would feel the deepest sympathy for them, as I drive them off at gunpoint.

One can feel sorry for someone without letting them win. Just put your poker face on and do it.

My land can’t support that many.


45 posted on 07/24/2013 2:54:55 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: artichokegrower

If they were really compassionate Progressives there would be rolls of toilet paper hanging from every tree and telephone pole.


46 posted on 07/24/2013 2:57:26 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The only growth industries left under Progressives are government and poverty.)
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To: artichokegrower

I don’t understand... A Democrat newspaper mentions the “homeless” even though they have their African communist president Ubama in office? And a Democrat governor? And Democrat super majorities in the state legislature? Of course, this bold editorial proposes no solutions - - it only “wishes the city good luck”, but there you go. The only surprise is that the authors didn’t somehow find a way to blame the Republicans.


47 posted on 07/24/2013 3:07:25 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: x1stcav
{"50 - 60 years ago Santa Cruz was another of the Central Coast jewels. I used to go to the beach there (it was a lot warmer than Carmel) quite a lot as a child. It was even good into the mid-60’s until the hippies ‘discovered’ it."

I didn't make it to the bech often, mostly, I stayed here until I left in 1973.

48 posted on 07/24/2013 3:33:07 PM PDT by blam
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To: Marcella

They will attack eventually, if they think I have something they want. When the government stops the free handouts, they’ll find another way to get stuff without working.

Hence my armament stockpile ;)


49 posted on 07/24/2013 3:53:25 PM PDT by yorkiemom
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To: artichokegrower

How can this be true? As far as the media is concerned, the homeless magically disappeared with the election of Obama.


50 posted on 07/24/2013 3:58:37 PM PDT by Hugin (')
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To: Nea Wood

A pity, given that fountains used to be the public water distribution network from the Romans on.


51 posted on 07/24/2013 5:52:59 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Baynative

Looks like another old hangout we partied in (and rolled M80s from the Rolls) has bit the dust... LOL!


52 posted on 07/24/2013 6:43:12 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: artichokegrower

Yep. Utopia


53 posted on 07/24/2013 6:44:16 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: artichokegrower

...and now some new kind of disease is spreading out West...
cyclospora illness.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/stomach.bug.2013.new.mysterious.cyclospora.infection.causes.diarrhea.and.severe.dehydration/33345.htm

...spread by contact with feces.

What ever happened to public sanitation?


54 posted on 07/24/2013 6:51:25 PM PDT by miserare (Fire Eric Holder!)
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To: vette6387

‘I didn’t know that the Asiana pilots were staying in Santa Cruz.’

The co-pilot was there as well: Yoshi Tu Tlou


55 posted on 07/24/2013 6:51:47 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: artichokegrower

CA reduces itself to turd-world status.


56 posted on 07/24/2013 6:53:03 PM PDT by Vision Thing (He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
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To: henkster

Every neighborhood has a “yard pooper.”
= = = = = = = = = = = = =
Hmm NOT every...

I knew of no one that had the guts or gall to take a dump in my yard. Hell, even the dogs didn’t ‘do’ in my yard AND that was before leash laws were paid attention to.....


57 posted on 07/24/2013 6:57:53 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Inside every 'older' man there is a 'younger' man wondering "WTF happened")
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To: xrmusn

I thought the grifter nobama family was vacay in the Hamptons...they’re in Vera Cruz?????


58 posted on 07/24/2013 7:02:59 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Marcella

I don’t know. It depends on who they are and how they act. We have a small family, and might need some help. If they have some skills worth having, and aren’t druggies, I might dig an outhouse and give them a tent, and teach them what weeds and flowers are edible.

I expect that if there is no sheriff to call, that vigilante groups will form much as the baldknobbers of South West Missouri did to take care of such stuff after the civil war.

The baldknobbers usually gave a warning by leaving a bundle of sticks at the door. In Springfield Missouri, the citizens gently suggested there were better places to live than Springfield, and gave them some supplies to get them on down the road, thus channeling the undesirables away from the area.


59 posted on 07/24/2013 10:35:18 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: artichokegrower

WHEN will the OBAMA TOILETS be DELIVERED!!!!


60 posted on 07/25/2013 9:04:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Macabre Crumpet of Caucasian Ethnicity)
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