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40 Tons of Trash Removed From Santa Cruz Homeless Encampment
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Posted on 03/03/2018 2:14:21 PM PST by nickcarraway

San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz had zero homeless campers Friday for the first time in months.

Rain turned the trampled park into a giant mud pit and a flock of geese waddled around the puddles. A large dumpster was the last remaining piece of the 4-month-old encampment.

The city required all campers to move out of San Lorenzo Park and shifted them over to a newly-opened encampment on River Street.

During those four months, a total of 40 tons of trash was removed from the camp, known as the Benchlands.

"Currently the field is in very poor condition, with all the rain and with all the activity we've had at the Benchlands. It's kind of a mudbog right now," said Mauro Garcia, city parks and recreation director.

City crews will not be able to make improvements to the field until it dries out.

New soil will be brought in, some minor grading will occur, the field will be aerated, seed planted, and straw will be placed down to help it germinate.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: obamaville

1 posted on 03/03/2018 2:14:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Doesn’t say how many tons was stolen property.


2 posted on 03/03/2018 2:44:34 PM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOithS / PC guy forever and alway)
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To: nickcarraway

So where did they move the homeless people too?


3 posted on 03/03/2018 2:44:44 PM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: nickcarraway

Doesn’t say how many tons was stolen property.


4 posted on 03/03/2018 2:45:28 PM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOithS / PC guy forever and alway)
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To: nickcarraway

About a decade ago the homeless were camping in a narrow strip of densely wooded land between a major road in Tallahassee and a K-Mart parking lot. It was about fifty feet wide and you couldn’t see very far into it and seeing through it was impossible.

There had been a rape in the parking lot, traced to a homeless man living in a makeshift tent in the strip of land. The city cut down all the undergrowth in the forested land and kicked out the homeless. Fortunately there was no public hearing and no notice, so the hysterical activists were presented with an accomplished fact that couldn’t be easily undone. But they reacted hysterically nonetheless.

I suspect that the current city leadership would not cut down the trees. After all, it was just a citizen endangered. Nothing important was threatened.


5 posted on 03/03/2018 2:46:36 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: nickcarraway
After Trump was elected, I told a friend to watch for the reemergence of the homeless.

I based this on the observation that the day GW Bush was sworn into office, homelessness became a national issue.

Homelessness barely registered while Clinton was in office but it suddenly became prominent in the final months of the Bush/Gore election.

I remember it distinctly because there was a dramatic increase in the number of news stories.

It clearly wasn't a coincidence. It was a coordinated attack.

Likewise, as soon as Obama became president, the homeless disappeared.

What was really remarkable was that even after the greatest number of home foreclosures since the depression, there were no mainstream news reports about the rise in the homeless population.

They cycle of reporting is obvious.

Trump will be blamed for the rise in homeless.

6 posted on 03/03/2018 2:54:45 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: nickcarraway

40 TONS of garbage is a hell of a lot of garbage! a public nuisance/danger anywhere it accumulates


7 posted on 03/03/2018 2:55:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: nickcarraway
"The city required all campers to move out of San Lorenzo Park and shifted them over to a newly-opened encampment on River Street."

And they'll be looking for another place to shift them in four months time.

8 posted on 03/03/2018 2:56:25 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: oldasrocks

“I’ll Be Back”


9 posted on 03/03/2018 2:56:43 PM PST by donna (Old PSA: It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?)
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To: oldasrocks

“So where did they move the homeless people too?”

Homeless people don’t “move”. They RETURN to the same spot. The City of L/A/ LAPD does this at Skid Row every 2 weeks complete with hazmat teams. You’d think you were watching a Sci Fi movie. These vermin, I mean homeless poor souls are content pitching their tents and living off the grid.


10 posted on 03/03/2018 2:56:58 PM PST by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Locally, one of the homeless camps in dense woods is behind several private businesses because there is a stream back there.
An equipment business which is fenced in happened to have an old RV in back. When the owner started to prep the RV for a family member to use, naturally he found squatters living in it. Gross.


11 posted on 03/03/2018 3:00:15 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: nickcarraway; All
Go to youtube and search: "Name of City" homeless.

Portland, LA, Seattle, New York, etc.

Be sure to bookmark all the youtube videos that were PRE-Trump to document this didn't begin when Trump took office.

12 posted on 03/03/2018 3:01:04 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: oldasrocks

3rd para gives a hint


13 posted on 03/03/2018 3:01:14 PM PST by deport
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To: mass55th

“And they’ll be looking for another place to shift them in four months time.”

Death Valley?


14 posted on 03/03/2018 3:09:10 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
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To: oldasrocks

A different article said that most were placed in motels. Guess who is paying?


15 posted on 03/03/2018 3:12:55 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: oldasrocks

Soylent Green


16 posted on 03/03/2018 3:20:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement o fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

they need to run a bunch of chickens through there for a few days to scratch out the lice and other bugs left behind


17 posted on 03/03/2018 3:21:16 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: yesthatjallen
Yes, the left is predictable at blame shifting and credit thievery.

That aside, one wonders why are there so many "homeless"?

Truth told, one suspects that Mister Obama's eight years of alleged presidency is behind much of the homeless explosion.

One suspects that Obama's policies on high taxes, medical stupidity, oppressive business rules, and massive illegal (and legal) immigration have made full-time, US Citizen employees a toxic luxury.

Dems and their policies are quite good at creating these human tragedies; and one does not notice any remorse.

Other reasons for homelessness of course exist, including substance abuse, mental illness, ill health (sadly including Hep A), running from the law, and that some folks do not seem to desire anything beyond "free stuff".

18 posted on 03/03/2018 3:35:20 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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You know what's hilarious? No one from the left-wing environmental groups spoke out against this. There were no environmental volunteers or big-moneyed people like Tom Steyer who donated money and helped with the cleanup or to even provide sanitary needs to the homeless when they were there.

Just more proof that the environmental movement is simply another avenue towards communism.

19 posted on 03/03/2018 4:55:58 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: nickcarraway

So now, that many tons of trash will be in, near and around hotel rooms supplied by the taxpayer, who will eventually
end up footing the bill for trash
removal? One thousand pounds of bull
crap, spread over 20 acres, is still
one thousand pounds of bull crap.


20 posted on 03/03/2018 11:03:19 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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