Posted on 10/07/2011 3:08:57 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom monitor. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street, who are encamped in a nearby park, have been tromping in by the scores, and not because they are hungry.
Ms. Tzortzatos’s tolerance for the newcomers finally vanished when the sink was broken and fell to the floor. She installed a $200 lock on the bathroom to thwart nonpaying customers, angering the protesters.
“I’m looked at as the enemy of the people,” she said.
The anticorporate participants in Occupy Wall Street, which is currently in its third week, say they have no intention of leaving soon. The protest has been building in size, with sister demonstrations erupting in other cities, and politicians, labor leaders and celebrities adding their support. But for many neighborhood businesses, the protest’s end cannot come soon enough. In interviews, they said they were especially annoyed that the organizers of the grass-roots movement neglected to include portable toilets in their plan to bring down Wall Street.
Residents, too, say they are losing patience.
Mothers have grown weary of navigating strollers through the maze of barricades that have sprouted along the streets. Toddlers have been roused from sleep just after bedtime by chanting and pounding drums.
Heather Amato, 35, a psychologist who lives near the protest area, said she felt disturbed by some of the conduct of the protesters. She said she had to shield her toddler from the sight of women at the park dancing topless.
“It’s been three weeks now,” Ms. Amato said. “Enough is enough.”
Local politicians have expressed sympathy for the residents’ complaints, even as they try to avoid offending the protesters.
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The filthy marxists appear to be jumping the shark.
“Local politicians have expressed sympathy for the residents’ complaints, even as they try to avoid offending the protesters....”
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Liberal scum, liberal mentality, liberal filth, liberal pandering, liberal state and city, and liberal politicians.
What did anyone expect? (I left out the anti-American funding of these maggots)
Gads..topless liberal women..can there be anything worse?
LOL..and what happened in that bathroom that brought the entire sink down? Other reports of crap on the floor of bathrooms. Liberal hordes can’t even hit the stupid toilet. What a mess.....rotflol!
tax paying residents and freeloading protesters
Here are some more choice tidbits:
Mr. Bloomberg responded: “We are trying to deal with this in a way that doesn’t make the problem grow and protects everybody’s rights. There are no easy solutions here.”
Several businesses said they had no choice but to respond to the influx of protesters by closing bathrooms.
Mike Keane, who owns O’Hara’s Restaurant and Pub, said that theft of bathroom soap and toilet paper had skyrocketed and that one protester used the bathroom but failed to properly use the toilet.
Both Ms. Tzortzatos, owner of Panini & Co., and Mr. Keane said that the protesters rarely bought anything, yet hurled curses when they were told that only paying customers could use their bathrooms.
Steve Zamfotis, manager of another nearby store, Steve’s Pizza, said: “They are pests. They go to the bathroom and don’t even buy a cup of coffee.”
Mr. Zamfotis said he closed his bathroom after it repeatedly flooded from protesters’ bathing there.
Liberalism in action folks. Keep voting Democrat, New Yorkers.
If any of these shop owners didn’t vote Baraqqi, I feel sorry for them.
Gads..topless liberal women..can there be anything worse?
A solid Republican voter is born.
Couldn’t organize well enough to bring in a few portapotties?
This is just one big adolescent temper tantrum.
The police need to go after these dope-smoking, maggot infested pieces of human excrement with water cannons — one filled with soapy water and one filled with clear water. If they don’t melt, maybe they will scatter.
Bingo! Just a bunch of puerile Peter Pans.
NYC is a Democrat sympathizing and voting stronghold. I hope they see more of the inane futility of the typical Democrat message and practice. They deserve it; they voted for it.
These filthy Marxist douchebags are damn lucky that Rudolph Giuliani is no longer the Mayor of NYC.
Maybe they’d have better luck finding employment if they learned how to use a toilet properly. Just a suggestion.
Though New York is a blue state (and the City bluer than blue), I have sympathy for these business owners. Perhaps they will notice all of the democrat politicians that have announced support for these filthy, socialist hippies and make New York a bit less blue in the next election.
They’ll get bored soon enough and won’t endure the winter. Liberal “passions” are like that you know. Like the wind, blowing hot and cold, but mostly blowing.
Man how times change. Forty-one years ago I was in the 8th. grade. I remember a big bunch of hippies did this kind of thing on Wall St. and hundreds of construction workers, union guys all of ‘em, came flooding into the area and beat the living crap out of the hippies. Yeah, how times have changed.
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