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State Chapters => State Politics/Government => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 30, 2019, 03:10:18 pm
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2019 Darwin Award Winner: Power Washing Sidewalks is Racist in Seattle
Steven Ahle August 28, 2019
Seattle, Washington, like many other liberal cities have a growing homeless problem and their streets have become toilets, with human feces everywhere.
The city council is trying to figure out the best way to clear it from their streets.
The problem is that Democrats cannot come up with a solution that pleases everyone. In Seattle, liberalism has run wild and it affects the brain cells of local politicians.
The most logical way to clean the streets is using power washers and pushing the water down storm and sewer drains.
https://steadfastandloyal.com/politics/2019-darwin-award-winner-power-washing-sidewalks-is-racist-in-seattle/
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So, Seattle will allow unsanitary conditions and dangerous diseases to fester only because one of the methods required to eliminate the danger reminds one person of an utterly unrelated historical use of an equally unrelated object.
What is the word for "government by irrational and uneducable children"?
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Moving to state government category.
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Another council member, Claudia Balducci, suggested that the county consider using social-service employees in partnership with police.
If these out of touch morons think that government workers and Cops are going to take time out of their workday to clean shit off the sidewalk, well I can tell you right now that's never going to happen.
What if Council Members get off their butts and actually contribute something to society by cleaning sidewalks. That's another thing that will never happen.
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I see a problem with the "solution": Washing the poop down the storm sewers will create a serious bacterial problem in the ocean near the outlets. Beaches will have to be closed to swimmers.
The answer is to crack down on the poopers.
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Ahem! It's only August, and SF or LA or Baltimore or AOC or Biden or ... may yet steal this award.
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I see a problem with the "solution": Washing the poop down the storm sewers will create a serious bacterial problem in the ocean near the outlets. Beaches will have to be closed to swimmers.
Estuarine fisheries would likely have to be closed due to bacteria counts as well.
The answer is to crack down on the poopers.
Well, that's easy enough!
Ban A$$h*les!
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I see a problem with the "solution": Washing the poop down the storm sewers will create a serious bacterial problem in the ocean near the outlets. Beaches will have to be closed to swimmers.
The answer is to crack down on the poopers.
You answer is the correct one, but I'm not sure that the bacterial load from washing down the sidewalks after the homeless crap on them will really represent a sufficiently great increase from what already gets into them with run-off to pose a health risk. There are rats, squirrels, birds, and dogs crapping all over the place in an urban environment, too. And, this is Seattle, we're talking about, where it rains all the time. The human waste is making it into the storm sewers already, just not in an expeditious enough fashion to result in clean sidewalks.
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You answer is the correct one, but I'm not sure that the bacterial load from washing down the sidewalks after the homeless crap on them will really represent a sufficiently great increase from what already gets into them with run-off to pose a health risk. There are rats, squirrels, birds, and dogs crapping all over the place in an urban environment, too. And, this is Seattle, we're talking about, where it rains all the time. The human waste is making it into the storm sewers already, just not in an expeditious enough fashion to result in clean sidewalks.
Interesting observations. So, I wonder if the human waste is significant enough?
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Interesting observations. So, I wonder if the human waste is significant enough?
How much poo do you want in the water you swim in?
How much do you want the fish and shellfish you consume to filter out?
I have known waterways to be closed to the harvest of fish and shellfish over this very issue.
https://water-research.net/index.php/fecal-coliform-bacteria-in-water (https://water-research.net/index.php/fecal-coliform-bacteria-in-water)
Considering the amount of drug use among homeless populations, the potential for some really nasty pathogens to be present exists. That said, washing that material off sidewalks might warrant protective equipment..
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How much poo do you want in the water you swim in?
How much do you want the fish and shellfish you consume to filter out?
I have known waterways to be closed to the harvest of fish and shellfish over this very issue.
https://water-research.net/index.php/fecal-coliform-bacteria-in-water (https://water-research.net/index.php/fecal-coliform-bacteria-in-water)
Considering the amount of drug use among homeless populations, the potential for some really nasty pathogens to be present exists. That said, washing that material off sidewalks might warrant protective equipment..
Lots of people I know won't do "public water." No pools, nor beaches, and it's for this reason.
As for the hoser detail, I'd say most certainly protective gear. I'd close off the sidewalk/street under cleaning from the public, too. Overspray.
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Lots of people I know won't do "public water." No pools, nor beaches, and it's for this reason.
As for the hoser detail, I'd say most certainly protective gear. I'd close off the sidewalk/street under cleaning from the public, too. Overspray.
(https://www.rshughes.com/api/media-view.url?id=577eb9092617b362aea2b3eef0a8bb16fa0d2137&format=wm-700-550-xx)
Yes, close it off, aerosolized pathogens could be nasty for anyone in range.
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It's too bad Mike Rowe doesn't do "Dirty Jobs" anymore, this would be a killer episode.
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It's too bad Mike Rowe doesn't do "Dirty Jobs" anymore, this would be a killer episode.
It'd be a great reason to quit....
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I see a problem with the "solution": Washing the poop down the storm sewers will create a serious bacterial problem in the ocean near the outlets. Beaches will have to be closed to swimmers.
The answer is to crack down on the poopers.
It will probably take a little lot of both.
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It'd be a great reason to quit....
Yeah, but county jail and public service sentences from judges... a captive labor force...
and sure to reduce petty crime...
I would sure think twice.
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BTW, this isn't really a "Darwin Award" story. No childless person was killed or became sterile because of a stupid action.
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BTW, this isn't really a "Darwin Award" story. No childless person was killed or became sterile because of a stupid action.
Hope does spring eternal... :whistle: