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Friday, August 18, 2006

Solution: Homeless Sleep In Public Restrooms

Posted by on August 18 at 14:51 PM

Don’t sleep near piss or poop. In a measure aimed at the city’s homeless people, a new Las Vegas ordinance makes it illegal to sleep near urine or feces “unless the deposit is made in an appropriate sanitary facility”.
However, Las Vegas City Attorney Brad Jerbic says passing the law was a mistake and that city officials will contact law enforcement personnel and tell them not to enforce it.
“They don’t enforce it until we train them to, anyway,” Jerbic said.

Wow, now there’s a training process I’d be curious to watch.


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This type of law would never fly in Germany!!

I just wish we could train the homeless people who use our bathrooms to not shit all over the floor and walls and not wipe it around even more with the remnants of their clothing and then jam them into the drains. Seriously, it's nasty and fucked up. Shit everywhere, a inch of piss on the floor, foul water leaking into the garage. It happens every goddamn week, and I'm tired of it.

That's the dumbest thing I have heard all day. 500 ft? In a park? No wonder they will ignore it... but really, how did it end up in the law? Like what, he had the intern author the document or what?

What the fuck kind of stupid, bullshit law is that?

Geez, I'm glad I moved away from that frothing pack of dumbshits.

Here's your answer. Take a headcount, build a ton of shelters, spend a ton of money on services... then ban panhandling and squatting.

It's like the old saying goes, you can make your shit but you can't lay in it.

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