The Occupy Los Angeles cleanup was an absolutely disgusting experience for sanitation workers. Los Angeles actually welcomed the Occupy folks and tried to work with the protestors, but the protestors just could not act like civilized human beings. They filled the park with human waste and trash and made it a health hazard.
"Sanitation workers wearing hazmat suits and masks moved into City Hall park Wednesday to clean up tons of trash, debris and human waste after police evicted the 2-month-old Occupy LA tent camp and arrested almost 300 people in a mostly non-violent pre-dawn raid," reports Mercury News.
The Occupy Los Angeles cleanup is a prime example of why these camps need to be shut down. There is absolutely nothing wrong with protesting banks and big business, but destroying public parks is animal behavior. Actually, no, animals behave better.
One can only hope that those that had to deal with cleaning up the aftermath were able to do so safely.
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Which in California, it just means more debt and/or productive people leaving.
I've read elsewhere that the Occupy LA protesters had a Sanitation working group and a "leave no trace" pledge to try to ensure the park was in the same (or better) condition when they left than when they started the Occupation. Since they were forcibly evicted from the park, obviously they couldn't clean up and take their stuff with them.
According to the article you linked to, the only reference to "human waste" was a comment by the sanitation superintendent who said that the bottles of urine they found were "probably the biggest hazard there."
I suppose the notion of people urinating in bottles might upset particularly squeamish people, but it's a fairly common practice among hikers and campers.
Based on that before-and-after picture in that LA Times article you linked to, it looks like a fairly neat and tidy encampment to me.
I am always shocked by how much hate and intolerance people willingly spew, in an effort to score points with someone. In this case? Gather points.
Great example to set for your friends, and your kids. We all want to raise up intolerant children, don't we?
According to a list prepared by unnamed County staff, with no evidence linking the alleged "poop" to the Occupy camp.
And according to Tim Fillmore, program manager at City of Santa Cruz Environmental Health, "We have not had any recent complaints about human feces behind the Vet’s Hall in Santa Cruz and we have not investigated such a complaint."
do you know what 200 pounds of poop looks like or smells like? Even horses in a week's time do not have 200 pounds of poop amongst themselves.
Human poop weighs less than a pound, and only poops out less than a half a pound a day, about 1/3, and if liquidy, than about the weight of a small cup of coffee..so for there to be 200 pounds of poop, you would have had over 5000 people pooping at least 50 times a day.
Plus the stench of 200 pounds of poop would have had overcome everyone, and the chemical reaction would have cost some people death...yes, each person's poop has chemicals in it, and a mixture would have caused a chemical reaction.
Plus there would have been horseflies, maggots, snails ect. which would also have caused serious illness's and possible death.
So please, before spreading poop around, know what you are speaking about.
*yes, I know about poop...lol....during autopsy classes we actually had to learn about poop...