Comments on: Susan Ornelas: Achieving Public Toiletude – June 29, 2010

By: Tom Vanciel

Tom Vanciel — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:55:45 +0000

Are you nuts…

This is a public health issue…

It is the Citys responsability to provide this nessecary service…

You will hire a MAINTENANCE PERSON TO CLEAN THE TIOLET ….

This job is more important than your city manager or police chief….

Tom

By: kevpod

kevpod — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:23:26 +0000

Robert, as Mark told you one time, you’re going to have to step up your game here. We’ve been having some content-rich conversations in the Comments section, and that’s what it’s for. When you come along with snippy slogans, you just take up space and bore me.

So this is your notice. If you have something interesting to say, bring it. Otherwise take the noise to the blogs, where they thrive on small-bore sniping.

By: Robert Benson

Robert Benson — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:44:32 +0000

If socio-economic status was added to the hate crimes classifications, half of Ar Qaeda would be in prison.

By: Mark Sailors

Mark Sailors — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:16:59 +0000

“The “insane” should be institutionalized. There are countless resources available to the “homeless.” ”

Thank Ronald Reagan for emptying the mental health care facilities. It is also illegal to institutionalize someone that is not a danger to themselves or others.

“BTW, I don’t know how many “third world” public toilets Ms. Ornelas has been to, but I’ve seen scores in a dozen countries from Central America to Asia (not to mention NYC). Cleanliness? Ms. Ornelas, you are kidding us, right? Perhaps you forgot to remove the rosy lenses when you entered.”

A dirty public toilet is by far better than having to clean human feces from my yard, or the streets. We tried human waste in the streets once, it was called the dark ages.

By: enufalreddy

enufalreddy — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:05:17 +0000

@Mr.Z: As my mother used to say, “Why didn’t you go before we left the house?”

@sanecitzen: OK, “human vermin” There, I fixed it. The “insane” should be institutionalized. There are countless resources available to the “homeless.” The “wayward?” WTF? Is that a new class of people the taxpayers are supposed to take care of? How about we give the “wayward” a chit that allows them to come shit in your toilet, eat your food, crash in your yard?. If Downtown Arcata wasn’t already infested, a public pay toilet, properly attended, might be feasible. Alas, it seems far too late for that.

BTW, I don’t know how many “third world” public toilets Ms. Ornelas has been to, but I’ve seen scores in a dozen countries from Central America to Asia (not to mention NYC). Cleanliness? Ms. Ornelas, you are kidding us, right? Perhaps you forgot to remove the rosy lenses when you entered.

By: Dukdog

Dukdog — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:39:57 +0000

Well said Enufalreddy! The taxpayers of the welfare state of Arcata shouldn’t be on the hook for paying the pooper!

If there was only some way to tax the grow houses in town, the town would be flush enough to mitigate the problem before it really hits the fan!

Times really haven’t changed so much, when the railroad ran through town, the passenger car toilets used to flush directly onto the railbed. Not much different than what’s happening now. Different Day, Same shit!

By: sanecitizen

sanecitizen — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:26:28 +0000

“The vermin”? How much money or connections do you require [enufalreddy] before the homeless, wayward, and insane are considered real people to you? I understand the concerns(…in a primitive, fear-driven way), but those are probable possibilities that should be addressed by giving them some basic respect and allowing them simple dignities like the right to use a bathroom, whereas the inevitability of having to defecate is certain. To ignore an identifiable and solvable problem is to make acceptable the consequences.

By: Mr.Z

Mr.Z — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:33:38 +0000

Well, it would be nice if the need to poop or pee didn’t become a crisis every time that I am near the plaza. Would that not be nice?

By: enufalreddy

enufalreddy — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:18:42 +0000

“Progressive” Arcata is already a third world cesspool. Why not give the vermin a place to shit other than in the entranceway to the donut shop? Give them some privacy to smoke crack and shoot up. The Silly Council spent hundreds of hours on this brilliant idea a few years ago, when Meserve was wasting the People’s time and money. Will you people never go away?