Posted on 09/19/2012 5:12:44 PM PDT by shadeaud
A Texas restaurant owner is up in arms after Corpus Christi city officials informed him he can no longer wash the bird poop off the sidewalk in front of his business — not unless he wants a $2,000 fine, KRIS-TV reported.
John Webb, general manager of Crawdaddy’s in downtown Corpus Christi, told the station he’s been hosing the sidewalk down for 18 years. That is, until city officials told him earlier this month he was breaking the law. The reason? A city storm water ordinance that bars anyone from washing pollutants, like bird poop, into the storm drain system that leads out to the bay — with a $2,000 a day fine for violations.
“If I can’t wash my sidewalk off what am I supposed to do? I’m at a loss at how to clean this up,” Webb told KRIS. “Now I’m stuck with having dirty sidewalks and this bird poop. It’s nasty.”
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Yeah, bird poop is so much worse than the dumpster across the street that’s draining to the road, and the oil from the cars that gets washed in every time it rains.
Orange County, Florida passed an ordinance that you could not fertilize your own yard within so many hours of a forecasted storm (which if you know Florida summers means pretty much every day) unless you had taken their fertlizer education class. Gov’t gone insane.
http://www.cctexas.com/?fuseaction=main.view&page=425
last slide of the info thing. They dump it in the cities natural water ways.
Earlier in it they even say the treatment plant does what streams and lakes use to do.
FFS do they even know what the white foam is that sometimes builds up along the shore line? (if you don’t google saltwater protein skimmer)
Shoot the pigeons.....
Lower fines.....
This is not the Texas way. Corpus is probably run by old burnt out hippies like Austin has been in the past.
how much you want to bet those “professionals” have to be trained and licensed by the city?
follow the money. It’ll always lead you to the source.
Its probably grackles. The crappinist nasty bird in Texas.
I see the problem in your link. Look up, he is the only business flying the American Flag. We can’t have that going on without some form of punishment.
Best idea I’ve heard of in months.
However, he would have to change the word “shit” to “crap” in order to avoid a fine for vulgarity.
These Aholes want money and will do anything to get it.
There are sectors of Texas where liberal aholes run things. Houston is one, Austin another.
Maybe Gov. Perry could do some real house-cleaning.
at first I thought he was drunk.
Look close, he’s playing on his phone.
It’s a health risk to let the poop stay there. Guess the city never heard of Histoplasmosis.
Shhhhhhhhh . . . . don't tell Mom Nature about this. To avoid wracking up these stupid fines, she may end all rainfall in Corpus Christi.
Anyone who thinks politicians are smart needs to read this until they get it.
I never thought I would see this kind of stupidity in Texas.Environaziism, like other forms of liberalism, is a contagious disease.
And there you have it. I live in CC and the droppings from the seagulls are overpowering. Go to Cole park (Downtown on the Bay) and watch city employees using power washers to clean the swings and jungle gym. But a decades long businessman can’t do the same thing? Mercy!
We have WNV in CC. Killed a couple folks.
Correct! No doubt! Guaranteed!
That’s what it would cost for a bipartisan socialist member of the political class to leave it on the sidewalk.
I moved away from Minnesota to get away from this kind of stupidity.
What we saw of Corpus Christi a few years ago, the whole town could stand to be washed down (humidity nothwithstanding). What allowances are made for the aquarium along the coast and the battleship?
Have all the myriads of government employees put little corks in all the birds.
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