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With restrooms closed by shutdown, problems pile up at Minnesota state parks
pioneer press ^ | 7-13-11 | dave orrick

Posted on 07/13/2011 6:05:02 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

While such parks normally are bustling with people - and have facilities to serve them - the relative seclusion appears to have emboldened some to do their business along trails and other areas where no Minnesotan would normally dare to squat.

"People are taking it upon themselves to go out in the woods and relieve themselves, and without the presence of employees and others, they're not picking up after themselves," Konrad said. "People are also having a tendency not to pick up after their pets."

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bear; dayton; doody; doom; eow; parks; poop; restrooms; shutdown; woods
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To: ctdonath2

Shutdown Prevents Wis. Couple From Bringing Baby Home

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/07/13/shutdown-prevents-wis-couple-from-bringing-baby-home/

“you can check out any time you want,but you can never leave...”

we’re doomed.


21 posted on 07/13/2011 6:29:59 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Vermont Lt

Nonsense. You have been punked by the bureaucracy. They have got you blaming your fellow citizen instead of them now.


22 posted on 07/13/2011 6:31:32 AM PDT by ngat
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To: cripplecreek
Without tooting my own horn, it is a good idea, and not just for latrine duty. Tea partiers in every state ought to be drawing up lists of members who can do jobs if their state goes in the cr@pper.
23 posted on 07/13/2011 6:32:04 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: WOBBLY BOB
With restrooms closed by shutdown, problems pile up at Minnesota state parks

Ok, I guess things are "piling" up. This headline needs flies buzzing aroud it.

24 posted on 07/13/2011 6:32:25 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Some animals are more equal than others, eh?


25 posted on 07/13/2011 6:33:48 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: WOBBLY BOB

It’s shut down, right? What’s stopping them?


26 posted on 07/13/2011 6:34:51 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: mewzilla

Can you imagine the rage it would inspire in the left to see Tea Party Adopt A Highway signs along the road?

Plus it really is a practice what we preach approach to some of our problems.


27 posted on 07/13/2011 6:38:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Vermont Lt

Yeah, this speaks to a person’s character how you deal with your doo-doo when no one is policing you or cleaning the latrines. Those who proceed without cleaning up after themselves or their pets are not real campers.


28 posted on 07/13/2011 6:38:10 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: WOBBLY BOB

find a tree to go on.


29 posted on 07/13/2011 6:41:22 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Boo-freakin-hoo. People can’t go to the park while the state tries to resolve a fiscal crisis. I hope and pray the American people aren’t so addicted to government that they would be up in arms about not being able to go to a park. If they are, we truly are doomed. Just jack all taxes up to 100% and shred the Constitution.


30 posted on 07/13/2011 6:41:36 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: cripplecreek

As for the unions, let ‘em try to stop volunteers from scrubbing toilets. That’ll make great PR :)


31 posted on 07/13/2011 6:44:20 AM PDT by mewzilla
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32 posted on 07/13/2011 6:44:39 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: ctdonath2
Don’t shut down operations which are, or could be, self-funding.

One of the first things to go off line in the gov shutdown was license sales from the DNR; no fishing, hunting or trapping licenses sold. so the chief source of revenue for the department and not a small source of income generated from tourists is gone. But have no fear, the Minnesota DNR will continue to provide the following services:


33 posted on 07/13/2011 6:47:51 AM PDT by conservonator (Shakes head, walks away.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Watching the mighty state of Minnesota from afar with admiration, and envy...

34 posted on 07/13/2011 6:49:23 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Proud ticket holder: "The Undefeated")
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To: WOBBLY BOB
When I was a girl.....
Wooden latrines with holes in the ground-
And no fancy shmancy company had to come and suck the things clean.
They needed NO maintenance. We need good ol fashion wooden out houses, and everyone keep their own toilet paper with them.
35 posted on 07/13/2011 6:55:00 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Decadence is a bitch, isn't it!

Western Civilization is decadent. Most fools don't know what that means. They're too lazy or too stupid to learn from history.

Unless this decadence is reversed, it's going to get worse--much worse--much faster! And reversing the decadence means--of utmost importance--unshackling the economy and allowing it to soar.

Defecation in public places is nothing compared to what's to come.

Wait until typhoid breaks out.

And then cholera.

And then smallpox raises its horrifying head in an unvaccinated population.

And the people and their governments are too DECADENT--too disorganized and too poor to fight against them.

And crime becomes rife, and the police are ineffective.

And the people who were stupid enough and lazy enough to let all this happen are wondering what hit them.

And it gets worse!

Shall I go on?

36 posted on 07/13/2011 6:56:41 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Tea Party: La Resistance)
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To: MrB

Yes, I’ve been saying that for awhile now...

They hold the gun to our heads in the form of cutting safety services, police, fire, military anything that cause us to be uncomfortable. 0bama’s threat to senior citizens is just such a tactic. Will he do it, just to prove his point...you betcha’ he will.

They have done this for years and for whatever reason we’ve more or less always taken the bait.


37 posted on 07/13/2011 7:11:27 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: Beaten Valve

If I saw a bear in the woods, I’d be the one doing the sh****g.


38 posted on 07/13/2011 7:12:55 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: WOBBLY BOB

This should be breaking news.

After the election of Franken I was certain that Minnesotans no longer gave a s#!t.


39 posted on 07/13/2011 7:13:36 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: EBH

A caller to Rush gave us something the right could do if 0bama pulls that trigger:

detail all the programs, policies, and departments that ARE getting paid instead of the vital services and SS checks.

I say they do this NOW. Give a detail of the numbers of government employees and what they’re doing and what they’re getting paid. Detail what checks are going out to study the mating habits of the northbound fruitfly, etc.


40 posted on 07/13/2011 7:19:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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