Costs, impact tallied at end of Rainbows (Rainbow Family hippies in Colorado)

Denver Post ^ | 7-9-06 | Steve Lipsher

[dynachrome]

The Yampa Valley Medical Center will have provided more than $100,000 in medical care that probably won't be repaid.

The Routt County Humane Society scrambled to vaccinate dozens of dogs after an outbreak of the deadly parvovirus, and officials fear there could be as many as 200 pets abandoned.

And the Forest Service, which spent nearly $800,000 just for its incident-management team, will be left with the task of rehabilitating the land.

Numerous Rainbows are staying behind to help with site recovery, but it could take years for Big Red Park to look normal again.

[dynachrome]

This is a followup to my post yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1662525/posts

[Publius]

Cartman was right.

[bray]

Free Love

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Steely Tom]

Clickable.

[dynachrome]

Thanks.

[bkepley]

The worst part is that when they came here they stayed.

[Doctor Raoul]

At an anti-Bush protest in northern NJ, the liberals just trashed the penned in area they were assigned for their protest.

We conservatives, all 5 of us didn't have to stand in the pen, mainly because the liberals kept threatening violence.

Anyway as they were leaving, you could see how badly they soiled their nest. Virtually anything in their hands at the end of their protest was dropped to the ground. So using my bullhorn, I made this announcement, "I understand that George Bush is poisoning the planet, but could we please have the environmentalists come back and pick up their trash?" Made that plea a couple of times and received a lot of middle finger salutes...until one of the TV camera lights came on and then some more. Now it was a mad scramble to get back from the parking lot to be seen picking up. It was classic.

[Psycho_Bunny]

No surprise.  Everyone knows that hippies are, as a group, the biggest slobs on the face of the planet.

Except the hippies.  They're all lying to themselves about being human pigs.

I lived next to Seattle Center for 12 years.  I saw thousands of venue crowds come and go:  basketball fans, hockey fans, symphony and opera crowds....theatre crowds....rock concert crowds, etc etc....I've seen them all.

Consistently and without variation - year after year before the death of Jerry Garcia - the crowd that did the most damage, disrupted the local neighbor the most, and left the most litter in their wake, was the Deadhead hippie crowd.

They were so bad that I was literally happy at the news that Jerry Garcia had died.  My first thought was "Sweet!  We won't have to put up with the Pig People anymore!!!!"

[dynachrome]

'Sweet! We won't have to put up with the Pig People anymore!!!!"

Now we get the followers of the band "phish". They try to imitate the Deadheads, but do it poorly. Hope they don't come to your area.

[Kimmers]

Hippies smell....

[pointsal]

Isn't this a bunch of Gore-huggers???

[Lx]

Wasn't one of Phish's members caught taking some 'artistic' photos of some big biker's young (under 14 if I recall) daughter?

[pollyannaish]

I live near a somewhat elite leftist liberal arts college. There is a house down the street that rents to college students during the school year. Although the rest of the neighborhood is exceptionally tidy and well kept, the yard is an absolute disaster and the bushes full of trash.

For a long time I assumed it was the owners who just didn't take care of the place. Then one day they threw a party. A late model Honda parked next to our place. It was covered with militant environmental mantras, carelessly applied. A huge bunch of kids piled out and headed down the street. Several hours later, they returned to the car and dropped six bottles in the parking strip, along with several McDonald's/Burger King/Taco Bell bags.

If it was an isolated incident, I would just ignore it as a product of youthful irresponsibility. But in the 18 years we've lived here, various incarnations of the same event have happened over and over.

In the end, I figured that "saving the earth" isn't something THEY are responsible for, it's something everyone else needs to take care of for them. One more example of how leftists believe that what you say is more important than what you do.

[pollyannaish]

And one more thing...I'm pretty sure half of these kids would be thrilled to participate in any Anarchist event they could find. Protesting the evils of Honda, McDonald's, Burger Kind, Taco Bell and most deliciously ironic, Starbucks.

Sometimes, I wonder.

[USNBandit]

a more positive view was offered by Michael Zopf, director of the Routt County Department of Environmental Health.

"As far as we were concerned, they were good guests," Zopf said. "The environmental ethic that they live and that they practiced, at least in Routt County, was exemplary."

This is from yesterday's source article

There seems to be a huge disconnect. Maybe this guy hasn't gone out to the site.

[strategofr]

"Made that plea a couple of times and received a lot of middle finger salutes...until one of the TV camera lights came on and then some more. Now it was a mad scramble to get back from the parking lot to be seen picking up. It was classic."

Thanks.

[navyguy]

These hippie scum could learn a few things about keeping the outdoors clean from hunters and fisherman.

[dynachrome]

"caught taking some 'artistic' photos "
Didn't hear that one, but would not be surprising.

(nice tag line. If you aren't on Eveningstar's South Park ping list, consider signing up. Hail Xenu!)

[VanB]

Damn Hippies and their drum circles!! If you let them get started they'll get out of control. Then you'll have hippies everywhere.

[AnAmericanMother]

The Dean of Students might be interested in getting a note from the neighbors. Ditto local law enforcement.