Sunday 11 February 2007

Chris Farley Would Be Relieved


So when you're living in a van down by the river, what's a fella to do?

Except most of the fellas living down by the river in Calgary don't use these. They just go.....well....everywhere. It's so bad here, city council has just passed a "no pooping" law. No kidding. And, of course, the bleeding hearts are condemning it as an attack on our most vulnerable citizens.

Most vulnerable?

I wonder if any of them have tried walking through our downtown parks lately. Do they understand how intimidating it is to have dozens of these vulnerable citizens stare you up and down as their next meal ticket? It's too bad that many citizens have essentially abandoned our parks to the homeless.

To top it off, rather than dealing with this problem (other than passing the aforementioned "Don't Poop and Scoot" law) all through our parks we have these little blue porta potties everywhere. Nothing says picnic better than an aroma wafting from one of these blue babies.

And that concludes our regularly scheduled whining.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's unbelievable...and sad. I keep having this vision of me walking through one of these parks, only to come across some guy squatting down...going for a dump...right there...like a dog...looking up at me with that "whatya lookin' at"-look on his face.
I can just imagine a family or some couple saying something like..."hey, I know, let's go for a walk today...and we can go anywhere we want to...except the park".