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Sin City scrubs shitty statute

Posted 09.25.2006 by GottaGoGirl
Attention all hobos, tramps, bums, bag ladies, and shopping cart people: the public parks and recreation areas in Vegas want you back! While you are NOT permitted to pee or poop there, please feel free once again to set up camp -- or "squat", if you will.

The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday dumped a rule that made it a misdemeanor to sleep within five hundred feet of a deposit of urine or feces. This is a reversal of part of an ordinance discussed previously here at PoopReport -- one that faced ridicule from civil libertarians. Council members claimed it was "mistakenly" included in a broader ordinance that banned public urination and defecation. This latest poop and pee ordinance was passed unanimously by the City Council; the statute against actually perpetrating the pee or poop still stands.

Back in August, Vegas City Attorney Brad Jerbic said that rules on setting up camp near bodily deposits would be considered separately, but nothing has reached the recommending committee yet.

I still don't get why the city would bother worrying about it. If it's illegal to pee or poop in public anyway, how are you going to nail someone for setting up camp NEAR an unauthorized "deposit" of bodily waste? How do you PROVE that a deposit is human? Would they need to? Does dog poop count? What about bird poop? Rabbit poop? Squirrel poop? Rattlesnake poop? Surely ANYWHERE a vagrant sets up camp in an open area is less than five hundred feet from SOME deposit of urine or feces.

Wouldn't it be easier to pass a law that makes it illegal to camp in those areas at all? Why involve poop? Doesn't poop have enough to worry about? I'm thinking that the poop aspect of this is a way to discourage transients from roosting but without overtly singling out the indigent. By appearing to be concerned with public health and safety, is Las Vegas covertly addressing their vagabond problem through the back door?

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Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 09.25.2006

You're right. If they really want to harass homeless people, why not be more direct about it? Just ban them or leave them alone. Why drag poop into it?

daphne (3512) -- 09.26.2006

Just for once, I'd like these city officials, ALL of them across the US, get together to explain just where these people are expected to go. No one has an answer, at least no one in any type of office now. All I ever see is "they can't sleep here". Well, then, where?

I would just like to see some answers and some progress. Some of these people are war veterans, the same ones that are supposed to be enjoying retirement for defending their country in a war they didn't even want to fight. Some are mentally ill. They are not all lazy drug addicts.

The whole situation makes me feel sad and helpless, but it's still an excellent report, GGG, because it shows the continuity of now one actually doing anything positive, which is where the problem lies.

Oh yeah, since the Olympics will be "upstate" in a few years, I wonder if the same bullshit that happened in Atlanta will happen again - that these homeless and "undesirables" will be shipped out of their own city.
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SamDamnit (1192) -- 09.26.2006

Thank God! Now I can go to Vegas and sleep near poop again.
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Bilgepump (1629) -- 09.26.2006

I would like to know which city official is responsible for detecting and noting, human feces from dog feces, from squirell, rabbit, coyote, cat, raccoon, and goose feces? Moreover, can I get that job?

Fart Poopie (1254) -- 09.26.2006

Some homeless people choose that lifestyle. There's something about not being tied down to any one place, not having to pay bills, and having the world as your toilet that appeals enough to those few that the negative aspects aren't enough to deter them.

daphne (3512) -- 09.26.2006

Bilgepump, I can tell the difference between those poops. Believe me, with the exception of dog to coyote, I know them all!


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Bilgepump (1629) -- 09.26.2006

Well, Daph, what are you waiting for??? Vegas needs you!!! And I'll only be 70 miles away!!!
Mr. Daph, yourself, and yours truly would have a terrific time!!

No wait...I didn't mean it like that...sheesh!!!

SamDamnit (1192) -- 09.27.2006

I'm with Daphne. I could tell all those poops apart. Even the coyote poop would be a bit different than the dog poop, becuase of their diets. I bet you would find more rodent skeletons in the coyote poop.
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