Wednesday, May 04, 2005

More Crazy Cantabrigians

The total annihilation of common sense and personal responsibility continues unabated in the Bay State. From the Cambridge TAB comes this delightful tale of enlightenment from the left bank of the Charles. This story is so wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin.

Feces still litter park

Six months after they started finding foul litter at a Cambridge Common playground, Harvard Square preschool teachers say they continue to find human feces, used tampons and other dirty items scattered about the play structures.


Gee, a bunch of out-of-touch, feel-good, hippy-dippy liberals go out of their way to make the homeless feel "at home" in their community, and then they get all bent out of shape when the homeless treat part of their "home" like a toilet? What on earth did they think would happen?

Last fall, some preschoolers were smeared with feces after recess, sparking an outcry from several parents. While most stressed that they weren't blaming the homeless, they still had concerns about their child's safety. Several used hypodermic needles were found in the tot lot as well.


And, of course, no one will go on record and blame the homeless people who are doing the actual defecating here. Why, that might offend them. I mean, all they're doing - for all intents and purposes - is shitting on your children. Where's the harm in that? Come on, people, let's show a little compassion toward the residentially-challenged here. A little celebrating of diversity, if you will. After all, it's only organic fecal matter. Organic's good, right? Think of it as fertilizer for the flowers. We can't be anti-flower now, can we?

Gerlinde Hossain-Endl, the director of Bigelow, also doesn't blame the homeless population, who have few public restroom options, but wishes a common solution could be found.


And where, exactly, are we supposed to place the blame for this?

"We recognize that the homeless have to go somewhere, and we don't want to build a wall around a public ground," she said. "As a society, we all create the situation for homeless people ... but we also want our kids to have clean playgrounds."


Ahhh, yes, it's society's fault that these people can't find a dumpster, or a remote alleyway, a river, or (God forbid) a TOILET to go take a dump in. It's our evil capitalist "society", driven no doubt by the utter failings of the Bush=Satan/Hitler/Monkey Administration, that is responsible for these people pinching loaf on your children's swingsets.

Fucking Cambridge idiots.