L.A. bans public defecation (via Owen)
Well, I suppose this makes one less thing I can do when I finally make it to LA, eh?
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to make it illegal to urinate or defecate in public, a step many said was necessary to curb a growing problem of human waste on city streets.
Some advocates for the homeless were outraged. They accused elected officials of criminalizing an act that many homeless people often have no choice but to commit because of the lack of public toilets in Los Angeles, and said officials should instead spend their time trying to solve underlying social problems that cause homelessness.
Left to their own devices, the seriously compassion-challenged LA City Council would probably vote to provide corks for the homeless. THAT will certainly fix the problem....