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It's simple: no one. Americans can enjoy 4 (or more) years of nasty, unusable toilets, and will probably just take a dump behind a tree if they're in a nationa
by shiroiushi 2y ago
It's simple: no one. Americans can enjoy 4 (or more) years of nasty, unusable toilets, and will probably just take a dump behind a tree if they're in a national park, so popular parks will be full of human waste lying around. Maybe they can just close the parks altogether.
- warkdarrior 2y agoNo, don't close the park. Just open them for business. You want a clean, well-light, comfortable toilet in a national park? NP Toilet Inc will provide one for a small fee.
- shiroiushi 2y agoPeople will get mad about having to pay a "small" fee to use a toilet at a national park, so some will take a crap behind a tree. So the USFS and NPS could then hire private security companies to patrol the parks looking for people peeing and pooping behind trees, and arrest them, forcing them to pay huge fees to be released. Maybe this could be a model for law enforcement all over America, actually: privatize all the police. People could just pay fines for whatever crime they've committed: $1000 for insulting the president, $10,000 for shoplifting, $10M for murder, etc.
- greenie_beans 2y ago> some will take a crap behind a tree this is exactly what you're supposed to do. even park rangers will tell you that.
- shiroiushi 2y agoHuh? No, you're not at all. They'll tell you to dig a hole and crap into that, and bury it. Peeing behind a tree is fine, but that's a different matter.
- greenie_beans 2y agook thank you for being extremely pedantic but you know what i mean. it is common practice to shit in the woods on public land.
- clipsy 2y agoWhy stop there? Just be honest and admit the end goal is selling the national parks to real estate developers at best and strip miners at worst.
- renewiltord 2y agoPay toilets are defacto banned.
- piva00 2y agoAlso, you want to walk around on trails? National Trails Nature Inc. will provide you the experience for a small hourly fee, free to roam as deeply as your pockets go!
- greenie_beans 2y agothis is talking about national forests, not national parks. huge difference
- shiroiushi 2y agoDon't worry, the new DoGE department will combine the two for "cost efficiency" reasons.
- leereeves 2y agoNational parks are run by the National Park Service (an agency within the Dept of the Interior) not by the United States Forest Service (an agency within the Dept of Agriculture). This article is about the very remote, primitive campgrounds in national forests. I've camped in them, and in my experience the toilets are already nasty.
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