The Arkanssouri Blog.: Day 4 (at LEAST).

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Day 4 (at LEAST).

It is now Thursday, and they're still there.

And apparently, wherever Wal-Mart outsources it's photo development to observes Berchtold's Day, because there is a one-day delay "due to the Holiday."

But back to the skinned corpses in Warm Fork Park.

This provides an excellent opportunity to compare government bureaucracy to private management.

Suppose Warm Fork Park was privately owned/managed. And suppose they charged a small admission fee to the park. How long would it take them to get this cleaned up? The longer the rotting corpses stayed there, the less money they would get, so I HAVE to believe they would find a way clean it up as soon as it was first reported. Even if it was reported on a holiday.

Now, let's take a look at the Warm Fork Park that IS. It is funded by tax dollars, which means that no matter HOW awful the conditions are at the park, and no matter how many people don't use it, they get the same amount of money. Maybe this explains why they still have 17th-century restroom facilities that are cleaned so infrequently that sometimes people would rather take a dump on the floor than on the seat perched above the hole in the ground. (Yes, I've seen the evidence of that actually happening. As I recall, THAT wasn't cleaned up for quite awhile, either.) And maybe that explains why nobody in charge of managing the park has realized that people MIGHT want to wash their hands after using the bathroom. Or that toilet paper occasionally has to be REPLACED.

So, in short, there is no incentive for city employees to remove the rotting corpses.

Such a thing would NEVER happen at Disneyland.

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