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As the public proceeds with perambulating in proximate parkland places following the partial lifting of park-use prohibitions, the prolonged padlocking of public portals for peeing promotes the prospect of people peeing in parkland settings where proclamations prohibit such ploys.

County officials have announced they are going to soon reopen certain parks to walk-in access so those living near them can easily go to them, but they’re going to leave the bathrooms closed for now. Upon learning of the plan, I got to thinking about what might go wrong with such a plan and, as sometimes happens, it got me going.

Do they really expect people will go before they go out and then go no more after they’ve gone? Having to go out of their way to go won’t go very far with folks who’ve gone already but still need to go again. The authorities might be going out on a limb if they’re really going to try to stop people from going any more after they’ve gone out; their plan just might go south on them. People are liable to just up and go tell the authorities to go climb a rock or go jump in the lake or go to hell, where there’s likely no place to go.

Being told where they can go and where they can’t go won’t go over very well with the go-to crowd either, what with the get-up-and -go they display once they get going. These folks won’t be willing to go the distance in going out of their way to make sure they don’t have to go once they’ve gone. Neither will the people who have no place they can go before going out because they have no place to go to begin with.

It’s going to take time to see if anything goes awry with this plan.

Tim Konrad

2020.05.02