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Diaper Doody
updated: Aug 31, 2012, 8:42 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

Despite having several trash cans located throughout the facility as well as bathrooms with baby changing stations, people are carelessly dumping diapers in the downtown parking facility of Santa Barbara.

Between 1-3 Diapers are found in the lot every evening. I talked to a Maintenance worker that found (10) Diapers *no exaggeration* left in the lot the evening of Fiesta.

For the most part the diapers are wrapped and sealed with the Velcro straps, but some are left opened and others have been found torn up (either by an animal or an animal).

Either way, littering is a crime and there is never an excuse for it - especially when there are trash cans nearby.

What makes people think it is OK to carelessly leave diapers in the parking lot?

Is there any way we can get this news out there and make people understand how horrific and gross this is?

I know how impossible it can be to catch someone in the act of littering, but how can we make this morally taboo or at least make people think TWICE about their actions?

Am I being silly in thinking that this is hazardous waste?

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Comments in order of when they were received | (reverse order)

COMMENT 314677	2012-08-31 08:57 AM
Parents are truely gross.
COMMENT 314684	2012-08-31 09:05 AM
A real problem these days as the 'ignorant' don't have the slightest ideas of proper or safe habits.....
COMMENT 314686	2012-08-31 09:13 AM
What a funny thing to wake up and start complaining about. Should be a beautiful three day weekend.
COMMENT 314688	2012-08-31 09:15 AM
What is wrong with people! Disgusting, selfish parents. gross.
COMMENT 314689	2012-08-31 09:17 AM
Yes you are truly silly. Do you expect as HazMat team to be dispatched?
COMMENT 314692	2012-08-31 09:21 AM
pictures please
COMMENT 314721P	2012-08-31 11:15 AM
@692 - Fransis might not approve. He's enlightened so he may think a photo wouldn't be "newsworthy". I just think it would be plain gross.
COMMENT 314800P	2012-08-31 03:35 PM
Cultural ignorance. Recent immigrants, those newer to USA culture, are not used to public trash cans that are regularly serviced. The solution is polite education and reinforcement of prevailing community standards. This goes for cigarette butts and candy wrappers too.
COMMENT 314853P	2012-09-01 06:36 AM
Diapers, Dogs, Snot Rockets, Spitting....Don't even get me started! Watch where you step these days on the beautiful sidewalks of Santa Barbara.
COMMENT 314858P	2012-09-01 07:09 AM
Maybe a simple bilingual sign, at the entrance to the parking lots, reminding people of littering penalties and the presence of surveillance cams wouldn't go amiss?
CORKY	2012-09-01 05:02 PM
Hazardous or not, it's disgusting!

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