Favorite Park for Kids?

What exactly do you think is going to happen if you bring your child to the same park a homeless person is at? The fearmongering is so strong with some folks on here...homeless people are just people... You and your child(ren) are in much, much more danger on your drive to the park.

Ouch, 0 for 4 EDWARD! Kids and other people, even homeless, can exist peacefully in one park :) it's tiresome seeing the constant vilification of homeless folks on here. There's been what, one needle stick scare in a decade at a local park? And zero homeless attacks on children? It's just plain fearmongering. No need to lash out over the internet. Really, what do you think is going to happen if you bring your kid to a park with a homeless person/people in it? I really am curious

Unless you count discarded suringes and human feces.

"Assume": makes a "ass" out of "u" insults "me".

"take your kids to the parks that have human shit smeared on the slides and heroin needles on the ground," Randy Rowse's campaign promise was to make the parks safe.

Guys stop being mean to Edward. As a nude model from Slovenia once said, we need to be best and avoid cyberbullying. Internet comments can hurt too. His truck is his personality and safe space, we need to respect that. This aggression will not stand, man.

Yes you are

Randy Rowse was supposed to make the parks safe. What happened?

Make that thrice.

We don’t our kids to the parks in the downtown/beach area because there’s too many crackheads that hang out in those areas, just today I was taking my break near the kids park across from the zoo, and saw a bum with his pants down scratching his balls and his whole ass showing and a cops drove past him, looked and did nothing, that’s another problem, when you drive in the industrial area you see all the crack heads smoking meth, shooting up heroin and half dead on fentanyl, and Santa Barbara PD does absolutely nothing about it, I’d say just be very careful with your kids at all parks because you never know if one of these low life piece of shit bums will leave something behind, and god forbid a child picks something up, remember the park on Haley street a kid got poked by a dirty heroin needle, I hope he’s ok now

Edhat You voted for Rowse - he was supposed to make the parks safe. That was a primary campaign promise. Rowse is too busy at ribbon cuttings and martini parties to care about your kids safety. Please stop farming me out as a babysitter and give Randy a call.

Edney I mean

Edney: Go to Plaza de Vera Cruz and spend like 30 minutes there. It's a good park and I doubt you even go there. I do pretty regularly with my dog or a book and it's relaxing. You should get out of the Fox News bubble and try it sometime.

Last time I drove past on Haley there was a guys passed out on the side walk with his pants half down. He looked like he'd nodded off while dropping one. I had no idea my drivers side window was a TV tuned into FOX.

I will say that park is a lot better than it was 10 years ago but if you can't find the addicts, you are not looking. To be fair I've seen overdoses in Upper Orpet on the Riviera, Oak Park down by all the halfway houses Alameda park near the bandstand and along Sola.

Post your phone number and I'll call you instead of 911 next time I see someone who looks overdosed so you can grab your kids and grandkids and visit

GT.
You voted for a 20 year clowncar cavalcade of losers and then expect Rowse to fix it all in a year?
PS: You have no idea who I voted for as mayor because I live SB City Limits adjacent. I will tell you that I was happy to vote for Jimmy Carter and happy to vote for Bill Clinton.
That said, remain staggered by your intellect, thanks for the discussion- usually I have to stop by the Lyndon LaRouche table outside the post office for that level of insight

" I had no idea my drivers side window was a TV tuned into FOX."

The TV tuned into Fox is inside your head ... it colors how you see the world.

You and your favored party created the economic conditions that resulted in the homeless people you so despise, many of whom come to California from red states. Many are veterans who lack services because the GOP prefers to cut the taxes of corporations and the rich. And there are the mentally ill who were released from mental hospitals by Gov. Reagan without providing the services that were supposed to go with that.

But for right wingers, it's all about feeling superior and blaming people for their circumstances.

"You voted for a 20 year clowncar cavalcade of losers and then expect Rowse to fix it all in a year?"

You blame the politicians you don't favor for everything that happens on their watch and excuse the politicians you do favor for everything that happens on their watch. Why? Because you're a fundamentally dishonest person.

"You voted for a 20 year clowncar cavalcade of losers"

I don't think GT voted for you or your RW friends.

The fact is that the public servants that you are denigrating are better people than you are in every possible way.

GT- "Edney I mean" Super crazy that you don't know what you're talking about...

And of course the color of your world within your fevered mind is the same as fairy princesses , unicorns and other delusions

Except no bathrooms, unless that has changed in the last 13 years. ASK ME HOW I KNOW.

I understood it as parks and playgrounds. And the "South Coast" is from Goleta-Carp.

Was at rocky nook recently and there was trash everywhere and drunk homeless people there all day. It's NO longer my go to sadly.

+1

Since ED won't take my money...

Edhat has principles.

8:09- Good one!

Please don't feed the ducks.
Really.

"and feed the ducks"

Oy. You and Babycakes. Not a good model of behavior -- don't do it.

"They discourage feeding the ducks and turtles"

With good reason.

"but.....we bring along a few "nibbles" for the birdies/turts to munch on"

Of course you do.

MarcelK: Feeding or not feeding the ducks at Alice Keck Park does not detract from the fact that it is probably the best place to bring your kids for an enjoyable time without some of the safety issues encountered at other parks. You are correct, feeding the ducks and turtles is completely discouraged for good reason. Some folks do not understand that it's quite unhealthy to toss out Ritz crackers, donut pieces, fried chips, beef jerky, cotton candy, etc. What the ducks/turtles refuse to eat sinks to the bottom and rots. We only provide them with organic, salt- and gluten-free items that they gobble up with joy (at least to me it seems like they are joyful). Like anything, moderation is the key, so you don't want to go there and dump out buckets filled with unhealthy or inedible nibbles. If you can afford it, you can buy Purina duck food pellets, which do not harm anything. By the way, the pellets are best served on dry soil or lawn.

So, yeah, Alice Keck Park gets my vote every time for the best place to bring kids for an outing.

BABYCAKES, what you are doing is selfish and shouldn't be encouraged in any form. You are doing it to entertain yourself, not to benefit the wildlife. What happens if everyone starts doing this, not just you? Nothing good for the ducks, that's for sure! Please stop, or at the VERY least, don't encourage others by trumpeting your self-serving behavior.

SacJon: I think that my comment was quite clear:
1. Alice Keck Park is, in my opinion, one the best parks to take children of all ages (babies to those who are 100-years old or more years old).
2. "... feeding the ducks and turtles is completely discouraged for good reason. Some folks do not understand that it's quite unhealthy to toss out Ritz crackers, donut pieces, fried chips, beef jerky, cotton candy, etc."
3. Read #1 and #2.

Additional points:
- I discourage anyone and everyone from feeding the ducks, birds, turtles, fish and everything else at Alice Keck Park.
- IF you are going to feed the wildlife, don't feed them garbage...go with the duck pellets.
- People do a lot of things that are not healthy or wise, but they are going to do those things irregardless of being told and knowing differently. So, they might as well know the best way to proceed with said bad behavior.
....that's basically it, so remember kids, don't feed the animals like the signs say.

You have to admit, it was and is still a good day to head to Alice Keck for a quick viz.