Pastor's Porta-Potties Donation Raises Stink

[Kadie]

Pastor's Porta-Potties Donation Raises Stink
SMUD Says Permits Not Taken Out For Toilets

POSTED: 4:08 pm PDT March 20, 2009
UPDATED: 5:47 pm PDT March 20, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Placerville pastor said he is getting backlash from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District after he chose to donate portable toilets to the residents of a large tent city in the northern part of downtown Sacramento.

Daryl Wilhite of Krystal Light Ministries said he's willing to move the toilets a few hundred feet away from railroad tracks, but SMUD doesn't seem amenable to that.

SMUD representative Elisabeth Brinton said SMUD and other property owners don't want the portable toilets to remain. The utility district would be liable and at risk, she said, because no permits were taken out for the portable toilets.

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Wilhite said he would return to the camping area to fight with SMUD to keep the portable toilets in place.

http://www.kcra.com/news/18979487/detail.html

[The Straight Story]

1. WTF, is the news broken? A positive story about a religious person?

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

2. Your subject line got me, but props to the pastor.

Wow, and here's a companion piece...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5297206&mesg_id=5297206

Homeless Campers to Be Moved out of Sacramento's Tent City

Note DUer juno jones' response, about porto-potties.

I'll be watching this story.

[juno jones]

6. Thank you babylon,

I hadn't heard about the minister providing them. I know they're costly, 3 for a weekend event cost $350 when we had to look into it recently.

That's Christian charity right there. I'd thought the real thing died out years ago.

[Kadie]

7. Thanks for the link.

:hi:

It will be interesting to see what happens next with this story.

[Mist]

3. Oh, no permits for the porta-potties? THAT'S the reason? Right. nt

[xchrom]

4. oh good gravy -- somebody tries to create a more sanitary environment

and 'the powers that be' get upset about it?

we have become truly baroque.

[AlCzervik]

5. SMUD sucks, i'm going to write a letter when i send my check.

douchebags.