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Homeless destroy motel in Wyoming city, leave about 500 pounds in feces on streets: mayor
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Sep 4, 2023, 6:24:00 PM9/4/23
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crisis-mayor/
A city in Wyoming has been overrun with an unprecedented homeless
population that’s destroyed a vacant motel and has left hundreds of pounds
of feces across the area, according to its mayor.
Mayor Bruce Knell detailed the destructive behavior of roughly 200
homeless people in Casper, WY who have been creating a “mess” throughout
the streets and parks, as well as a closed motel where squatters left
millions in property damage.
“They destroyed everything,” he told Cowboy State Daily. “It’s horrible.”
Homeless people who squatted at the Econo Lodge motel caused more damage
than the flooding that initially closed the business down, Knell
reportedly said.
The property was condemned by the city and the bank that owns the
foreclosed business boarded it up.
“It was inhabitable, and it was unsafe,” Knell told Cowboy State Daily.
Other homeless people are squatting in other abandoned properties in
Casper that don’t have water or electricity.
“It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Knell said. “It’s third-world country
stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming.”
“We know very well we cannot litigate our way or arrest our way out of the
problem, but our police need some teeth to start dealing with the
squatting,” he also told the news outlet.
“They’re just causing so many problems.”
Meanwhile, city staff has been forced to scoop up about 500 pounds of
human feces in Casper’s downtown, where many homeless people loiter, the
news outlet reported.
Some set up camp in local parks and bike paths, while others sleep in
their cars.
Some of the crime in the city, Wyoming’s second most populated city, can
be tied to homeless people, Knell said.
“In desperate times people do desperate things, and unfortunately we’re
the ones left having to deal with it,” he said.
Some people living on the streets come to Casper for a homeless shelter in
the city, but when they are kicked out or denied entry, they never leave,
Knell noted.
“There’s a certain part of the homeless population, whether substance
abuse or mental illness, that is getting them to where they don’t want to
conform to society’s rules,” Knell told the Cowboy State Daily.
“When they do that they’re not allowed to go in the shelter, which means
they’re just out and about in our community raising hell.”
Casper is just one of numerous cities facing a heartbreaking homeless
problem, including the Big Apple where more than 4,000 people didn’t have
a roof over their heads during a citywide tally in January.
The figure was nearly an 18% jump from 2022.
The NYC shelter population surpassed 100,000 earlier this year as the city
continues to take on a flood of arriving migrants.
Tom Smith
3 hours ago
The owner should take responsibility for their property like I do with
mine. Lucky they haven't been sued due to an injury or fire that spreads
to other properties. I would sue if I lived near by for neglect. A basic
project manager could maintain better. This is rich people pushing their
responsibilities on to poor. The bank doesn't have money? Or insurance?
Tee Menn
2 hours ago
The window on turning around this breakdown of our society is quickly
closing.
Regardless of who claims to be the "winner" in our elections, In order to
restore confidence in our elections, no winner should be called until
every vote is reviewed by election officials from both parties. Every vote
must to matched to a signature in a registry book where the voter showed
ID and signature match, media stick drives and tally sheets must
correspond to the votes cast, along with ballot accounting forms showing
the number of paper ballots received from the election board and the
number used that should match.
Just recounting paper ballots is just affirming the fraud. Now the
winners can be declared and be given a chance to carry through on their
promises to make things better. If not rinse and repeat at the next fair
election.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
crisis-mayor/
A city in Wyoming has been overrun with an unprecedented homeless
population that’s destroyed a vacant motel and has left hundreds of pounds
of feces across the area, according to its mayor.
Mayor Bruce Knell detailed the destructive behavior of roughly 200
homeless people in Casper, WY who have been creating a “mess” throughout
the streets and parks, as well as a closed motel where squatters left
millions in property damage.
“They destroyed everything,” he told Cowboy State Daily. “It’s horrible.”
Homeless people who squatted at the Econo Lodge motel caused more damage
than the flooding that initially closed the business down, Knell
reportedly said.
The property was condemned by the city and the bank that owns the
foreclosed business boarded it up.
“It was inhabitable, and it was unsafe,” Knell told Cowboy State Daily.
Other homeless people are squatting in other abandoned properties in
Casper that don’t have water or electricity.
“It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Knell said. “It’s third-world country
stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming.”
“We know very well we cannot litigate our way or arrest our way out of the
problem, but our police need some teeth to start dealing with the
squatting,” he also told the news outlet.
“They’re just causing so many problems.”
Meanwhile, city staff has been forced to scoop up about 500 pounds of
human feces in Casper’s downtown, where many homeless people loiter, the
news outlet reported.
Some set up camp in local parks and bike paths, while others sleep in
their cars.
Some of the crime in the city, Wyoming’s second most populated city, can
be tied to homeless people, Knell said.
“In desperate times people do desperate things, and unfortunately we’re
the ones left having to deal with it,” he said.
Some people living on the streets come to Casper for a homeless shelter in
the city, but when they are kicked out or denied entry, they never leave,
Knell noted.
“There’s a certain part of the homeless population, whether substance
abuse or mental illness, that is getting them to where they don’t want to
conform to society’s rules,” Knell told the Cowboy State Daily.
“When they do that they’re not allowed to go in the shelter, which means
they’re just out and about in our community raising hell.”
Casper is just one of numerous cities facing a heartbreaking homeless
problem, including the Big Apple where more than 4,000 people didn’t have
a roof over their heads during a citywide tally in January.
The figure was nearly an 18% jump from 2022.
The NYC shelter population surpassed 100,000 earlier this year as the city
continues to take on a flood of arriving migrants.
Tom Smith
3 hours ago
The owner should take responsibility for their property like I do with
mine. Lucky they haven't been sued due to an injury or fire that spreads
to other properties. I would sue if I lived near by for neglect. A basic
project manager could maintain better. This is rich people pushing their
responsibilities on to poor. The bank doesn't have money? Or insurance?
Tee Menn
2 hours ago
The window on turning around this breakdown of our society is quickly
closing.
Regardless of who claims to be the "winner" in our elections, In order to
restore confidence in our elections, no winner should be called until
every vote is reviewed by election officials from both parties. Every vote
must to matched to a signature in a registry book where the voter showed
ID and signature match, media stick drives and tally sheets must
correspond to the votes cast, along with ballot accounting forms showing
the number of paper ballots received from the election board and the
number used that should match.
Just recounting paper ballots is just affirming the fraud. Now the
winners can be declared and be given a chance to carry through on their
promises to make things better. If not rinse and repeat at the next fair
election.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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