Saturday, April 5, 2008

Toilet Backups at Miller Park

Thousands of people spending hours in the Miller Park parking lots tailgating before the Brewers home opener require a lot of portable toilets.

When it comes to toilets, it's crucial that the supply meets the demand.


From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

There are so few portable toilets in the Miller Park parking lots that a bank of 12 toilets, set in a patch of soggy grass and mud, had at least 300 people in line. The lines at the Dodgers and Mets parking areas are 25 to 30 people long.

Three hundred people in line waiting to use a toilet?

That's terrible!

Danielle Loche, 29, of Grafton stood near the front of one of the lines and said she had been waiting about 25 minutes.

"There, people told me they were wearing Depends diapers so they don't have to pee," Loche said.

Nearby, at a pickup truck, a 24-year-old man from Green Bay who had been drinking with his friends since 7:45 a.m., urinated in a cup inside his pickup.

"It's the best way to do it," he said, gesturing at the long line for the portable toilets at about noon. "You think I'm going to go wait in that?"

Some of the women in the Green Bay man's party squatted and urinated on the pavement in the parking lot.

That's disgusting.

You have to be really, REALLY desperate (and drunk) to pop a squat on the parking lot pavement.

It's so frustrating when adequate facilities aren't provided to handle the crowd's needs.

It's poor planning on the part of the Brewers.

With no rain in the forecast, I hope the Miller Park crew hosed down the lots after they emptied out. Yuck!

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