Comments on: Are your neighbors polluting? Call new toll-free hotline

By: M.c

M.c — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:25:16 +0000

When will the conservative morons of Orange County grow tired of their cliche, overused “green religion” slurs and global warming denial?

By: Rudedog

Rudedog — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:39:06 +0000

TThis is a joke! I emailed these people to report a neighbor dumping grass clipping together with antifreeze in our street gutter and the county only left a leaflet at their. The same neighbor did it again 3 weeks later, I emailed these guys again and they never answered my email or contact the culprit. I had to call out the city code enforcement to handle the problem..

By: Not Even

Not Even — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:28:01 +0000

Looks like many see this as a plot toward ‘snitch on your neighbor.’ I see it as an opportunity to have the absentee owner of a neighborning duplex informed, legally, that his/her gardner are breaking the law and doing environmental damage by blowing the debris from the yard down the storm drain in front of the unit. That is what they can’t, using their blowers, blow over the low walls onto neighboring houses on either side. Try to talk to them? Awwww. . .they don’t understand da English. Think the police are going to come out and take it on? They didn’t come out when we called in active grafitti going on – have to get past the dispatchers ya know.

By: Speaking of Idiots

Speaking of Idiots — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:28:31 +0000

Hey Racists! Lighten up on the Mexicans! Remember, we were here FIRST!!!

By: Finally the Voice of Reason

Finally the Voice of Reason — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:27:35 +0000

THANK YOU “Education Goes a Long Way”! I can’t believe the stupid, STUPID comments the first 10 people made. Let’s consider that South Orange County is a tourist destination, you’d think that these people might want to keep the environment clean so our children not only profit from it but so does our local economy. BOY, IT SURE IS NICE NOT SWIMMING IN A PAINT SATURATED BACTERIA FILLED CESSPOOL!! I’m sure these are the same people who get upset about government waste and ever increasing bureaucracy but you ask them to participate to cut costs and THEY FREAK OUT!!

They’re not saying “Snitch on you neighbor” like that’s the only option. Go ahead and be neighborly but if you have difficult neighbors or a language barrier or you don’t know what to say then call the county’s number!

By: Education Goes A Long Way

Education Goes A Long Way — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:26:13 +0000

Stalin? Hitler? Aren’t we going a little overboard here? These despots killed tens of millions of people. The county simply wants to educate people that pollutants that go down the storm drain go straight to the ocean.

My guess is that the guy pouring paint (or motor oil, or whatever) down the storm drain probably thinks it goes to the sanitation district for treatment. If someone comes out to tell him that it flows untreated to the ocean and he and his kids will be swimming in it this summer, maybe he’ll change his behavior.

If we don’t educate, how will people learn?

How exactly is that a bad thing?

By: John S.

John S. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:55:00 +0000

Snitch on your neighbor for dumping diluted water based paint? (I dump mine in the grass). And we thought Stalin and Hitler were dead.
What about the clown house next door polluting my neighborhood with 12 cars, half of which leak oil in the street for a 4 bdrm house?

By: Big Green Jesus

Big Green Jesus — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:37:43 +0000

Only in Orange County… California’s last stronghold for nutty religious fundamentalists and narrow minded social conservatives. The same breed who wet themselves with excitement over anti-environmental “political” figures like Sara Palin.

I don’t think it takes a chemist or a marine biologist to figure out that dumping hazardous chemicals into the storm drain adversely affects our ocean environment. I think it’s incredibly selfish to live your life with blinders on… I bet if your African-American neighbors were listening to Kanye West too loud at 9:00pm, you hypocrites wouldn’t hesitate to call the Irvine Police Department.

Our children are being educated in environmental issues, the awareness is spreading, and thankfully the stone-age philosophy of yesterday’s Conservative Orange County is slowly dying off.

My children will breathe clean air, drink clean water, and know what a whale looks like if I have anything to say about it.

All hail the Green Religion.

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“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
- Jacques Cousteau

“If the end doesn’t justify the means, then what does?”
- Edward Abbey

By: jsco

jsco — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:39:04 +0000

Joe homeowner, I’m watching you.
Just go down any street in santa ana , every other house is polluting something- oil, paint etc etc etc. that place is the anus of orange county

By: normancay

normancay — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:36:48 +0000

Good Point, OChousewife…

why are we turning on each other when the government, from our local county idiots to the state to the morons at the federal level are screwing up everything from the economy to the environment, where can I report these idiots???

Where is the accountability for the Government???? They want to be accountable all the time ….