Mardi Gras Mess

[Neferti]

Sydney residents frustrated as Mardi Gras partygoers leave behind 'faeces and urine'

Sydney residents are pissed off as they wake up to their back lane and front yards being treated as a public toilet as Mardi Gras partygoers leave their mark.

The 40th annual Mardi Gras was celebrated with verve and vigour across inner Sydney streets, but not everybody came out smelling of roses.

Residents of streets in a pocket of Paddington, wedged between Oxford Street and Moore Park Road, report that every year their back walls and front yards get treated as kitty litter.

Through the back lanes around the area, someone left their faeces and wiped themselves with a t-shirt that they have also left behind to hide their business.

It smelled worse than bad on Sunday morning and the residents' attempts to wash away the mess seemed to have only made it worse.

"Men up against walls, weeing against walls, we had women in the bushes with their pants down," resident Pru Brown said.

YUK!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-04/m ... ts/9507346

[cods]

omg... they would need to put up stadium LIGHTS....and cameras do you mean they have a parade that encourages thousands and no public toilets.............the pubs are opened all hours...... and no toilets...........ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sydney Sydney SYdney shame shame shame

[Black Orchid]

All the 'wet' is urine against people's walls

[Black Orchid]

It's stupid Clover's fault. If she is going to promote and host these things she needs to provide adequate facilities.

The residents said they had taken their complaints, via a community group, to the City of Sydney.

Local Kerry Nelson said the council needed to be "cognisant" that partiers would move to the back streets if they could not access facilities.

"There were hardly any portaloos around for them, especially in this particular area, which is really unfortunate for them. They were left to find an alternative and the laneway was an alternative," she said.

Ms Nelson woke up to "rank" and "dreadful" smell and worked hard trying to clean her front yard and the laneway with bleach and anything else she could find.

"One had to pick up the debris and move on and get on with life," she said.

The City of Sydney told the ABC that Mardi Gras organisers were responsible for providing the appropriate infrastructure, and enforcing bans on public urination was a matter for the police.

[cods]

they should block those lanes off for the night thats shocking.....or stand behind the fence =with the garden hose...lolol..

oh I know its not funny and to have to put up with that year in year out....is not on....filthy filthy filthy...

[Neferti]

It's disgusting! Imagine the smell!!! YUK!!!

[Outlaw Yogi]

.....or stand behind the fence =with the garden hose...lolol..

No, a super soaker full of petrol.

[Black Orchid]

People are whining that it is no different to the mess after a footy game etc but it is NOT about the mess. It is about the urine and faecal matter everywhere. YUCK!!

No-one cares about a mess after a big event and there is no comparison.

[Neferti]

People are whining that it is no different to the mess after a footy game etc but it is NOT about the mess. It is about the urine and faecal matter everywhere. YUCK!!

No-one cares about a mess after a big event and there is no comparison.

A footy game "mess" is just people being too lazy to put their rubbish in the bins (or not enough bins). The Mardi Gras is not just "rubbish" it is about people pissing and pooping in the streets ... absolutely disgusting behaviour. Do the organisers care? Probably not.

I remember seeing the first Sydney Mardi Gras on TV, televised "live"... that was way back in the late 1970s. It was a little "over the top" but everyone was curious and we Melbournites living in Sydney at the time thought that Sydney was trying to copy Melbourne's Moomba Festival, also held in March, that Festival has been going on "forever", since 1955 actually and doesn't specifically involve homosexuals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomba