Today, if you go down Old Port Isabel Road and look at the bags still littering the landscape, you will know that those people who are gong to litter will litter regardless of the cost. Above, across the street from the WalMart, the sight of those bags still are there. How many can you count in the picture above?
Yet, its proponents say it has been an unqualified success.
AS people say, success, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
29 comments:
Here at my traila house we don't have those problems, I pity the City of Brownsville.
Duardi
I purposely began litering the city when the bag-ban begin. I don't go to Brownsville often but when I do, I litter. And I have encouraged my familiy and friends to do so. My siblings shop at Harlingen and have saved the bags for me. I drive around the city and dump them. I will continue to do so as a form of non-violent protest until that useless and imbecilic ordinance gets overturned.
That pic is depressing. Doesn't the city have a historical shed or something to stick there?
If my trailer park started lookin like dis I would pull right out of here.
Hmmmmm. A plastic bag over my wife's face while I film you balling her? Yes!!!
Jake.
The only way to cure this problem is through fining the violators, not by inconveniencing law-abiding citizens. It is crazy that when I go to really clean towns and have no problem in getting my purchases bagged, I have to come back to Brownsville (a filthy town) and have to pay for bags at HEB.
The only ones that benefit from the ban are the stores that now get to sell plastic bags in which many of us used as liners and for carrying our lunch to work, which now we have to pay, when all the city had to was is enforce the existing ordinances againts littering. Thanks a lot Brownsville officials.
Keep on littering, stupid.....it doesn't seem it's going away any time soon....not as long Ms Piggy is commissioner...
the stores are not benefiting....the surcharge is going to the city to line somebodys pocket.....
Si me la meten por todo el culo les pago 20 dolares!
/DPM
There is a very simple solution to this unsightly problem. Go back to paper bags and people will save them to wipe their ass with and flush them down the toilet. Plastic does just not work, the shit slides right off.
I notice a large number of persons still having the H.E.B. cashiers package their groceries in plastic bags. It begs the question, does the Lone Star Card (food stamps) also pay for the plastic bags??? No one can really answer that for me. If the welfare system pays for plastic bags for the card holder...is this ban only a tax on those not on welfare??? What's going on here??? We have the plastic bag ban which seems to not pertain to the poor, and the city is reluctant to arrest, ticket or warn the poor of violations... Why do the poor get the "get out of jail free" card in Brownsville? I don't mention the Mexican nationals who don't seem to be held accountable for any violations of US law, except drugs or guns. Have you seen the local police pull over a Mexican tagged car for things like "child seat belts", blacked out windows,...etc.
It's not Gowen's fault that one of Uresti's supporters can't clean up their yard. I, for one, see the difference in litter. Maybe Uresti should help that person clean up their yard, rather than use it as political hay. I used to like Uresti now he's willing to stoop to such lows to get elected. I'm voting for Gowen.
Roberta Perez
What would it look like if there was not a ban? Frankly, I am disgusted by all of you and ashamed of the city where I was born and raised. This short-sightedness is why McAllen and Hidalgo County always trump Brownsville. It doesn't matter how good something is, if its inconvenient or requires effort we won't do it. If its good for the community or the general good but we aren't in the mood the general good is going to take a hit. The old story about the crabs in the bucket pulling the escapees back in has never been more applicable. It is my town, too, and I say take care of it.
Joaquin es pendejo!
the bag ban worked outside my house near the other walmart. haven't picked up trash like before..every day.
i am not a gowen fan at all, but I think the ban has actually helped.
THE CITY BENEFITS, NOT THE STORES. DOESN'T THE CITY RETAIN 95% OF THAT "ENVIRONMENTAL FEE" WITH THE STORE RETAINING 5%?
We don't really have a ban on plastic bags....we just have an empty ordinance that probably has never been enforced...except on the retailers. How many tickets have been issued to citizens for throwing their bags to the wind??? Probably none. This ban mostly affects the retailers....and there is a built in "by-pass" of the ordinance...the ability to pay for the plastic bags. Not a real ban. And, if it appears; that plastic bags are paid for by the "Lone Star" Card....that too defeats the purpose of the ban. Mother Rose Gowen seems to like bans that aren't really bans. She obviously doesn't travel down the street above, or she would see that the plastic bags are in the wind. The logo for Brownsville should be a plastic bag on a Mesquite bush.
This picture is reflective of the flawed ordinance that Rose Gowen hides behind. It is an ordinance aimed against the retailers and does nothing to keep the stupid people of this city from throwing the plastic bags out to the wind. We are beginning to believe that welfare recipients get free plastic bags and that the city has never once given a citation based on plastic bags. Tony Martinez and Rose Gowen are out of touch with this city and continue to try to initiate ordinances that will never be enforced.
Behind the Wal-Mart. Got it. I'll be back in Brownsville next month. I'll be sure to dump them there though I've enjoyed doing it downtown up until now. And for the idiot who claims it's not doing anything, mark my words, it will be overturned. Do you want to know why? Because it's stupid, that's why. It's not "for the common good" as one of you simpletons put it. It does no good and only benefits the stores who now don't have to provide me with a bag. Another little trick I've done? I went into Wal-Mart on Boca Chica and gathered up two cart fulls of tiny items and walked to the register. When they asked me for my bag, I told them I didn't want anything. The manager at the registers told me they wouldn't charge me for the bag. But I left the crap there anyway and walked away as a "phu-q" to Brownsville and their stupid bag-BAN.
If it frustrates you that much, talk to the City of Brownsville City Commission. It is silly and pointless to act out against the store. People like you just make working at WALMART that much more delightful. You should try relaxing or something. All that pent up negativelty is going to make you miserable and unhealthy.
Yes!.......
Good for you Roberta......and get on a diet with Ms Piggy!
Rose is a sleezy Zavaleta; Always wanting to be in control! If she doesn't like something, she will have an ordinance made out of it and ban it. What's next? No showering during the week because Mama Gowen wants to save the world? Bidets will be required in every restroom so your ass doesn't get a rash? Water fountains with kool-aid? What tha f$%*?
Joaquin, you are so evil mister! You naughty boy with such sinister plans! What would Brownsville do without you? All this time without knowing a new vilan existed.....Joaquin the secret litter bug.....filling Brownsville streets with plastic bags.....ahhhh!
Joaquin es pendejo todavia.
(/DPM)
I always knew that dude was queer. This just proves it, huh? lol!
Jake.
Wow joaquin you must be so proud of you and you filthy sibilings! by the way . .
utestis political sign compliments the trash around it. it is ALL trash.
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