Maybe Donald Schaefer was right about the Eastern Shore after all. While Mayor Ireton only comes to the Downtown Plaza on Third Friday, (which was a flop this past week) after everything has been completely cleaned up and the bums run off, he should come to my Office for a few hours and see what he ISN'T doing, (on purpose).
I received a phone call a half hour ago from a tenant who has video of these people using most of the plug outlets on the Plaza to charge everything and feels they should have lock boxes to distract a certain crowd from knowing they have benches to sleep on, power outlets to charge their batteries and walls to piss on whenever the need in broad daylight.
Another business owner told me today that they have to walk their clients to their cars at night. Another business owner told me they have to lock their doors even during the day to keep them out. Yeah, this Mayor and Urban Salisbury have done a bang up job for Downtown Salisbury.
I know, maybe WMDT should turn on the volume on the three TV's they have out on the Plaza and we could all deliver popcorn to them and continue to clean up their mess. Help is NOT on the way. That is, unless your a bum or a liberal.
Thats just nasty and since when does the tax payers of Salisbury have to pay the electric bill for these bums to charge their electronics Boy what a great town!!
ReplyDeleteOf course all the liberals in town love to see urine on the walls. We live for this stuff. You are so smart and intuitive to figure this out.
ReplyDeleteI don't even go downtown anymore except for when I visit Market St Books,and I can usually avoid bums there because they are not exactly avid readers....
ReplyDeleteConstitutional rights! Crap!
ReplyDeleteIf the Mayor is such a bleeding heart, let him provide space for these bums at his house.
Ireton talked about urban blight. Now he encourages it
If you asked, you'd probably find the members of Urban Salisbury do not condone this behavior.
...or a liberal.
ReplyDeleteNow that's funny. Why don't you do the so called "conservative" thing and solve the problem yourself?
Yeah I thought so.
The truth is that it is not a "liberal" or "conservative" problem.
It is just a problem.
4:17 usually the conservative will call the police .....but since this state is run by liberals ... us conservatives cannot do anything about it without stupid liberals wanting to do a study or other stupid crap because it might offend or put out the less fortunate that have to piss on said walls
ReplyDeleteanonymous 4:17, when I confronted the Mayor about these issues months ago, he came back and stated they have constitutional rights to be there. So please don't tell me its not a liberal thing. If I was the Mayor I'd make damn sure they were NOT loitering in front of the very few businesses left in Salisbury, PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteJoe, maybe it's a Mayor Ireton thing; not a liberal thing. All liberals are not ignorant nor do they all have wet pants.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 6:47, If you voted for him, you're one of them.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing republican or democrat about protecting someone's basic rights. Do yourself a favor Joe: take a basic civics class, clean up your blight of a building than looks no better than that puddle of urine, and be part of the solution instead of focusing on the problem.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 6:59, Clean up my blight of a building, you are kidding me, right.
ReplyDeleteThere is no blight at 300 W. Main Street. IF you can show me ANYTHING that is wrong with my building I most certainly welcome any critisism.
Unlike other property owners in Downtown Salisbury, I have no issues whatsoever making sure my property is 1st class.
in fact, I have been renovating that building for the past 4 years and have invested quite a bit of money getting it as close to brand new as you can possibly get on a 100+ year old building.
Because of all I have been doing to that building, I happen to know first hand you are completely full of crap and that's putting it nicely.
As for someone's basic rights, when I punch you in the face for pissing in public or on my property, then we'll talk about your rights vs mine.
Take a basic Albero course and see what it gets you rights wise.
The draw on the electric outlets is minimal so that's just a hysterical concern.
ReplyDeleteAre there any public bathrooms in the area for people to relieve themselves?
I don't go down there much. Are there any 'no loitering' signs posted in that area?
Salisbury downtown consists of one block, unless you count the courthouse.
The only thriving business there, that I can tell, is WMDT.
The rest are outdated and overpriced, except perhaps the barbershop.
Salisbury has no downtown to speak of. It's just a shell of what it used to be.
If they can spend millions for parking space at a civic center, that is not even properly operated, why can't they buy up the downtown area, bull doze it, and make it current and commercially viable?
Historic buildings? More like eyesores and lowlife attractions.
You cannot re-build something that has no value. (Memories don't count)
I can't believe 6:59 thinks it's okay and just someone's basic right to take a leak in public on someone's steps! Obviously they are someone who was brought up in a lower class home with no morals or values.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone remember when flannerys left downtown. if i remember correctly it was about the people waiting at the bus stop taking leaks and dumps on his property while they waited. the city did nothing to stop this and he packed up and left. way to support downtown business guys! who wants to walk around downtown if you have to avoid puddles of pee and feces landmines? we can go to the zoo and do that anytime.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe 6:59 thinks it's okay and just someone's basic right to take a leak in public on someone's steps! Obviously they are someone who was brought up in a lower class home with no morals or values.
ReplyDeleteSeptember 21, 2011 10:11 AM
How did you come up with that? He didn't say anything remotely like what you said.
Putting words in people's mouths again?
I lived downtown Salisbury for nearly 2 years until a new job took me over to the Annapolis area. I first lived on Camden Street, facing the parking lot, for a little over a year, and then moved to the Downtown Plaza (in an amazing 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom place) for six months until I had to move.
ReplyDeleteI never felt unsafe downtown. My now-husband and I would walk to Market Street, Brew River, Flavors (may it rest in peace), the library, City Park, etc., all the time, day and night (well, maybe not City Park at night, but you catch my drift). I'm just saying, there are people living downtown, and it's really not that scary. I felt much less safe living in a house between Riverside and Camden Drive my first year in Salisbury, when my car was broken into on Christmas Eve and my back door lock was easily opened by a credit card, yet the landlord never fixed it.