you and the kids will have to pee in the bushes off Arizona's roads

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/us/05reststop.html?th&emc=th


Closing of Rest Stops Stirs Anger in Arizona


The people of Arizona kept their upper lips stiff when officials mortgaged off the state’s executive office tower and a “Daily Show” crew rolled into town to chronicle the transaction in mocking tones. They remained calm as lawmakers pondered privatizing death row.

But then the state took away their toilets, and residents began to revolt.

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Arizona has the largest budget gap in the country when measured as a percentage of its overall budget, and the state Department of Transportation was $100 million in the red last fall when it decided to close 13 of the state’s 18 highway rest stops.

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“People in this state are mad about this,” said State Representative Daniel Patterson, a Democrat from Tucson who has sponsored a bill that would allow other entities to reopen and maintain the rest stops. “This bill may have the broadest support among members of any bill this year.”

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Arizona is not alone in singling out toilets. Colorado, Georgia, Vermont and Virginia are among states that have also closed rest stops, though Virginia’s new governor, Robert F. McDonnell, has vowed to reopen 19 stops that closed last year.

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Further, two winter storms recently battered the north of the state, at a cost of roughly $4 million to the department. The roughly $300,000 a year it cost to operate each rest stop was something the department decided it could no longer manage.

“People think, ‘You just go in and change the toilet paper, don’t you?’ ” said Kevin Biesty, the government relations director for the Transportation Department. “The answer is, no, we have to maintain the water quality, we have do maintenance to the buildings and so on. Some of those places in the middle of nowhere are like their own little cities.”
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so now they will make money arresting people who pull off the road and pee in the bushes?

[Touchdown]

1. Which might be illegal.

Some states have public exposure laws and will haul you in for peeing in bushes. Silly!

[Igel]

2. So pee in a coffee can and dump it in the bushes.

They could probably use the nitrogen.

[Touchdown]

3. Got a better idea. Drive through Utah & Nevada instead.

Their rest stops are still open.

[azmouse]

4. You won't find bushes between Phoenix and Tucson.

Would a cactus be good enough?

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. right, not enough bushes for privacy

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6. I forgot there are few bushes. I did pee in the desert once

opened the passenger door and the back door and squatted between them. if was my first time in the desert. I was expecting a puddle but the pee sank into the dirt immediately. I was surprised.