I guess there's a price to be charged for everything

Turner Field wouldn't allow anything in the 1st 2 years of its new opening. After a BIG fan outcry over some of the costliest concessions I've still yet to see rival their %$#!^ Prices, they reversed their policies, to allow a Playskool Cooler in for each fan. As long as it fits under a seat.....Although it took more than Public Outcries, it took thousands of empty seats, from fans who literally turned in their seasons tickets, and others who yep, boycotted the games.

I've never seen enough fans pool their grievances together to change a Big Org. Policy....(the norm is the other fans *scabs*, who don't give a crap, about changing a bad policy; buy up those good seats (which were only available due to boycotting fans absence), while *scabs* won't back, the fans not going to the games, to make a loud statement).

Yet, the boycott, and constant phone calls to the Front Office,were heard loud and clear. The phones rang off the hook for 2 weeks. When that didn't work, Fans picketed the park....didn't last long either, that is, the old policy was quickly changed, before the scene could make the news, pretty much....

 

Let's talk water now- I said I wasn't going to touch this subject, cuz its to close to home literally, and a subject that pisses me off. I'm glad this point was brought up tho', (I'm only pissed at the Dept. of Water and Power-DWP).

Locally here in the middle of the Mojave Desert, lays a huge, series of 6 each, 1 million gallon each, Waste Water Treatment Plants. Only 6 miles north of my house, on a day when the North Wind rarely blows, it smells like raw sewage, all day and night long. (Not often, the winds normally blow from the West).

A trailer Park sits half empty but one mile from the sewage plant. Why cuz the residents have all kinds of respiratory problems, and who wants every day of their lives to smell sewage, or frankly shit?

The treatment plant, grew expotentially 15 years ago, when it expanded its resevoirs from 2 to 6. This move was made to include treatment of L.A. sewage piped up here. (yes the desert always gets all of L.A.'s shit), (its gang bangers, moving into Section 8 Homes, riff rafts, trash, and sewage are out-sourced to this area from L.A. since it is Northern L.A. county, they can do that). but not without public outcry, in this case, public outcry, even lawsuits against L.A.County and the DWP have done no good.

why the DWP is involved. Because the treated sewage water, is then pumped to Farmers to irrigate. 30 years ago, this desert area, used to be 60 percent rural alfalfa, onion, and barley farms. Now what were millions of Farm land acres, are now empty desert abandoned lots miles long. Only tumbleweeds grow where once crops thrived (with irrigation)....

When the County decried: all Farmers would have to use re-claimed water for their crops, in lieu of Sierra snow pack Aquaducts, (and while water tables dropped from 300 feet, to 900 feet, limits were placed on Irrigation Water Wells). So Farmers were screwed either way, no fresh water, only re-cycled sewage water for their crops.

Aneheuser Busch used to be the largest rural crop Farmer in this area. In Calif. only, and here in the Antelope Valley, 70 percent of all Barley grown for Budweiser, Michelob et al. came from Barley grown once using Aquafiers. When the State and County decried, Farmers mandatorily would be given reclaimed sewage water, for their crops. Aneheuser Busch said screw you, we can't ensure the contaminants will not decline the quality of our brew...so they pulled out, and with them went a ton of tax money, as well as jobs too....

so yep, Budweiser tastes like piss water, because it is...or would of been brewed with re-cycled piss, and/or fertilizers of other sorts.....(I know I said Bud moved out before they had to use the waste water, but hell it still tastes like piss)....!