closed #75454
Trash
501 E Southern DR
- Case Date:
- 7/24/1998
C
C
Homeless people are again living in People’s Park. They’re using drugs, fighting, leaving trash everywhere, screaming and yelling, urinating and defecating and have taken over most of the benches and tables. It also appears that they are sleeping there overnight. We bought ice cream across the street and expected to have a nice Sunday afternoon in the park for thirty minutes or so… we tried sitting on the steps of a business on the opposite side of Dunn Street but the shrubbery nearby was probably soaked in urine based on the stench. We simply left at that point….. No other Indiana city of the same size and population has a homeless population of 1 % of that of Bloomington and that is directly attributable to the fact that Bloomington attracts these people by virtue of feeding them and enabling them unlike anywhere else in Indiana. I’ve lived in and near Bloomington since 1974 and this has simply gotten totally out of hand.
There is a small sandy-colored dog tied to a post in People's Park that looks undernourished/neglected.
Someone has set up what looks like a junk store on the east side of People's Park up against the bike shop wall.
They can’t stay within the lines. Fine then already.
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exceeds weight limit of 40 lbs,
s-no sticker
Abandoned vehicle with trunk open in the rain from at least 5pm-8pm Friday night. South side of Grimes Lane between Palmer and Dunn st.
Next to my townhouse there is a furniture store. My front door faces their parking lot. There is a tree line- it is unclear who's property it is. A group of transient people have been living in the tree line. I don't believe they reside there currently but the mess left behind is so huge that I can't even let my children play outside. There is constant debris blowing, and I am concerned that they will wander toward the trees where there is just a TON of trash and things that I am positive are a biohazard.