Dumper duty
Hawkins said a woman in the house “said she knew who did it, and that she would have that person clean it up.”
About a week later, a young guy went up the hill and, all day long, shoveled the muck into a truck. Bootier didn’t see it, but a neighbor did. “Apparently the kid had plenty of attitude. He looked really pissed off. It had to have been embarrassing.”
The case awaits judgment at the county code enforcement office. Bootier figures the kid learned his lesson. But to make it really stick, he hopes the county prosecutes him and, instead of slapping down a fine, makes him “clean up and down Kneeland Road.”
“And I’d help him,” Bootier said. “I’d join him for half a day or a whole day.” Long enough, he said, to ply the fellow with some fatherly advice on common decency, poopy behavior and personal responsibility.
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STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
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