07-03-2015, 12:36 AM
HOTPE,
You quoted:
"The safety of the mountain is of utmost importance and if we don't have bathrooms for the hundreds of tourists that go up there - they gotta go somewhere and we don't want them doing that on the Mauna."
You know, there are just so many things wrong with this.
1) Safety of the mountain - for crying out loud, it's a mountain. What safety regulations are required?
2) There were sufficient bathrooms up there until a whole bunch of people decided to camp there.
3) The VIS staff had to deal with hostility and intimidation from the protesters. That's not in their job description, but did a fine job nevertheless.
4) The VIS restrooms had feces smeared on the walls when the protest first started. What a wonderful experience that would have been to the hundreds of tourists that go up there every day.
5) The protesters stopped people coming down from the summit. Hardly a safe thing to and a very stupid act.
6) Built walls blocking the road and worse, chucked rocks onto the road. Well, the tourists they were so keen to help were planning on visiting the summit, but it's great to know that they could find a place to piss before heading back to sea level again and complaining to the online world what a terrible experience it was.
Done with aloha of course.
You quoted:
"The safety of the mountain is of utmost importance and if we don't have bathrooms for the hundreds of tourists that go up there - they gotta go somewhere and we don't want them doing that on the Mauna."
You know, there are just so many things wrong with this.
1) Safety of the mountain - for crying out loud, it's a mountain. What safety regulations are required?
2) There were sufficient bathrooms up there until a whole bunch of people decided to camp there.
3) The VIS staff had to deal with hostility and intimidation from the protesters. That's not in their job description, but did a fine job nevertheless.
4) The VIS restrooms had feces smeared on the walls when the protest first started. What a wonderful experience that would have been to the hundreds of tourists that go up there every day.
5) The protesters stopped people coming down from the summit. Hardly a safe thing to and a very stupid act.
6) Built walls blocking the road and worse, chucked rocks onto the road. Well, the tourists they were so keen to help were planning on visiting the summit, but it's great to know that they could find a place to piss before heading back to sea level again and complaining to the online world what a terrible experience it was.
Done with aloha of course.