Items on the beach overnight

[John]

In an effort to promote the "Move it or Lose It" campaign to our customers, I stopped by the TDC reception center this morning. The kindly volunteer ladies on staff had very little knowledge of the campaign and not a single brochure or poster.

They refered me to code enforcement where, guess what? They had no printed materials either.

I'm all for the ordinance and its enforcement. However, I think it's only fair to warn the weekly tourists before simply taking their stuff without tagging (as is done with all items near a TDC access).

Hopefully they will get a better info campaign going soon.

 

[BlueMtnBeachVagrant]

...........Unenlightened, uneducated-about-the-facts people, (who probably voted for Bush and drive Priuses) think it's okay.........

Oh, hell, you just stepped on EVERYBODY's toes!!!

.......I think that someone should sit out there with a grenade launcher and kill these poor bat-turds and all their plastic-toy-totin' spawn...


Sense of humor? I still say it's a virus.

Succumbing to the DARK SIDE, are you?

 

[BlueMtnBeachVagrant]

In an effort to promote the "Move it or Lose It" campaign to our customers, I stopped by the TDC reception center this morning. The kindly volunteer ladies on staff had very little knowledge of the campaign and not a single brochure or poster.

They refered me to code enforcement where, guess what? They had no printed materials either.

I'm all for the ordinance and its enforcement. However, I think it's only fair to warn the weekly tourists before simply taking their stuff without tagging (as is done with all items near a TDC access).

Hopefully they will get a better info campaign going soon.

EXACTLY!

Take a look at this from the Walton Sun this weekend...talk about bureaucratic cOnfUsIoN regarding "time durations" (24 hours, 3 days, immediately):


TDC beach cleanup program underway

By Sean Boone Sean_Boone@link.freedom.com

The Walton County Tourist Development Council kicked off its Remove It or Lose It campaign July 23 in an effort to prevent items from being left on South Walton Beaches overnight.

The TDC?s goal is to create a cleaner beach that would be free of items that interfere with beach maintenance, emergency vehicles and sea turtle nesting.

Under County Ordinance 2003-07, items such as umbrellas, chairs or toys that are left on the beach for more than 24 hours, will be discarded.
The TDC is working in conjunction with the Walton County Sherriff?s Office to tag the items left on the beach. The tags contain the date, time and description of the item. If the tagged item is not removed by its owner in three days, it is then removed by county officials. Items that are left on all TDC maintained beaches and walkovers, will immediately be removed without being tagged.

TDC Director of Public Relations and Visitor Services Tracy Louthain said there were 20 items tagged from the first night of operation and there were nine truck loads of items collected for disposal by July 25.
?We had to break the beach into zones,? said Louthain. ?The nine loads we collected were from zone one, which is from the western border of Walton County to the Whale?s Tail Restaurant.?

According to the press release from the TDC, the intent of the ordinance is not to remove personal belongings from around houses and boardwalks, but to make sure items are not left in the middle of the beach.

?I hope the program will be successful, but it will require diligence on the county?s part,? said Eastern Lake Nursery and Garden manager Jennifer Jones. ?We need to clean our beaches up and keep them that way.?
Jones is a member of the Turtle Watch Group and would very much like to see the community come together for this program.

?There are many locals and visitors as well who would volunteer to help the county remove and dispose of these items,? said Jones. ?My hope is that we do not simply fill the landfills with all this debris but put it to good use by reusing it through donations to Boys and Girls Clubs, kids camps, schools, or the needy.?

According to Louthain, the items that are collected on the beach are currently sorted and sent to Fort Walton Beach for recycling.

 

[BlueMtnBeachVagrant]

:scratch:

You are a Dairy Queen?
Uranium-Rich Arabs Don't Quit?
Under Romania Are Donkey Queens?
Urban Royalty Arrive Donning Quilts?
Uber Radical, A La Don Quioxote?

Yea, me too.
Seems like some are reduced to a plethora of silly icons and OMGTCBFT cryptic abbreviations. Degummit! I exceeded my self-imposed icons to words ratio!!!! Sorry y'all.

 

[BlueMtnBeachVagrant]

To to the owner of the blue tent left on the beach at BMB...

REMOVE IT OR LOSE IT!!! :nono1:
I am watching you.

They have 3 days, dontcha know!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NoHall]

Oh, hell, you just stepped on EVERYBODY's toes!!!
Succumbing to the DARK SIDE, are you?

Just trying to fit in.

Not.

 

[scooterbug44]

What's w/ the 3 days to remove after tagging?

And they found 20 items in violation but filled 9 trucks? Seems quite contradictory.....

 

[greenroomsurfer]

Alright, now that everyone is being comical about all this. Does this apply to vehicles and good looking single girls?

 

[JustaLocal]

What's w/ the 3 days to remove after tagging?

And they found 20 items in violation but filled 9 trucks? Seems quite contradictory.....

I read in an earlier post that venders and private property owners would be notified by mail before their tagged items are removed. Maybe that's what the 3 days is for?

 

[Smiling JOe]

Alright, now that everyone is being comical about all this. Does this apply to vehicles and good looking single girls?

I'm sure that if the TDC collects your daughters from the beach, your children will be taken away by Child Family Services for not caring for your children for three days. :funn: