Rob McB | The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon

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    Rob McB on 12/28/2008 at 8:36 PM
    ??? okay, but the whole idea behind finding a way to be fossile-fuel independent is doing it while mainintaining our lives. There is no value whatsoever in doing it while 'vacationing' for a year! I need to get to my crappy job 4 miles from my house 5 days a week, 52 weeks/year and not use fossile fuel. How does watching a movie about a personal (and obviously non-work required) trek help me do that? Jeeze.
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    Rob McB on 05/25/2008 at 8:18 AM
    I agree. I will stop taking my dog to the park to run as god intended her to run when I get the right to call the police when a screaming toddler in the grocery store or a restaurant makes my slice of heaven unbearable. I was amazed when I first moved to Bend 4 years ago -- there was a dog in the backseat of just about every other car. I thought: kismet! Little did I know that I would have to drive 25 miles roundtrip to a dog park to run my canine. To run her legally, that is. But I gotta say one thing. Save for a few, Bend residents with canines are overwhelmingly inconsiderate in doggie cleanup. I have stepped in more dog poop in this town than I can count. It's a mine field out there. I often will pick up several leftover 'gifts' because I want so much for us to prevail in our quest for more off-leash areas. Until we clean up our acts so to speak, we don't have a leg to stand on. We can't even clean up after our canines!! There seems to be this gross view that "well, if no one saw my fido take that dump, I win again and don't have to scoop it up." Are our residents' backyards filled with poop, I wonder? Bend, we need to clean up the dog poopies! And we need to hold other dog owners accountable. Responsible dog owners need to unite and make it a movement (bahahahahaha, yes, pun intended). The current level of neglect by us dog owners is despicable. We need a leg to give our non-dog owning neighbors a reason to believe in us. Sorry to ramble on and on, but I have never seen such a disrespectful community in this regard.