Dr. Doogooder
…so I’m headed up Tchoupitoulas this afternoon, going to the grocery store. I had to stop at the intersection of Third and Tchoup to wait for this little white truck to pass — and I notice some kinda corporate logo on this white Ford Ranger as it passes. I get in traffic behind it and I notice it’s got a logo from Troy Aikman Ford in Dallas — a place I have been to on a truck hunt with my daughter last year.
We go a few blocks upriver and get nearly to Louisiana Ave. when the driver of this Ford Ranger tosses this HUGE wad of trash out onto the street. I mean like 3-4 fast-food bags — and these bags and the wrappers and the cups fly all over Tchoupitoulas.
Nonononononono…..
…so I call the NOPD on the non-emergency number and tell them about it while I’m still following this truck past my destination and up past the Winn-Dixie and finally to the end of Tchoup by Audubon Park. By this time I’m off the phone with the cops and I’m a few cars behind this little white truck, which turns left toward the river and vanishes into this security-patrolled area. I pull up to the security gate and bail out of my truck and am met by these security folks….
….who are wearing FEMA IDs. Turns out whoever tossed this trash is a freaking FEMA subcontractor. The very agency that has been “helping” us (and they honestly have in a lot of ways — like CLEANING UP TRASH) has been hiring folks who are depositing more garbage back on the street — and not the kind of trash they clean up.
I bitched at the security folks for a bit and left. I wasn’t able to get a good look at the name of the subcontracting company. But if you go to the end of Tchoup and turn left, the FEMA place is like the first drive-in on the left after you make the turn.
The cops called me back about 20 minutes later, asking if I was still behind this truck — but they lost interest when I told them I wasn’t. Apparently they had indeed dispatched a car to go check it out and that impressed me (not like they don’t have other stuff to do).
I was just livid. Maybe the security folks thought I was crazy, I dunno or care. But dammit — we got enough trash of our own already.
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…no plate number?
I gave the plate number to the cops — but I was driving in some rather heavy traffic and couldn’t write it down. It was a Louisiana plate, however.
There’s a state agency that specializes in issuing citations to people for littering - Call 1-888-LITRBUG. It will prompt you to leave your information after ‘the tone’ and you can leave the license plate, location, time, date, and any other specifics. I call this number more often than I like to admit to report anyone I see littering!
Well Fema needs some job scurity to, he probably planed to go back and get it on a slow day.