I originally posted this over 4 years ago on a website running pMachine Pro on an iMac in my basement. I was surprised to find the article in question was still out there. I wonder if Barbara Mallon is still taking questions about crap along the road some 10 years on.

ROADSIDE HUMAN WASTE DISPOSAL CREATING UNSANITARY CONDITIONS

AMES, IOWA - The Iowa Department of Transportation is appealing to motorists traveling on Iowa’s roadways to use the state’s rest areas, truck stops or other public restroom facilities to safely and sanitarily dispose of liquid and solid human waste.

My favorite quote from the article, “The practice of throwing or dumping bottles, cans or bags containing human waste along Iowa’s interstates and primary highways creates an unpleasant, unattractive and unsanitary environment. These products can also result in the injury, destruction or loss of Iowa’s natural resources.”

Read for yourself: http://www.dot.state.ia.us/morgue/news1997/10309701.htm And please, give Barbara a call! Me? I think I am writing her a letter, suggestion a full blown ad campaign! I mean, this memo was enough to make me quit dumping my bags of feces alongside Iowa roads, but if this really is a problem I think the public needs to be made aware!

Oh, what I wouldn’t give for a pre 9/11/01 world again, when this is what Iowa’s government was concerned about.