Wow that really sucks, reminds me of when I used to go to glamis all the time. Spend a whole day riding around cleaning up after a big weekend. People wounder why we can't have fun stuff

Better start looking at city officials.....
These events have to be approved I imagine.
Money talks.

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We save our cans and bottles make about 70-100 bucks when we turn it in. Might have to just do a clean up next time make a few bucks for boat money. Plus it's the right thing to do

No kidding!


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That's just so sad to see even when I smoke on the lake or the river I put my cigarette out and put my butts in my pocket or in the boat disgraceful

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The total disregard and lack of respect for our resources seems to go along with the current entitlement mind set of so many people these days.

You may think you're entitled to a job that pays you 60k+ a year to start...
You may think you're entitled to take 2 parking spots with your pos Honda...
You may think you're entitled to follow that last car through the red light...
You may think you're entitled to 24" wheels on your Escalade and a Coach purse while your kid goes to school with nothing...
You may think you're entitled to walk away from that big house even though you knew you couldn't afford it (hardship understood).

F%$K YOU, you're entitled to wake up tomorrow morning (if your lucky)... everything else you can work for!

It goes so much further that that, but I feel you..

People still suck.

This is just sad!! People frustrate the shit out of me. It's like the trash is right there, set it in it. Or put the can/bottle back into the ice chest and take it home with you!

The worse part about all this is, the people that do this live it total filth because there house looks the same way with highly over grown plants! With a total disregard for anything or anyone but themselves! Without a care in the world to do anything about it! An entitlement someone else will do it, so I don't have too!


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Same here. My buddies float had a slow leak in it so nobody was using it so we turned it into a giant trash can. And at the end of the day when we got out we put it all in bags. It was that simple. GT you are 100% correct, they all should be punished, I feel like if this event were in california it would have been shut down already. If environmentalists or fish and game find out I hope they shut it down. Sad thing is, it brings laughlin way too much money, and money talks, so I have a feeling this won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Bull****

The answer is quite simple.... They need $100 K before they can hold the event, if the area is not BETTER when they leave, the $100K goes toward clean up and rehabilitation... Bet that only happens once....

GT

I will say this,  they did seem to have a cleaning crew cleaning the Davis camp, and other camps and launches/parking. To which extent I don't know. As for the beaches and parts of the river not as accessible,  who knows what's happened. I do know there was a ton of cans on the river bottom. That are probably gonna stay there

I attended this float ONCE in 2010. NEVER again. I refuse to support these. Its a shit show every year.

99% people there arent 'river people' that know basic etiquette of how to behave. The muscle head jocks feel out of place and threatened so they feel the need to fight everyone. The amount of trash is unbelievable. What nixonnow posted was just the stuff on the beach. What about all the crap that still in the river?!

After I swore I would never attend, the following year or two I was down in Willow Valley on the beach down there.....around 5-6 pm came a HUGE surge of trash floating down the river...beer cans, water bottles, tomatoes, bread...and even trash bags with trash in it ...the irony lol.....it was just disgusting to be in the river.

Someone over on RDP did a math equation that determined that the amount of people x how often the average person pees x how many hours the float is = 4-5 tanker trucks dumping pee into the river.

If a tanker truck drove up and dumped raw sewage into the river, dont you think SOMEONE would be upset?

This even should be banned from the river. Its only once a year and it brings a slew of destruction with it. The mayor just milks the shit out of it. I heard a radio interview on someones radio down in Aha Quin.....the mayor was participating in the float on the Pirates Cove pontoon. I'm sure it brings tons of revenue to the city, but it leaves a big black eye in the mean time.

I was in Havasu with my wife a few months ago to meet friend from socal and we were grossed out by the fact that they thought it was ok to pee in the lake or river even when there was a restroom close by. I'm not saying I've never pee'd in the water, but there has to be no other choice for me to do it!