It's tough to believe that anyone -- especially a city official -- actually thought this was a good idea. But it's downright bizarre that a plan so ridiculous, so "bird-brained" was actually implemented; city officials located the dung, transported it, spread it, so on and so forth. It was only after the negative press that the city manager had it cleared (and deodorized the area, apparently).

To many, this bird dung story will be kind of funny, really nasty, or completely outraging. But to me, it's just really sad.

Sad for the people who usually sat outside of those city buildings, most likely because they had nowhere else to sit. Now the whole world knows what city officials really think of them, perhaps even what they equate them to.

Sad that it takes an extreme story of such hate and ignorance to bring the issue of homelessness to the front of people's minds.

And sad because this story really isn't about homelessness at all. Because homelessness should be about not ha

WTF? Will muck up the place so that the people will leave? Sad, pathetic and downright disgusting.