You may remember New London as the victorious party in the Kelo v New London Supreme Court decision.
Of course, the Supreme ruled that new London had more knowledge of how best to use a private individual's property than the individual's who actually owned it.
So how's that knowledge working out?
Well the city spent 11 million dollars on a port-o-let disguised as a whale tail...........
Tuesday morning, two downtown office workers were enjoying their coffee break on the Parade plaza at the foot of State Street.Susan Mumford and Gayle Boudreau love the openness of the redesigned space, the flowers spilling out of pots and the water flowing over the whale tail sculpture.
They were disappointed when the city shut off the fountain this weekend after an intoxicated homeless man was discovered last week washing off in the fountain after defecating in his pants. But they were not surprised.
They said they have seen people drinking, urinating and fighting on the Parade.
"I know they're trying to make it nice and attract people here,'' Boudreau said. "But who wants to come here and read a book if you have drunk people falling down the stairs or yelling at you?''
Early Friday morning, Deputy Police Chief Marshall Segar was driving by when he saw a man in the fountain.
Andrew Cook, 47, who has no fixed address, had defecated in his pants and was washing himself off in the fountain, police said. He was taken to the hospital for an evaluation and was charged with disorderly conduct. He was also arrested on an outstanding warrant for second-degree threatening.
Lovely.
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