{"id":2021993,"date":"2023-09-05T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-mayor-says-third-world-stuff-happening-in-city-overrun-with-homeless-people-report\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:58:57","slug":"wyoming-mayor-says-third-world-stuff-happening-in-city-overrun-with-homeless-people-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-mayor-says-third-world-stuff-happening-in-city-overrun-with-homeless-people-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Mayor Says \u2018Third-World Stuff\u2019 Happening in City Overrun With Homeless People: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwyoming-mayor-says-third-world-stuff-happening-in-city-overrun-with-homeless-people-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021993&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>A City in Crisis: Homelessness Takes a Toll on Casper, Wyoming<\/h2>\n<p>A city in Wyoming\u200c has\u200d been overwhelmed with a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">growing number<\/a> of homeless \u200bpeople, who have damaged a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-asylum-seekers-granted-u-s-entry-under-biden\/\" title=\"25 asylum seekers granted U.S. entry under Biden\">local hotel<\/a> that would require millions of dollars\u2063 to fix and left hundreds of pounds of human feces in the downtown area, according to its mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Casper Mayor Bruce Knell, in an interview with local news media <a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2023\/08\/30\/homeless-squatters-trash-casper-hotel-getting-out-of-hand-mayor-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cowboy State Daily<\/a> published on Aug. 31, said the city\u2019s homeless population had topped about 200 people, creating \u201ca\u200d mess\u201d as \u2062they roam the city\u2019s parks and streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like nothing I\u2019ve ever \u200bseen. It\u2019s third-world country stuff happening \u2063in\u200b Casper, Wyoming,\u201d Mr. Knell said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/bright\/heading-to-the-mountains-for-the-fall-colors-and-festivals-5484412\">Heading to the Mountains for \u200dthe Fall Colors and Festivals<\/a> &#8211; 8\/31\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/judge-halts-wyomings-abortion-pill-ban-amid-lawsuit-5351901\">Judge Halts Wyoming&#8217;s Abortion Pill Ban Amid Lawsuit<\/a> &#8211; 6\/23\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey destroyed everything,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casper is Wyoming\u2019s second\u200b most populous city, with a population of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyoming-demographics.com\/cities_by_population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 60,000<\/a>,\u200b second behind the state\u2019s capital, Cheyenne.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, the\u200c city\u2019s vacant Econo Lodge motel, which had been closed\u2064 due to flooding, was taken \u2062over by homeless people, who caused millions in destruction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.imgix.net\/Casper-hotel-squatters-1-8.30.23.jpg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&#038;q=75&#038;auto=format%2Ccompress&#038;fit=clip&#038;w=2048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pictures<\/a> of the \u2063motel\u200d rooms published by \u200cthe outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.imgix.net\/Collage-Maker-30-Aug-2023-05-06-PM-1821.jpg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&#038;q=75&#038;auto=format%2Ccompress&#038;fit=clip&#038;w=2048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a> trash, towels, and bed\u2064 sheets littered across the floors.<\/p>\n<p>The city subsequently condemned the motel, and \u2064the bank that owned the property \u2062had to board it up to prevent homeless people from entering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was inhabitable, and it was unsafe,\u201d Mr.\u2064 Knell said.<\/p>\n<p>Other homeless people have moved \u2062into abandoned properties with no electricity or running water, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>Many homeless people loiter \u2062in the city&#8217;s downtown area, the mayor added, leaving behind\u2063 about 500 pounds of human feces that city staffers \u2064cleaned up. The loiterers have occupied parks and bike\u200b paths, while others \u2062choose\u2063 to\u200d sleep in their\u200b cars, Mr. Knell added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn desperate \u200ctimes, people do desperate things, and unfortunately, we\u2019re the \u2062ones left having to \u200cdeal with it,\u201d he said, adding\u2062 the homeless population was\u200c responsible for some of the city\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know very well\u200b we cannot litigate our way or arrest our way out\u200d of \u200cthe problem, but our police\u200c need some teeth to start dealing with the squatting,\u201d Mr. Knell said. \u201cThey\u2019re just causing so many problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 mayor explained that there has always been a small population of \u2064homeless\u2063 people in Casper, given the \u200cexistence of <a href=\"https:\/\/wyomission.org\/who-we-are\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyoming\u2062 Rescue Mission<\/a>, a homeless shelter founded in 1978. As a result, the problem with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-mayor-says-third-world-stuff-happening-in-city-overrun-with-homeless-people-report\/\" title=\"Wyoming mayor alarmed by homeless crisis, compares it to third-world conditions.\">current growing homeless population lies<\/a> \u200cwith those deciding to stay in the city after either failing to get admitted into the \u200bshelter or getting \u2062kicked out of\u200d it, according \u2064to Mr. Knell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a certain part of the homeless population, whether substance abuse or mental illness, that is getting them to where they don\u2019t want to conform to society\u2019s rules,\u201d Mr. Knell said. \u201cWhen they do\u2063 that, they\u2019re not allowed to go in the shelter, which means they\u2019re just out and about \u2064in our\u200c community \u200braising hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been some legislative\u200d proposals to tackle the homeless problem, the mayor added, and the\u2064 city council\u200b could vote on them as soon as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casperwy.gov\/cms\/One.aspx?portalId=63067&#038;pageId=84270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sept.\u200c 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These proposals include modifying the city code \u2063that requires suspected squatters to get <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city in Wyoming has been overwhelmed with a growing number of homeless people, who have damaged a local hotel that would require millions of dollars to fix and left hundreds of pounds of human feces in the downtown area, according to its mayor.Casper Mayor Bruce Knell, in an interview with local news media\u00a0Cowboy State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":2021994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}