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MyspaceIsla Vista beaches were closed last weekend due to a Floatopia scare—with a Facebook event estimating over 14,000 attendees. But the worry has extended to this weekend, as authorities suspect the event may have been postponed, and another closure is slated to occur April 9-10.
Two years has not been long enough for the authorities to forget Floatopia 2009: a beach party in Isla Vista where an estimated 12,000 people crammed onto the sand with inflatable pools and tubes and alcohol in hand. After the event the beach was filled with litter and human waste, according to the Santa Barbara County Parks Department. The Parks Department preemptively prevented a repeat by closing the beaches in 2010—for one weekend—on the expected date of the event.
For the second weekend in a row this year, the county announced that the beaches will be “closed to public entry to protect public health and safety and to protect the beach from excessive waste and litter.” The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department is slated to implement the closure.
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If you just have a surboard you should be allowed entry. No reason everyone should suffer because a buncha idiots have no life or sense of responsibility.
EZK (anonymous profile)
April 6, 2011 at 1:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree EZK. They should not close the place to those who are just going out to surf for a couple of hours. In fact, if you go out at Sands and paddle around the point, I doubt if the sheriff deputies and campus police are going to wade out into the surf to nab you.
Eckermann (anonymous profile)
April 6, 2011 at 1:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Last saturday it was raining and the cop was sitting at the top of the stairs like anybody was going to go to the beach while it was raining..
And yes, there were people surfing out at devs.
The first year of floatopia was so much bigger than expected that they hadn't considered cleaning up on such a scale. I don't think it would be a big deal to let them go for it and then let them and whoever wants to join the clean up after. I'm sure it wouldn't be the end of the world.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
April 8, 2011 at 12:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Loonpt.
Obviously you aren't aware that a huge turnout is from people out of town who could care less if they trash the beach. Did you see the pictures of how much trash was left on the beach after the last fiasco? Let alone the amount that washed out to sea that night and washed up as far south as carpinteria for days? Sorry, but trashing out beaches isn't high on the list of acceptable behavior for most Santa Barbarans
BeachFan (anonymous profile)
April 8, 2011 at 10:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Dopetopia to Nopetopia just like that. Great! A wonderful success! The Trashtards can go elsewhere and make their annual deposits.
Draxor (anonymous profile)
April 10, 2011 at 10:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)