Tragedy leads to no camping at Cottonwood, AZ Walmart

joanne0012 wrote:
Doeesn't this fall under the phrase grandma used to use about "locking the barn door after the horse is stolen"? According to the article, the camping ban had been the store's policy for some time, but had not been enforced.

Because enforcement brings it's own issues. Kicking people out is eventually going to make for some uncomfortable press. The local news will eventually run a report about how the evil big company selectively evicts only the poor people if they only go after things like the suburban full of nutcases. Or, forums like this are going to have threads started about how all the person was doing was protecting the public by getting a few hours of sleep (after all you can't drive sleepy, and that is Walmart's problem) and they were forced back onto the road creating danger for everyone if they enforce it very tightly. It is a no win scenario. Plus no one really likes to be the bad guy who has to enforce rules, so it is easy to turn the blind eye until something bad happens, and in this case the something bad was really really bad.