Whatever happened to the Potty Police, anyway?

Ever since we learned of the Gahan administration's decision to "end sewer privatization," something's been nagging me, and finally I've realized exactly what it is.

New Albany's vigilante Potty Police have released no crayon-encrusted communiques of potted pontification, that's what.

In fact, what has happened to the Potty Police? Our local sewage spotters haven't been mentioned here in more than a year. Perhaps they've taken to the depths and are crashing on the Phantom of the Dope-ra's mattresses.

The New Albanist's Dictionary (compiled by your friendly blog host) provides a helpful definition:

Potty police
Self-deputized sewer enforcement officials with a localized Freudian twist who await the arrival of the g-man in the sewer submarine, who’ll come up from below and require a full audit.

Just think about those long years; as the city coped with the EPA's ongoing mandates, the Potty Police were there, tossing nickels around like blown manhole covers. Now they're gone. Or are they? Could this be their best undercoverground operation yet? Only time will tell.

From November, 2005, this might be the first mention of the Potty Police at NAC:

New Albany's POTTY POLICE take the LOW road, but only because that's the one leading DOWN to the sewer.

Today's Tribune column: "Take my city — please?"

When failure is the mantra, then there's only one way to make the prophecy self-fulfilling.

BAYLOR: Take my city — please?

Amazingly, others among us believe that the best way of coping with the sewer utility’s financial crisis is to take every last cent of the city’s economic development money, both now and for decades into the future, and use it as a subsidy for today’s rates. My 3rd district councilman, Steve Price, suggested exactly this approach, aloud, last week.

One fine flush in the open air museum.

You lose some, and then you lose some.

"I tawt I taw a potty police!"

"I did! I did taw a potty police!"

Yvonne Kersey avoids jail time, by Chris Morris (News and Tribune)

Former New Albany mayoral candidate Yvonne Kersey avoided jail time Thursday after pleading guilty to maintaining a common nuisance, a class D felony, but had three other charges against her, possession of marijuana, dealing marijuana and possession of paraphernalia, dropped.