“People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway.”
Bum-run San Franciso gets what they need.
“People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway.”
Bum-run San Franciso gets what they need.
“Fifteen years later, the environment has moved so far in the ACLU direction that the Board of Supervisors actually debated whether it should be against the law to shit on the sidewalk.”
From one poster above we learn that San Francisco is regressing to the medieval times where is was accepted that one disposed of the waste bucket from the second story window out onto the street.
Looks like public sanitation is an issue in SF.
I wonder if the Board of Supervisors is supportive of THE PLAGUE as well?
Man, this next election down there is going to be a trip! What are all the moonbats going to do without George?
I went to San Francisco once as a lad. All things considered, I was unimpressed. Well, some of the houses were painted pretty nice, I’ll give ’em that. Didn’t run into any aggressive bums until I hit LA.
Was accosted by two of them on a fancy street by the beach. Million dollar homes, Ferraris parked at the curb and dangerous smelly guys up in my face demanding money. Pretty shocking for a Canadian boy on holiday.
Possibly that was the beginning of my interest in pistols. Just one of those life shaping moments I could do nicely without, brought to you by your friendly socialist moonbat government.
This really doesn’t surprise me.
Anyone who craps on San Francisco whether metaphorically or in an actual squat, gets a big thank your from me.
Until the progressive deviant whackos are driven out of that city, it is may the crapping continue unabated.
My feelings exactly JW and when they have finished send them all up to help our crappers crap on Victoria. Same mentality same idiots in charges same do gooder supporting morons that let this take place.
A few random comments from someboy who has spent more than thirty years living within thirty-five miles of San Francisco, but who is, at heart, still a small-town boy from the midwest:
San Francisco was actually an extraordinarily nice city the first time I set foot in it in December 1971. It was very clean, there weren’t crazy people wandering the streets, and I encountered no panhandlers, although I walked its streets for several miles. Of course, it was (and still is, from afar) a breathtakingly beautiful city. In short, it wasn’t like this.
That had started to change by 1980. Drug use was rampant, and many neighborhoods that had been save a few years before were very dangerous.
In mid-1999, I took a job in San Francisco. The location was 1155 Market Street, between Seventh and Eighth Streets (don’t ask me why an address between Seventh and Eighth Streets has an address like 1155, instead of 7XX), directly across Market Street from UN Plaza. I was panhandled constantly any time I left the building. When I arrived in the morning, there were people sleeping in most of the doorways and in dumpsters. I would frequently see people urinating on the sides of buildings, and frequently encounter clearly deranged people walking the streets. In nearly two years there, I never once saw a uniformed policeman, although I did spot a few undercover officers. I drew the conclusion that the government of San Francisco (which is its own county) really wasn’t interested in solving the problem.
Some other cities in the USA have some of the same problems. I have, for example, found panhandlers to be a real problem in Boston. Many others, however, do not; Chicago comes to mind. It seems to be purely a question of what the residents of a city will tolerate. It’s a matter of will, not of resources.
While it’s, I’m sure, possible to “hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in [your] doorway”, I don’t think that hating George Bush is entirely unrelated to tolerating people crapping in your doorway, panhandling, and wandering the streets while raving irrationally. If you believe that our way of life is worth something, you’re, I think, far less likely to tolerate behavior like this. If you work hard for your money, you’re, I think, far less tolerant of people who want you simply to give them money.
Same deal for Vancouver and Toronto…. same kind of idiots calling the shots!
Actually OMMAG I think Vancouver is way worse, they have legitimized a whole mini-city of drug use and the associated anti-social behavior and poverty -the downtown east side.
Politicians, academics and do-nothing socialists have and continue to make a handsome salary by perpetuating the hell-hole.
Success here is measured as getting a junkie to shoot up in a clean room with a needle provide by the taxpayer then depositing the needle in a sharps container. This is considered a mighty feat worthy of many millions of taxpayer support!
The junkie is then free to stumble around outside begging for money for the next hit, visiting one of the numerous free food distribution centres, maybe breaking into a number cars for loose change, oh and of course crapping and peeing in the street.
I have to ditto Silicone Valley Jim:
I lived in Northern California from my USAF days in the 1970’s until the 1990’s. San Francisco WAS a beautiful city, with all sorts of great tourist spots, many world class restaurants, a wonderful year-round climate and (mostly) very nice people. I always enjoyed my visits to San Francisco and the Bay Area.
What ruined San Francisco is what Silicone Valley Jim alluded to. The extreme leftist ethos which managed to take over public discourse as well as the municipal and county government ruined what was one of the world’s most livable cities.
From what many others have written here, it’s also what has ruined Vancouver, Toronto (and is doing a job on a number of European cities as well). That’s just one facet of the destructiveness of modern Leftist-ism in Western Civilization.
Ditto about San Fran. Was (and still could be) a nice place to visit and spend some time but the lunitics have taken over the asylum and are now running the place (into the ground). I’m almost afraid to revisit Victoria which was a nice place back in the seventies (ouch! dating myself).
This is a first-amendment behaviour and no-one wants to step on that.
I wonder if the Board of Supervisors is supportive of THE PLAGUE as well?
Don’t be so hasty there – they might think that such a development might solve the overpopulation problem. After all, the planet is positively infested with human beings, the source of all evil. If only the world was full of cute, fluffy bunnies having tea parties every afternoon…