“Those are beautiful garbage cans… for me to poop on!”
Posted on 08/13/2022 4:18:11 PM PDT by grundle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco.
That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern California city, along with piles of used clothes, shoes, furniture and other items strewn about on sometimes-impassable sidewalks.
City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000 each. This summer, residents have the opportunity to evaluate them along with three off-the-shelf options added to the pilot program after officials faced criticism.
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What’s worse than out of control government?
Incompetent out of control government.
How much is going to cost to train the local bums to put stuff in the can? Is it comfortable to sleep in?
Wasn’t SF the city that changed manhole covers to maintenance-hole covers at the expense of the taxpayer?
But the good looks of the shiny new trash cans have not protected them from vandalism and disrespect. Three weeks after being unveiled, several have already been tagged with orange and white graffiti. Others already show the drip stains of inconsiderate coffee drinkers or have attracted dumping, with people leaving dilapidated bathroom cabinets and plastic bags full of empty wine bottles next to them.
I have a solution for overflowing trash cans…just dig a deep hole underneath.
Works for outhouses too…which I hear SF is short of too
My constipation treatment.
Soon to be a meth head toilet.
A city overflowing in billionaires with too many business ideas which fleece the taxpayers.
No doubt the “design firm” is a minority-owned business entity.
“Those are beautiful garbage cans… for me to poop on!”
The solution is clearly to upgrade the residents, not the trashcans.
A better class of residents will cheerfully use inexpensive cans properly.
Sounds like they want to put in 200 cu ft of trash is a 3 cu ft unit. Better idea for that money is a trash compactor. If a bum falls asleep in it? Oh well.
I bid $25K!
/sarc
Follow the money. Betcha anything this firm is connected to whoever awarded the contract and will funnel a fair chunk back to that person or their political campaign.
Looks like a Dalek.
“Exterminate!”
LOL!
SF might improve if they released a couple of those on the streets instead.
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