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'Disturbing' photos highlight drug, homelessness issues in San Francisco's SoMa
SFGate ^ | October 4, 2016 | Dianne de Guzman

Posted on 10/04/2016 10:59:19 PM PDT by aquila48

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To: aquila48

Bums LLC.


21 posted on 10/05/2016 6:07:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Persevero

They will grow up and move away.
I did


22 posted on 10/05/2016 6:11:59 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: aquila48

The comments at the link are all hating on the Democrats. Interesting, since commenters are presumably San Francisco locals.
Wouldn’t it be fun if Trump sweeps a few of the liberal dumps like SF ?


23 posted on 10/05/2016 6:37:07 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again)
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24 posted on 10/05/2016 7:46:30 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: HereInTheHeartland

“They will grow up and move away.
I did”

San Francisco is a different dynamic now. We are in the midst of a tremendous tech boom. Every big league player in the tech industry has a site here, typically massive sites. For example, Sales Force is building the biggest tower in SF history downtown right now. Construction absolutely everywhere.

So these young mostly men are hard working, well educated, highly paid professionals. For now some seem to think it’s cool to stumble over a junkie on the way to work, but many are appalled and some are frightened. It’s ugly and it’s dangerous.

Many are of the Moslem and Hindu persuasion, and they are not impressed with this sort of behavior, either.

So I just wonder, if something will give. Not holding my breath. But the character and tenor of SF has changed, getting more of a Libertarian vibe as best I read it.


25 posted on 10/05/2016 10:10:58 AM PDT by Persevero (NUTS)
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To: cherry

” could never and would never visit a restaurant if I had to have bums, feces, urine etc to walk thru... “

It’s a little funny to see all the employees of Air BnB and Twitter lined up outside the Vietnamese restaurant and other high Yelp score places, huddled together as they wait for their overpriced food, while winos stagger by, schizophrenics mutter along, and the smell of urine overcomes the savory cooking.


26 posted on 10/05/2016 10:12:33 AM PDT by Persevero (NUTS)
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To: arthurus

“It’s even fun for a little time but gets old after a bit.”

We don’t have so much drifters anymore but hard core meth and etc. addicts, drunks of course, and seriously crazy people.


27 posted on 10/05/2016 10:13:20 AM PDT by Persevero (NUTS)
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“The ACLU sued Ft. Collins, Co. and won in a case about pan-handlers.”

I have mixed feelings about panhandling. I’d like the freedom to ask someone, in public, for something (whether money, food, directions, a job, an opinion. . .). As long as it is not threatening or aggressive I tend to think it should be legal. Freedom of speech, expression.

But public drunkenness, public urination and defecation, public intoxication on any substance, threatening behavior, sleeping in public doorways or sidewalks unless felled by a sudden medical condition. . . I’d like to see laws against these things punishable with serious jail time.


28 posted on 10/05/2016 10:15:39 AM PDT by Persevero (NUTS)
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To: Bullish


Didn't you people learn ANYTHING

from the smoke of SODOM?

-- GOD


 

29 posted on 10/05/2016 7:40:58 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Persevero

I worked downtown for 11 years - left in 2008. Sounds like things just keep getting more polarized. At some point, reality has to eclipse Leftist dogma...or so you would think. :)


30 posted on 10/05/2016 7:53:30 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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