Posted on 08/16/2018 9:31:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
San Francisco has a real problem. In fact, you could say that it stinks. That problem is that there's too much feces on the sidewalks in San Francisco.
The city has fielded about 15,000 calls regarding turds on the streets since January 1 — an average of 65 calls every day! And it's not just irresponsible dog owners, though they certainly are part of the issue. No, San Francisco has to worry about human fecal matter, thanks to a homeless population that runs rampant with not enough places to go to the bathroom.
The poop problem is so bad that San Franciscans have grown accustomed to watching their step to avoid piles of the nasty stuff. And now, the city has approved a new squad of sanitation employees to take care of the waste matter in neighborhoods where the issue has gotten particularly out of hand.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed spoke with Heather Knight of the San Francisco Chronicle about the new team of poop cleaners: “I’ve been talking to the Department of Public Works director on a regular basis, and I’m like, ‘What are we going to do about the poop?’” she said.
“[Public Works director Mohammed Nuru] and I talked about coming up with some different solutions,” she explained. “I just want the city to be clean, and I want to make sure we’re providing the resources so that it can be.”
Additionally, the city has allocated $1.05 million to build five more public toilets to add to the 22 already located in different neighborhoods. One of the problems with these restroom stations, called Pit Stops, is that they're only open during typical business hours, leaving the overnight period for the homeless to do their business out in the open.
Homeless people are also using the Pit Stops for purposes other than the original intent. People nap in them or use them to relax in other ways, and one volunteer who helps take care of them says that he has seen the Pit Stops used for "target practice."
One entrepreneur who is working to help the homeless with hygiene told the Chronicle that the "poop patrol" is a step in the right direction, but it's not enough.
Doniece Sandoval, the founder of an organization that provides mobile facilities to the homeless population in the area, said, “We need our streets cleaned up, so I love that they’re doing the Poop Patrol,” she said. “But there’s no doubt about the fact that we need more public bathrooms. Everywhere we can, we need to make them available. For our unhoused neighbors and everyone in the city, when you need to be able to find a facility, it shouldn’t be this massive challenge.”
Excrement in the streets isn't a new problem in San Francisco. As far back as 2016, the Bay Area Rapid Transit authority dealt with feces on escalators, a struggle that continues to this day.
It's a disgusting issue to talk about — and it's tough not to chuckle like an 8-year-old at the mention of poop. But the underlying issue is bigger than dirty streets.
Reliably liberal San Francisco hasn't done enough to solve the problem of homelessness. Instead of cracking down on homeless people fouling up the streets, leaders choose to throw up their hands and focus on cleanup. Rather than create an atmosphere where these folks can get jobs and/or mental health treatment and better their lives, the city just accepts that people are going to use the sidewalks as toilets.
Yes, homelessness is always going to be a problem. But San Francisco's leadership has made its choice to put up with the problem as it is, as opposed to working harder to decrease the number of homeless and make it less of an issue. And that's a stinking shame.
Now there’s a government job with potential!
“But there’s no doubt about the fact that we need more public bathrooms. Everywhere we can, we need to make them available. For our unhoused neighbors and everyone in the city, when you need to be able to find a facility, it shouldn’t be this massive challenge.”
She’s not entirely wrong. There are obviously some who would use the facilities. OTOH, there’s just as many who’ll still continue to defecate in the streets or use the toilets as a place to use drugs or sleep.
Now there’s a plan Nancy Pelosi can really, really be proud of!
The politicians should be made to clean up the mess they made.
The RICH need to clean up their “fair share” of poop!!
A welfare recipient I knew in WV in the ‘70’s always threw his trash out the car window because in the spring, they’d hire him for more money to clean it up.
The Poop Patrol
Mission: Ambush
“OK, Grisetti, your job is to set up the Bath Gel Claymores. Remember....don’t set them off until the target has squatted.
Johnson, Stevens, Caswelll! You form this side of the ambush. When the Brown hits the ground everything goes down. You hit the kill zone with the high pressure hoses.
Mendez! You sack the scat. I want it off the sidewalk and on Nancy Pelosi’s lawn in three minutes!
If everything goes to shirt, we call in naval gunfire and hook it back to the Mayor’s office.”
democrap run feces pile.
And how much of that are people tracking into offices, stores and homes.
An obvious health crisis.
How did this start? SF govt said it was ok? then complain when people do what they said to do?
Hey Coastal America, non voters, “moderates” “Social liberals” et al . . . . THIS is what YOU GET when you put that sort of SICK MINDSET in charge
WAKE UP . . . THINK for a change
PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL POLICIES CREATE JOBS!
A big problem with poop in the streets is that it dries up and poop particles become airborne and people breath them.
So liberals are now dragging us back 130 years to a time before automobiles.
Transportation then was horse-powered.
People rode them, they pulled produce carts, trams, and freight wagons transporting goods of all kinds.
And everywhere the horses went they made a deposit.
So there were people employed in the cities to scrape up the poop and wheel it away in barrels.
Now liberals have reinvented the job of Pooper Scooper.
What’s next? Leeches as a medical device?
PROGRESS AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE!
San Franshitco
Democrats create these horrible problems in the cities they run... then they come up with ‘solutions’ that are new horrors.
One more reason NOT to let Democrats do to the country what they’ve don’t to the cities they control.
The Poop Patrol of San Francisco
Western Civilization has faced many challenges.
Who are these brave souls and how do they do it, day after day, pile after pile..?
In HazMat suits, no doubt.
I left my poop in San FransickO.
Or homosexually hook up in “public bathrooms”
Esp in that city
The city of San Francisco looking to hire people who really know their sh!t.
When I was a kid, “poop” was kind of a personal problem. Now, the far left dildos have made “poop” EVERYBODY’S problem. Just look at how far America has “progressed” under the “progs”. ROTFL.
San Francisco’s volunteer army of job creators!
They aren’t just worthless, smelly, irritating bums anymore!
Now they are delivery systems for a product that creates jobs!
The city should hire the bums who poop in the streets as the Pooper Scoopers to clean up theuir own poop..
That would be something like a perpetual motion system.
As long as there are still some taxpayers to finance the idiocy.
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