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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Streets of San Francisco Are Covered in Human Shit
Poop on Mission Street. Poop between cars. Poop in the alley. Poop in the Tenderloin. Poop in the escalatorso much poop that the escalator breaks down under the strain of all that poop. Everywhere you look, San Francisco residents are saying, there is poop, poop, poop.
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Counterpoint: it's a little funny. There's a nice poetic justice to the gilded paradise of new-money tech-dudes teeming with the inescapable waste of people left behind or displaced by the awful march of disruption.
But the jokes come as a consequence of a pressing and critical problem: Homelessness. And a sore lack of public facilities that homeless people are accessible to homeless people. Will Kane at Ratter, the local-reporting site launched by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio, dove into the issue last month:
While tourists and shoppers can sneak into a hotel or store and use the bathroom many people who don't have access to a bathroom during the day "get turned away because they are poor, and they are black," Friedenbach said. "Human beings do not want to defect or urinate in public. It is not natural and they do so out of desperation because they have no where else to go."
http://justice.gawker.com/the-streets-of-san-francisco-are-covered-in-human-shit-1679930931/+tcberman
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)As one of my uncles loved to say:
Either bury me for free, or I'll stink up the town. Your choice.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)but not nearly enough.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I curse Boston for their scarcity, but SF seems worse.
Maybe the stench of feces covered sidewalks will wake up some enlightened self-interest.
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)available throughout the cities in France are always clean and easy to use, and so far, I've never seen anyone boinking in them, which, after all, is what Americans are afraid will happen!
No one can sleep in them because they hose themselves down after each use. And, after a specific time, the doors open automatically.
It's just common sense.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I'm not sure what ended up happening to that plan, or why
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Couldn't a city that prides itself on its liberal reputation find a few bucks in the budget for public toilets that are accessible to the homeless? An honest effort to end homelessness would be better, but I quit holding my breath waiting for that a long time ago.
Rex
(65,616 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)Yes, every morning when I left for work, I had to step over steaming (and stinking) piles of human excrement. . .
It's pretty easy to know when it's from a human; the smell is very, very particular!