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San Francisco Values!
…the act itself [public urination and defecation] didn’t become illegal until 2002, when a contentious debate within the the Board of Supervisors (one supervisor wanted to delay the ban until the city could prove it had enough public toilets to provide a legal alternative to potential violators) dissolved into a unanimous vote in favor of banning the act, and fining offending parties between $50 and $500.
Well, that fine will certainly discourage those who have jobs, homes, families, and something to lose. Yanno — those who wouldn’t do it anyway. Others? Not so much…
And San FranFreakshow is filled with Others.
The effects of the ban are unclear.
Also not so much….
When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco’s Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.
*running cupcake trains*
Currently, only seven out of 176 are out of service, assuring the agency of a 96 percent reliability rate, according to BART data.
That’s a far cry from May, when only 76.5 percent of escalators were working, well below BART’s 95 percent goal.
Wait… their goal is 95%?!? Not 100%? Yeah — that kind of enthusiasm for a job well done really makes me wanna ride their trains …thru their tube …underneath the Bay.
Srsly. This is the kind of outcome “San Francisco Values” creates; half-working, dangerous, disease-spreading public infrastructure.
An innovative plan would replace some street parking spaces with environmentally friendly public restrooms — facilities that do not flush or connect to the sewer system. Instead, human waste would be collected and someday possibly composted to add back into the ecosystem as plant fertilizer. …The cost would be $40,000 to $50,000 each.
See, a regular flush toilet wouldn’t be “eco” enough for SF. Yet this version would entail people employed to regularly “service” the facilities, the transportation [using gasoline!!!] of the material to new facilities, the “processing” to remove pathogens — all of which use carbon. At the end of the processing you are left with something filled with prescription — and non-prescription — drugs, some viruses and human DNA fragments. There is no way to remove those.
All those facilities would have to be ADA compliant; a real chore since the Federal and the State laws are different and conflicting, so it is actually impossible to comply with both leaving the way open for the professional ADA Lawsuit Crew.
Also, those who poop in the streets also have little worry about committing other crimes in the facilities; or just tearing them up for amusement’s sake.
All of which the natural and logical outcome of those San Francisco Values of zero consequences for / total acceptance of aberrant behavior and the drive to approach every goal in a “new and different” way.
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Moonbeam has a plan to fix it. The homeless can take over the high speed trains, because hardly anybody will ride them and after the homeless start crapping in the seats, nobody else will ride them.
He can claim taking care of the homeless, great ridership for the trains, and the homeless off the streets of LA and San Fran. He’ll ride that to another term, and all for a mere $100 bil or so.
well, I was going to ask about a blogger whose name I cant recall, but I didn’t think the newest thread would be this, um, icky, :-)
but here goes anyway;
Any of you long time blog readers remember a blog by a good looking blond lady who was in the army? She went by Cami, or Kami, but I ‘m pretty sure that was not her real name. Anyone remember what her blog was called? If she is still blogging?
The refusal to either learn from history or to use its lessons is the defining character of any form of collectivist/totalitarianist/enlightened-despotist. You know, the fantasy-driven sects.
San-Effin’sisco (doesn’t deserve anymore the old SF-snobs’ admonition not to call it ‘Frisco or other bourgeois non-”San Francisco” variants) sounds more and more like East Berlin.
(What? Well, what do you think that commonality might be?)
Oh, I don’t really blame them. All of their interpersonal encounters are with people as warped as they. There’s no “normal” to calibrate on. Reinforce that with the fantasy that geography drives creativity (hey, they’re near where Steve Jobs lived), and you get intelli-socio-political Brownian motion.
When the free food is cut off, the defecation problem automatically disappears.
Guy i know used to have to make his way through City Hall Park every day (woerked at the Ca. Supreme Court building) – he carried a big bottle of pepper spray and wasn’t afraid to deploy same when the horde off stinking bums rushed him.
Nobody said a word to him about it, either.
I started to think, “I don`t give a shit for Frisco”—-but then——mebbe I will……
(…don`t like *Frisco*? KO, how bout *San Franshitgo*?…)
San Franpissgo?
San Fescisco
Toilets have to be near the
RATzHobos. Putting on my thinking cap I fingered out how to make this the most possible.For a moderate cost, equip ALL Frisco police cars with a folddown toilet seat on both sides, on the car frame, aft of the back tires. Plumb them into the police trunk using hi-pressure air for flow. Police car gets off duty, his station has a truck that sucks out the trunk & deodorizes it w something inexpensive, like Aqua Velva. Trucks then go to Marin County and dump the contents.
Police cars are always patrolling near the Hoboes; thus the compromise convenience! ALSO—-trumps the OCCUPYShits—-too ;)
Just one more reason not to go near the place. When it falls or is pushed off the continental shelf, the pacific will be in seriously bad shape. But the earth will take care of it eventually.*
Or preemptive frisco caldera.
It is on the Ring of Fire, after all and who of us controls that?
It will be better if the good folks get out of there first.
*Hey, frisco subduction zone? That would sterilize it.
I’ve heard this story before and this is what happened just four years latter. I remember they had video of pimps chasing away people while there girls were “doing their business.
Oh yea I forgot, that boondoggle didn’t end well…
Since guys blow each other on the sidewalks, a little pooping doesn’t seem so bad.
Wellp …
God/nature tried to destroy that place before with quake and fire,
but they just rebuilt it.
Actually, I have no problem with them doin’ that there.
Means they ain’t doin’ it here.
Hey, big picture an’ all that.
So I guess this is really how Rome fell. Mass incompetence of the elected and appointed by a welfarist citizenry who just didn’t care as they partied while illegal aliens worked as their ‘slaves’.
California is the new Rome.
Reminds me of when Seattle put in these new public toilets and they were used for everything else butt.
Same thing happened in ‘Lympia, and now the locals refer to them as the Fairy Terminals.
So, now ‘Lympia just put in public wading areas using “reclaimed” water.
The Seattle toilets were taken out, sold in auction for pennies on the dollar, and now have a good home at a local race track, where race fans use them for their intended use.
And the liberal elite continue to peer down their noses at the uneducated red neck car race fans, who at least know the proper use of a rest room.
Go figure.
Public johns in Sodom by the Bay; some how I think that defecation will not be their primary use.
I’ve long since stopped trying to make sense of anything coming out of Frisco. They’re a black hole for smarts. It all goes in, nothing ever comes out.
176 escalators, goal is 95%, that’s 8.8 escalators
downbroken at any time.Anybody Out There from industry or some such, where Availability and Reliability figures are fairly important? Any of you able to match that stellar 95.000% figure?
The Worshipful City Fathers really should get in touch with their Parisian friends, who have had that one figured out for at least 100 years:
Paris Pissoir