Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever

Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by ShellGh0st on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:52PM (#14649320)

In many southern tech cities corning someone and yelling at/assaulting them with unknown fluids is a great way to get shot. We recently hired a CA transplant to the dev team and he was shocked how many of us carried.

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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by placeybordeaux on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:59PM (#14649376)

Do you feel like your life is threatened when someone throws a cup of liquid at you?

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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by throwanem on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:25PM (#14650113)

If I'm cornered by a crazy man who's shouting and dousing me - if it hits me in the face, quite literally inoculating me - with God knows what? Even here in duty-to-retreat Baltimore, you'd have a hard time calling that other than self-defense.

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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by milesokeefe on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:04PM (#14649422)

Not relevant to the parent comment but in places like the UK where acid attacks aren't uncommon, that can be a concern.

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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by Balero on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:38PM (#14650188)

Acid attacks are incredibly uncommon in the UK

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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by somecontext on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:08PM (#14651212)

For anyone curious about the rate, these articles https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/27/acid-at... https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/z4dy43/why-acid-attacks-h... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4462016/Two-acid-att... suggest that (on average) there is more than one attack per day in London alone.

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