San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on open-air drug use

Re:San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on ... by pmoriarty on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:41AM (#27663323)

"You may think it isn't a crime to shit in public, and stand in the middle of the street moaning and pissing yourself because you are so high you are mostly catatonic."

You think these people prefer to shit in public?

Lots of them are sick (mentally and physically) and drugs and alcohol can make one lose control of one's bowels or bladder.

When you have to go you have to go, and there are very few public toilets in SF, and many businesses just won't let homeless people or people who look poor use their bathrooms, especially not in places where there's a large homeless population, like the Tenderloin.

So where are these people supposed to go?

If SF residents really wanted to do something effective about all the shit and piss in the streets they'd build many, many more public bathrooms and lift people out of poverty. But they don't.

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Re:San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on ... by merpnderp on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:59AM (#27687931)

"You think these people prefer to shit in public?"

Yes I do. Shitting in a plastic bag is available to everyone. Peeing in privacy behind a dumpster is available to everyone. Taking any half assed steps towards public hygiene is available to everyone. I've seen a homeless drug addict stick the water fountain bubbler into his bunghole while he was washing his ass with it.

The same reason they aren't shitting into bags and throwing them in the trash, or peeing into storm drains, is the same reason they're homeless - addiction makes people into sociopaths.

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