[Popeye]

Jeffrey Rodack
24 September 2019


Residents in a San Francisco neighborhood have lined a sidewalk with boulders in an effort to stop homeless people from camping out, KTVU-TV is reporting.

About 24 boulders line a half-block of sidewalk on Clinton Park, a residential side street not far from Market and Dolores streets. Neighbors are trying to keep drug users from shooting up in their street.

"They'll shoot up and stay overnight," said David Smith-Tan, a resident.

He said neighbors chipped in a few hundred dollars and came up with the boulders.

“It has helped,” neighbor Ernesto Jerez told the television station.

Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homeless, noted: "There's actually a name for it. It's called anti-homeless architecture."

Similar measures have been put in place in other sections of the city.

"It's something,” Jerez said. “We've got to do something. I feel like there is nothing being done.”

Meanwhile the city’s public works department said the it had nothing to do with the boulders. And a spokeswoman said since the boulders are not blocking the sidewalk, the city is not planning to remove them.




https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/san-francisco-homeless-boulders-camps/2019/09/24/id/934076/

 

[LRDGCO]

Or,they could stop voting for Communists.

 

[edspdog]

Town near here bolted chunks of wood across the middle of the public benches so the homeless could not lay flat on them and sleep. Never heard so much whining against them in all my life.

 

[Stevejet]

I recall Vagrancy and Loitering Laws being enforced in the 1950's to keep the "hobo's" from becoming nuisances in and around Salt Lake City and later Portland, Oregon. Most were rail-riders who overnighted or rested a bit in the "hobo-jungles" in fields and woods near the railroad yards. Many of these guys were "at loose ends" WWII and Korean War veterans who really never could "mix" all that well into society and didn't have homes or families to retuirn to or were just not welcomed back, I suppose.

Different people, those "hobo's" and today's addicted and mentally-ill homeless. But enforcement of the local laws and ordinances prevented "the bums" from "settling-in or homesteading" in public places.

 

[Square target]

So won't the homeless just now tie their tarps to the boulders and now have solid walls? Sort of like when we were kids and used furniture and blankets to build "forts" in our parents living rooms. probably won't matter anyway, i can see the city setting up needle distribution booths in this neighborhood to combat these vile, racist, homophobic, misogynist (and any other mean adjective you can think of) residents.

 

[KILTED COWBOY]

Just put up a Help Wanted/ Now hiring sign in the storefront window and watch them scatter.
I think I would just tie up my German Shepherd to the sidewalk in front of my store.

 

[Mad Scientist]

I think I would just tie up my German Shepherd to the sidewalk in front of my store.

Someone would probably steal the dog.

 

[KILTED COWBOY]

Someone would probably steal the dog.

Good luck with that, you would have to be pretty brave or stupid to mess with him.

 

[Stevejet]

Well, consider who and what is being discussed here. I feel for the security of the dog!

 

[KILTED COWBOY]

Well, consider who and what is being discussed here. I feel for the security of the dog!

That dog is smarter than those creatures crapping in the street.
And he knows where he is supposed to go relieve himself.

 

[Stevejet]

We are all smarter than those creatures crapping in the streets. But I'd still stay away from them and make sure my dog was vaccinated too,