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So You've Decided to Map Sidewalk Poop in San Francisco...
citylab ^ | 11-20-2014 | JOHN METCALFE

Posted on 11/22/2014 7:07:27 AM PST by Citizen Zed

San Francisco is a weird magnet for poop. Travel around the city in the grimmest of Easter Egg hunts, and you'll find turds basking on sidewalks, chilling in flower gardens, gumming up subway escalators—hell, you'll even find them littering the roof of a three-story building with no roof access.

I assumed upon moving here this was the marking of irresponsible dog owners. I wish I could still believe that. But Jennifer Wong has torn the brown veil asunder with "(Human) Wasteland," a revolting map of all the anthropogenic excrement around San Francisco.

Wong's venture into crappy cartography began with her needing a hack-week project for her company, HotPads. So the San Francisco native scoured the web for "cool" data sets, and found that the Department of Public Works, for whatever reason, keeps records of sidewalk cleanings for reason of "human waste or urine."

"Honestly, the data inspired me," she emails.

(Excerpt) Read more at citylab.com ...


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To: CodeToad
The San Francisco Treat!

And Nanny-State Pelosi is the San Francisco Twit.

21 posted on 11/22/2014 7:55:27 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: carriage_hill

When Jesus Christ was talking about hell in the bible he was talking about a geographical area in Jerewsalem where they tree their garbage, dung, and dead bodies in this small valley.
This is what hell is like with rotting corpses, demons tormenting with no way out for eternity.
That bumper sticker that says all religions should co exist ? Hell no ?
If this is what Hinduism has to offer ? They are crazy.
By the way ?
With all this crap in San Fransisco ? It figures, what would anyone expect from fudge packers.


22 posted on 11/22/2014 8:32:19 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Citizen Zed
San Francisco is a weird magnet for poop. Travel around the city in the grimmest of Easter Egg hunts, and you'll find turds basking on sidewalks,

Right...and most of them are on welfare and collect foodstamps. Some, like Pelosi, are even in Washington.

23 posted on 11/22/2014 8:59:21 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: fhayek

There’s lots of worn out spinkters that can’t hold it in.


24 posted on 11/22/2014 9:02:17 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Citizen Zed

That isn’t “poop”...they are just uncounted votes for LIBs/DIMs & Clown Prince nobama.


25 posted on 11/22/2014 9:02:22 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Citizen Zed

“I left a load in San Francisco.
High up it piled
It called to Rosie.”


26 posted on 11/22/2014 9:24:31 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Citizen Zed

“Hi Dave! How’s that son of yours doing?”

“Oh, Gene? He has a government job in San Francisco.”

“He’s a fireman?”

“No, he looks for crap.”

“.............really..........nice seeing you.”


27 posted on 11/22/2014 9:28:06 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: American Constitutionalist

Indians in India bathe in the feces-filled
Ganges to wash sins. I think I could do
an hour’s sermon on this, and on this dichotomy
about San Francisco:

Public health authorities in the City say,
“Wash your hands before you eat,” but they
would never, for reasons of political
correctness, say, “Don’t put anything in
your mouth that has just been in contact
with fecal matter.” The smartphone app
Grindr brings the Castro district bathhouse
to every City block. Look it up.


28 posted on 11/22/2014 9:30:12 AM PST by WKTimpco
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To: Citizen Zed

When they allowed people to go nude in public did they have a seat poop map?.


29 posted on 11/22/2014 9:40:12 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: right way right

Birds don’t have sphincters. They evolved that way because the less weight helped them fly. They really can’t help it when they crap on your windshield. I can see the parallel here.


30 posted on 11/22/2014 10:20:15 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Citizen Zed

It takes a sanctuary city.


31 posted on 11/22/2014 12:07:53 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s quite easy to identify human poop left on the streets of SF: just see if it’s hollow tipped. The Castro district would have the highest percentage of these.


32 posted on 11/22/2014 12:10:04 PM PST by An American in Turkiye
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To: Citizen Zed
“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson

33 posted on 11/22/2014 12:17:54 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Nifster

Those are the crappiest sections of town....


34 posted on 11/22/2014 3:15:03 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Evil had been contained in the Castro, Mission Tenderloin, SOMA and other districts for many decades; it’s now been loosed throughout the entire city for years. Once a beautiful and magical city, it’s a festering sewer now.


35 posted on 11/22/2014 4:16:15 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Being SF i bet that over half those poops didn’t come from a dog....


36 posted on 11/22/2014 5:08:19 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: USNBandit

true words


37 posted on 11/22/2014 8:09:14 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Citizen Zed; Slings and Arrows; GeronL
It's a San Fransicko thing...


38 posted on 11/23/2014 9:21:22 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: WKTimpco

Only been to SanFransicko once , and that only in transfer from one plane to another on my way to Hong Kong.
I have no desire to go to either SanFransicko, California ( unless I get married and my future wife has relatives there , and only that reluctantly ) or India.


39 posted on 11/23/2014 5:34:16 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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