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Harvey Milk Plaza removes benches
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 2, 2012 | by Vivian Ho

Posted on 11/02/2012 8:28:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The purple benches at San Francisco's Harvey Milk Plaza were removed Friday following growing complaint that they had become a loophole for drunks and others to avoid the city's ordinance prohibiting sitting or lying on walkways.

The removal decision was made earlier this week by the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District, the community group that paid $40,000 to install the benches in 2010.

"It's about time," said Dan Glazer, owner of the nearby bakeshop Hot Cookie. "They pee, they defecate and they leave their garbage there. They have no respect for the plaza or for Harvey Milk and what he meant to our community."

But Hot Cookie employee Dylan Burditt disagreed.

"Generally, they're around, but that's just San Francisco," he said. "I think it's a drastic choice. Just because certain people are complaining, everybody else has to suffer (without benches)."

Jane Haggerstone, an employee at Sunday's Tanning Salon across from the plaza, echoed that sentiment.

"It's a shame because a lot of people have to wait for the buses and it would be nice for them to sit," she said.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezone; failure; harveymilk; homosexualagenda; liberals; socialism; urban; vermin
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1 posted on 11/02/2012 8:28:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

*snicker*


2 posted on 11/02/2012 8:30:38 PM PDT by TXBlair (You voted for Obama to prove you're not racist; now vote for Romney to prove you're not stupid.)
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To: TXBlair

I’ll see your snicker and raise you two guffaws.


3 posted on 11/02/2012 8:32:12 PM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"It's about time," said Dan Glazer, owner of the nearby bakeshop Hot Cookie. "They pee, they defecate and they leave their garbage there. They have no respect for the plaza or for Harvey Milk and what he meant to our community."

Neither do I, but I would express it in a somewhat different manner.

4 posted on 11/02/2012 8:36:01 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We used to enjoy going to SF for a weekend to get away. The last couple of times we went, the homeless guys were so aggressive it was terrible. Haven’t been back in years and no plans to go.


5 posted on 11/02/2012 8:37:32 PM PDT by luv2ski
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"They pee, they defecate and they leave their garbage there. They have no respect for the plaza or for Harvey Milk and what he meant to our community."

I thought harvy milk was all about degeneracy and public exhibitionism. So what's the problem?!!

6 posted on 11/02/2012 8:38:31 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: luv2ski
Been there many times. I think the last time I was there was 1989 right after the earthquake. I have no intention of returning. I prefer to recall The City as it once was. Let the current inhabitants stew in their own filth without my help.
7 posted on 11/02/2012 8:41:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Get out of the way! please! Oh my, this is terrible... Oh, the humanity! ...


8 posted on 11/02/2012 8:44:09 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maybe they just need some new signs:


9 posted on 11/02/2012 8:45:55 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mighty intolerant of the gays who ram “tolerance” down our throats, if you ask me.


10 posted on 11/02/2012 8:45:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TXBlair

I was invited to the Google symposium a few weeks back and went to DT SF. It’s worse than L.A. downtown. It is ironic that the a park named after a fudgepacker is intolerant towards another minority.


11 posted on 11/02/2012 8:47:03 PM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: luv2ski

Yup, Had to go there three times a year for meetings. After the third time I had to walk by a turd laying in the entrance of the office building I had to go to I told them forget it! Never went back! The creeps in SF can be seen in the eyes of San Fran Nan!


12 posted on 11/02/2012 8:47:58 PM PDT by TaMoDee ( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2012! Allez Pack!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

San Francisco is where culture left the arts and crawled into a petri dish.


13 posted on 11/02/2012 8:48:26 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Frisco is such a filthy, grimy, icky place.

I reside not too far from Frisco, but I only go there once every 10 years or so, and then only with extreme reluctance for something absolutely unavoidable.

Frisco IS a urinal...it's an icky, sick, sick place.

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14 posted on 11/02/2012 8:51:54 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: TXBlair

*snicker*

No, silly. It wasn’t a snicker. It was a twinkie.


15 posted on 11/02/2012 8:59:11 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_WG3d3GL8


16 posted on 11/02/2012 9:02:44 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Pray for Joe Biden- Proverbs 29:9)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why aren’t the rich liberals taking care of these homeless people?


17 posted on 11/02/2012 9:03:24 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Harvey Milk and what he meant to our community."

He "meant" men sticking their penis in another man's anus.

And that's it.

18 posted on 11/02/2012 9:04:29 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Having seen old film footage, I would have loved to have visited San Francisco back in the 1940s and 1950s. It looked marvelously inviting and atmospheric.

Nowadays? No chance in hell I’ll ever step one foot into that diseased, cretin-infested cesspool. Perhaps the only good thing I can think about it is that it helpfully serves as a magnet for degenerates and their liberal enablers, drawing them like flies to feces, away from decent people and decent communities.


19 posted on 11/02/2012 9:09:25 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; al baby
"They pee, they defecate and they leave their garbage there

Folsom Street festival??

20 posted on 11/02/2012 9:10:05 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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