City's so pee-tiful, we're raising a stink(homeless fouling everything with human waste)

Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 7/7/03 | DAN GERINGER

[Kevin Curry]

The fruits of liberalism blossom in their urban paradise

First Sodom Francisco CA, and now Philafilthia, PA.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving brace of Marxist communes.

[KneelBeforeZod]

at least it's not just us... (or you rather haha)

my friend lives in bernal heights...he was driving home and thought he saw a guy bent over yacking... but he was bent over...leaving a "#2"...in broad daylight. Thank you Feinstein Agnos and Brown!

[FreeperinRATcage]

umm....some of us do live here, ya know.

[Kevin Curry]

You have my sympathy.

[livius]

Bring back the psych hospitals.

Yes! And clone Rudy and put one of him in every city. I don't know exactly how he did it, but in the space of about five years, I saw NYC go from a city where you couldn't take a deep breath (the ammonia from the pee made your throat close, and we won't even discuss the other smells) to one where people could actually walk through an underground corridor without fainting.

[DannyTN]

Interesting article. Your comments please.

[DannyTN]

"Bring back the psych hospitals. Yes! And clone Rudy and put one of him in every city.

Sounds like a plan to me. Dumping the mentally ill out of psych hospitals was a bad idea.

I've heard Rudy talk about cleaning up NYC. He said it was diligence, constant attention to details. I agree clone him. We can use a few more like him.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Before Rudy decided to go clean up Mexico City I had hoped he would come out to SF. I never did hear how things turned out for him in Mexico. There is plenty of work for him at home in the US.

[ovrtaxt]

Dumping the mentally ill out of psych hospitals was a bad idea.

We agree on that! These people need medical attention, not just a job.

Having said that, there are some who just don't have a clue how to be productive. They can be helped: the big cities of the northeast are notorious for excessive regulation and taxation of small business. The first step to fixing the bum problem in general is elimination of the minimum wage. Then severely reduce the bureaucratic maze involved in hiring workers. Then reduce taxes. Then (or maybe first) deport all illegal immigrants.

Bums? Where?

[RippleFire]

bump

[breakem]

It's the agressiveness that makes SF stand out. They have the air of entitlement.

[henderson field]

Send them to Massachusetts to the Kennedy Compound. That's who's responsible for this: Ted Kennedy. Maybe they'd like to live with their friend Ted.

[Genesis defender]

Coincidentally, your screen name seems to fit this story quite nicely.

[Genesis defender]

Ping. See post #17. But please don't shoot the messenger!

[tpaine]

What does #17 have to do with me?

[Intolerant in NJ]

...Dumping the mentally ill out of psych hospitals was a bad idea...made perfect sense to liberals though - take those who are diagnosed as being mentally ill because their reasoning powers, insight, and judgment are impaired and "empower them to exercise their rights" by releasing them to the community where they must rely on their reasoning, insight, and judgment to survive - "deinstitutionalization" has failed bigtime.....

[roadcat]

"I replied, I don't think that was from a dog."

In SF, they have a poop law for dogs. Your dog poops, you must scoop it up. But no poop pick-up law for people! I've seen homeless people hunch over a curb on busy Market Street in SF, full view of city buses and passersby, and a #2 is let loose. One I saw did practice some etiquette, using some newspaper to wipe himself.

What is real disgusting is the ones who do it in doorways, where a smear is a few feet up the wall. Eewww.

[lewislynn]

Uh huh, and in the mean time the nitwits of Philadelphia while looking the other way, turning up their noses, wading through human shit can't wait to read or report on all the bad things in California.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Yeah. You're LUCKY you live OUTSIDE the city :)

We want to, we really do, but I work here...sigh. I can't take the commute.

The good thing is we are close to Union Square (which we love, and Williams-Sonoma!!!), but the bad thing is we live in a terrible neighborhood and can't leave our apt at night. Ever.

The other good things are that we walk everywhere, we never take the bus (rarely).

[breakem]

Shi$%y story.