A bundle of syringes were found at an illegal campsite in Golden Gate Park
Posted on 10/01/2006 8:18:48 PM PDT by SmithL
Steve Williams returned to his Golden Gate Park campsite just in time Saturday morning to retrieve all his belongings from the back of a Department of Public Works pickup truck. New to San Francisco, he hadn't heard about the push to clear the park of homeless encampments until someone at the Haight Street McDonald's advised him to check on his stuff.
"I only slept there one night," said Williams, 33, who arrived last week in San Francisco from Baltimore by bus. "This wasn't what I was expecting."
Within minutes, workers from the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team had made arrangements to house Williams in the Tenderloin.
After nearly two weeks of posting notices throughout the park that camping is prohibited, city workers began cleaning up sites on the park's eastern edge Saturday. It's part of a new push by Mayor Gavin Newsom to make Golden Gate Park more like New York's Central Park, with its immaculate open spaces and low crime rate. The endeavor is the latest development in Newsom's attempt to tackle San Francisco's homeless problem, which began with his Care Not Cash homeless-welfare reform initiative back when he was a supervisor.
For the next 90 days, city crews from the Department of Public Works and the Recreation and Park Department will canvass the park seven days a week to clean up encampments, moving from east to west. Over the past two weeks, city crews have found sites with couches and bookshelves -- and even with running water where people have tapped the park's irrigation system. They estimate 100 to 200 people are living in the park, but that number could be revised over the next three months as city workers collect more data.
"The focus of the operation is safety and making sure the park is clean,"
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""I only slept there one night," said Williams, 33, who arrived last week in San Francisco from Baltimore by bus. "This wasn't what I was expecting." "
He will have to apply the syringe someplace else, I guess.
Those poor people who must inject their life saving medicines intraveneously. Must be alot of diabetics or people with some other unfortunate illness in the park. Please help them.
LOL! Took him 10 years! I could have told him where to go directly.
Ten years and he still hasn't figured out that liberalism doesn't work.
Ah. Liberal utopia at last.
LOL
All I can say is:
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Take your home with you!
I was in SF last weekend to see baseball games at Oakland Stadium (still boring) and SF Stadium (very cool). I read the SF Chronicle a couple of times and wanted to take a very long hot shower after each reading - what a despicable piece of slime!! If you really want to get the flavor of the anti-Americanism, just read the letters to the Editor, absolutely Communisitic.
San Francisco - the town where you have to pick up your dog's feces, but bums aren't required to pick up their own.
I drove down Market Street in SF just a few hours ago. It was disgusting and full of filthy slimeballs lingering and laying all over the place. It seems all the homeless losers in GG Park have all now moved downtown. SF will never learn. They just pushed these lowlifes from one part of town to another...and now to a part where the tourists roam. Homelessness in SF is out of control. Of course, if you talk to anyone here, it's all Bush's fault. I found one guy last week still blaming Reagan for the homeless problem!
Can you move? We did in June. Thank goodness.
So glad we left SF. Yes, there's a huge problem there. And the Mayor loves the gayleft. We've seen needles in Pacific Heights (one of the better neighborhoods).
The Mayor loves to blame all the problems on "the police" aka SFPD, but the SFPD's hands are tied.
It's becming Detroit, except for the new areas of town. Even the new areas have loads of homeless people.
Why not build a hospital at General Hospital to house these people instead? A crazy house. And put them in there, and fund it.
One where they really can't go out and get drugs. Something.
Anyways, glad I left!
More aptly, since S.F. is maybe the biggest lib haven in the country, why don't all the kind-hearted libs of S.F. enact an Adopt-A-Homeless-Person campaign and shelter all the trash in their homes? Libs are always moaning about how heartless Republicans and conservatives are. Hey libs, here's a great chance to prove what wonderful human beings you are (since you already think that about yourselves anyway) by taking in all these homeless. Which you helped create.
I'm only in SF temporarily, maybe a few more months. I live in the Marina district, so it's not too bad where I live...yet.
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