With an electro-magnet!
Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your bartenders and waitresses!
Posted on 07/29/2007 11:30:41 AM PDT by Michael.SF.
S. F. neighborhood once known as a haven for drifters is overrun by disenfranchised homeless youths
SAN FRANCISCO -- From his second-floor apartment at the counterculture crossing of Haight and Ashbury streets, Arthur Evans watches a new generation of wayward youth invade his free-spirited neighborhood. The former flower child was among the legions of idealistic wanderers who migrated here during the Vietnam War to "tune in, turn on and drop out."
But Evans, who has lived at the same address for 34 years, says he has never seen anything like this crowd, who use his flower bed as a bathroom and sell marijuana outside his window.
They're known as gutter punks, these homeless kids with dirty dreadlocks and nose rings, lime-green mohawks and orange spray-painted faces, who panhandle with cardboard signs that riff on their lifestyles. "Please Help Us Get Un-Sober," one reads. Another: "Please Give Us Weed, Beer or Money."
Sometimes aggressive, they block sidewalks as they strum guitars or bang on bongos. Gangs of them skateboard down the middle of Haight Street. Some throw used hypodermic needles into a nearby pond they call Hep-C Lake.
Evans, 64, says they should get help, clean up or go home.
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I had to laugh when I read that comment. Some gray haired pony tail complaining about the new generation of future gray haired pony tailers!
So many things at play here: "Ye reap what ye sow", "What goes around Comes around" and schadenfreund all come immediately to mind.
Sweet irony...
Pay no attention to that man. He’s over 30.
Karma - Ain’t it a bitch.
-—hmmm—when I passed through Haight-Asbury about twenty years ago, it seemed that about every other door was a rehab center-—
It doesn’t sound like these guys like looking at themselves in the mirror of the next generation.
With an electro-magnet!
Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your bartenders and waitresses!
Ponytail peed on the standards of his elders, and now he's dismayed when the gutter punks pee on his? How rich is the irony!
It’s the intercourse you get for the intercourse you got.
“But Evans, who has lived at the same address for 34 years, says he has never seen anything like this crowd, who use his flower bed as a bathroom and sell marijuana outside his window.”
Those guys can’t do that, only US guys can do that!!
Don’t ya just love the karma? Justice does eventually comes to pass.
With all the drugs he's ingested over the years, there was probably a lot going on around him that he didn't "see."
"Pot, meet kettle."
Isn’t liberal nirvana wonderful? And how dare he deny the rights of today’s ‘Yutes’ to enjoy their summers of love.
Another example added to the overwhelming evidence of
the self-destruction of the USA.
Caligula would be envious.
Don’t feed pigeons or street people. You just get more of them.
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