Posted on 10/04/2016 10:59:19 PM PDT by aquila48
On a Sunday when most folks in San Francisco were posting images of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to social media, Adam Mesnick instead posted a photo from his SoMa neighborhood.
In it, a man is seen apparently helping another man shoot heroin in broad daylight, right near the corner of Russ and Howard streets.
Mesnick is the owner of local sandwich shop Deli Board and its smaller counterpart, Rye Project. He runs the Twitter account for Deli Board and posts photos of the drug problem outside of his business, alongside images of his sandwiches.
It's not what you'd expect from a deli, but for Mesnick the account has become a venting outlet. Not only has he been a business owner and resident of the area for the past seven years, he has also taken on the role of being a photojournalist of sorts. He keeps a depressing record of what he feels is the downturn of his neighborhood.
"It's hard to thrive and cook and do something that you're completely passionate about and love, when you're sort of watching a little bit of an urban decay," Mesnick said Sunday.
While some would say the problems have always been around in SoMa, Mesnick argues that the area has gotten worse. The Cleveland transplant said that he hasn't always felt unsafe in the neighborhood, but recent drug-laced and violent incidents — including people with bats and weapons at times — has him worried about SoMa.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Bums LLC.
They will grow up and move away.
I did
The comments at the link are all hating on the Democrats. Interesting, since commenters are presumably San Francisco locals.
Wouldn’t it be fun if Trump sweeps a few of the liberal dumps like SF ?
“They will grow up and move away.
I did”
San Francisco is a different dynamic now. We are in the midst of a tremendous tech boom. Every big league player in the tech industry has a site here, typically massive sites. For example, Sales Force is building the biggest tower in SF history downtown right now. Construction absolutely everywhere.
So these young mostly men are hard working, well educated, highly paid professionals. For now some seem to think it’s cool to stumble over a junkie on the way to work, but many are appalled and some are frightened. It’s ugly and it’s dangerous.
Many are of the Moslem and Hindu persuasion, and they are not impressed with this sort of behavior, either.
So I just wonder, if something will give. Not holding my breath. But the character and tenor of SF has changed, getting more of a Libertarian vibe as best I read it.
” could never and would never visit a restaurant if I had to have bums, feces, urine etc to walk thru... “
It’s a little funny to see all the employees of Air BnB and Twitter lined up outside the Vietnamese restaurant and other high Yelp score places, huddled together as they wait for their overpriced food, while winos stagger by, schizophrenics mutter along, and the smell of urine overcomes the savory cooking.
“It’s even fun for a little time but gets old after a bit.”
We don’t have so much drifters anymore but hard core meth and etc. addicts, drunks of course, and seriously crazy people.
“The ACLU sued Ft. Collins, Co. and won in a case about pan-handlers.”
I have mixed feelings about panhandling. I’d like the freedom to ask someone, in public, for something (whether money, food, directions, a job, an opinion. . .). As long as it is not threatening or aggressive I tend to think it should be legal. Freedom of speech, expression.
But public drunkenness, public urination and defecation, public intoxication on any substance, threatening behavior, sleeping in public doorways or sidewalks unless felled by a sudden medical condition. . . I’d like to see laws against these things punishable with serious jail time.
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Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
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I worked downtown for 11 years - left in 2008. Sounds like things just keep getting more polarized. At some point, reality has to eclipse Leftist dogma...or so you would think. :)
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