Posted on 11/05/2019 12:05:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The first time Ganave Fairley got busted for stealing a neighbor’s Amazon package, she was just another porch thief unlucky to be caught on tape. In August 2016, a 30-something product marketing manager at Google, expecting some deliveries, got an iPhone ping from his porch surveillance camera as it recorded a black woman in a neon hoodie plucking some bundles off his San Francisco stoop. After arriving home that afternoon, the Googler got in his Subaru Impreza to hunt for any remnants strewn around the streets of his Potrero Hill neighborhood. Instead, he spotted Fairley herself, boarding a city bus, which he trailed while dialing 911. Minutes later, he watched responding police officers pull their cruiser in front of the bus and escort her off. The Googler, sitting nearby in his car, played the Nest Cam tape for them—Yep, it’s her—and the police pulled a $107.66 Apple Magic Keyboard from Fairley’s purse and black tar heroin from her coin pocket. The officers wrote Fairley a ticket with a court date a month later. “I thought it was just a ticket, and that was it,” Fairley said.
It was only about nine months later, in May 2017, when one of Fairley’s neighbors plastered photos of her, “Wanted”-style, on Nextdoor, that Fairley realized things were about to get worse. Nextdoor is an online ticker tape of homeowner and tenant concerns, and the grievances can be particularly telling in a city of Dickensian extremes like San Francisco, whose influx of tech wealth is pitting suburban expectations against urban realities. The city’s property-crime rate is among the highest in the United States.
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“At 19, Fairley came out as gay and, more shocking to both her and her family, pregnant.”
Can’t make it up.
It already is! Just under $1500 bucks though...seriously...we mean it!
“...and black tar heroin from her coin pocket.”
She won’t have that right for long...
Nuke San Francisco from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
Fairley is relatively understandable. Welfare queen, junkie, grifter and societal parasite without morals, using white guilt and her race as a convenient weapon.
Its idiots like Margett who are harder to understand. I know a lot of people like her.
Thought it was $950?
The article implies that theft is a right.
They try to say people steal because they are hungry, which is complete BS.
People steal to support their drug habbits, and because they do not want to work.
The USA is not early 18th century England, or current Venezuela, where people cannot afford food.
The addict in this story does not seem to have a job, because she is a lifetime theif. She got fired from a couple of jobs because of theft.
At every opportunity, she plays the race card and the “victim” card.
She is teaching her daughter to be a thief as well.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
Julie Margett, a nurse who lives on the street, in a purple cottage with a rainbow gay-pride flag and a black lives matter sign in the window....Surmising that they were stolen, she asked Fairley warily, in her British accent, “What are you doing?” Fairley called her a racist (in fact, she still does)
” ... San Francisco, whose influx of tech wealth is pitting suburban expectations against urban realities.”
Suburban expectations = “my stuff is mine”
Urban realities = “your stuff is mine”
This article was featured on Slashdot (a computer geek site) a few days ago and I was heartened by the sheer volume of outraged young people commenting. There may actually be some hope.
So The Atlantic has decided to white-knight this particular oxygen thief?
Gee, what a surprise. (rolls eyes)
Every single person in this story should be napalmed.
And, “a black woman in a NEON hoodie”. Really? She needs to brush up on appropriate thief wardrobe.
I thought that was particularly snicker-worthy.
On Slashdot, someone pointed out that any figures you read concerning poverty in the US are bull, according to Cato. When you figure in city, state, and national transfer payments (support systems) the difference between the working middle class and “the poor” is rather small. This is one of the best countries to be poor in, and the best time in the history of civilization for it. People are risking everything to come here and be poor.
Socialism is already here, but it’s cleverly hidden.
This is what happens when rich liberal kids that have a million opinions about people they’ve never lived around come into contact with the real deal.
In Big D, the DA will not prosecute theft of baby formula, among other things. So, in the local groceries, baby formula is now locked up in cabinets next to the the high priced liquor and cigarettes.
A good portion of our society is completely dead.
Tide detergent and cosmetics now locked up in the WalMart’s in CA. (Along with the items you mentioned).
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