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Lawmakers determined to clean up San Francisco are taking on the homeless who use the streets of one America's top tourist destinations as a public toilet.

Residents were surprised to learn that no ban exists on urinating and defecating in the streets.

An estimated 12,000 homeless people live in the city and police have until now had little success in preventing them from relieving themselves on the sidewalks.

Until now police have sought to prosecute offenders under anti-waste dumping laws but judges threw out most of the 1,100 citations issued to the homeless in 2000, ruling the laws applied to garbage, not to human waste.


Imagine the lawsuits if a Segway rider spun out in a pile of homeless droppings. Or the braking problems after whizzing thru a pool of yellow fluid. San Fransisco has made the right decision,it is for the children.

[Billy_bob_bob]

I was thinking the same thing. There are so many "sidewalk surprises" in San Fransicko that there would be no way to ride one of these things for more than a block before you would spin out in a pile of bum droppings, probably to end up face down in a puddle of bum urine, before having your pockets picked by a posse of bums.

Not to mention, could you see the performance put on by the first bum who got touched by one of these things? "Oh, the pain, oh, the agony" they would scream as they writhed on the ground after having their hair mussed by the breeze created as you went by. Next thing you know five lawyers are giving the bastard their business cards and then you end up in court being sued for everything you own.

No, San Fransicko made the right decision by banning Segways from their sidewalks.