The "Brownout by the Bay"

"When you're going to San - Fran - cisco,  
Be sure to put some booties on your shoes..."

I've advised you, my loyal readers, before about San Francisco and how its uber-liberal-ness and off-the-charts "Progressivism" is likely to be its undoing.  

From the City by the Bay it's rapidly become the "Sh*tty by the Bay."  I've told you about the scourge of the homeless infesting the very best areas of town.  Thousands and thousands of them.  Almost 10,000 of them at last estimate.  And they're kind of hard to count, because the Fuzz aren't allowed to open their tent doors to ask.  (!)

Angry, often violent and aggressive panhandlers accosting tourists and locals alike.  Mental illness is on full display around Union Square, and Ghirardelli Square, and every other Square.  And they set up camp right in front of the best shops and restaurants in town.  This is Orwellian!  

But perhaps most egregious is that these vagrants relieve themselves on the sidewalks and streets of San Francisco.  Often.  Not just Number One; we're talking loads and loads of Number Two.  It's so bad that last year the City set up what they dubbed the "Poop Patrol."  

Yes, my friends, instead of solving the problem this "Progressive" city simply decided to ignore it.  But it's kind of hard to ignore tons and tons of human excrement.

But because they're "valued residents," as Nancy Pelosi's nephew, the new Guv of CA, calls them, there's nothing its citizens can do.  The so-called "Paris of the West" has become the "Brownout by the Bay."

And the City just provided an update on their Human Waste Removal campaign.  They're reporting a total of 132,562 cases of Number Two removal since 2008!   And the incidence is growing!  They've had 118,352 since 2011, and spiking to an all-time high 28,084 in 2018!  

The auditors at OpenTheBooks.com took it upon themselves to plot on a map each incidence of human waste reporting on a map (check it out).  Thirty zip codes in the City were affected, but four locations had the highest concentrations of human feces - between 10,000 and 23,000 events each. 

Those affected neighborhoods included City Center, Hayes Valley, the Tenderloin, lower Haight and Downtown/Union Square.  Zip Code 94103 had 19,275 instances of reported human feces!  And Zip Code 94109 had 11,287 instances.  This Code includes the San Fran Maritime National Park, the Regency Ballroom and the Liholiho Yacht Club.  That, my friends, is the High Rent District...in a City full of High Rent Districts (one bedroom apartments now cost upwards of $4,000 a month!).  

As an aside, I'm guessing it's sort of uncomfortable shopping for a $600 pair of shoes on Union Square and then having to step over or around dog sh*t as you depart the store...  

The Good News is that their Poop Patrol is functioning proudly!  Each Patrol member is paid a nice, round $183,720 in annual salary and benefits (who says you need a college degree?).  That translates to $37.21 for each gob of crap thus scooped (SFO spent a whopping $72 Million Dollars last year scooping poop!).  

Has anyone in this Progressive scat-filled Utopia asked themselves if it might be a better idea to simply buy a few Porta-Potties?  It really must be nice to have so very much tech money and so very many uber-Liberal residents that it can afford to spend more on poop-scooping than on simply resolving the issue.

And God help anyone who tries to remove poop before they get to it!  Nooooo!  They're union workers, doncha' know.  That poop belongs to them!  And for proof of that, 200 volunteers were going to get together this last weekend and patrol the park around the old Letterman Hospital and Maritime Museum.  But  noooooooooooo!  The City refused them a permit!  I guess they might have removed some of the poop legally owned by the Patrol...