These are the geniuses who keep voting for Nancy “Walls Don’t Work and Are Immoral” Pelosi.
San Francisco Neighbors Erect Boulders To Keep the Homeless Away
CNN | 9-25-19A group of San Francisco neighbors came up with their own solution after they said the city wouldn’t help them with the local homeless and drug dealer population, according to CNN affiliate KGO: They put boulders on the sidewalks.
The group has been going to city meetings and filing reports with the city for six months, according to KGO, but they haven’t had any luck.
After a turf war one night, one of the residents told KGO the neighbors had had enough.“It got to the point where everybody was just done,” the person told KGO. “People had knives and guns and people were out fighting, carrying on and waking up people in the neighborhood.”
Asking not to be identified, that resident told KGO a group of neighbors pitched in to buy 24 boulders that are now placed on their sidewalk to discourage the homeless from pitching tents.
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Danielle, who said she wasn’t comfortable sharing her last name, lives a few blocks away and walks the area daily. She told CNN she thinks the neighbors could have focused their efforts on fighting for housing or on calls to city officials.
“I know the reality of homelessness and moving people from one sidewalk to another doesn’t solve it,” she said. “It’s as if the people who are for them have the attitude, ‘We want to be privileged’ not to deal with problem.”
The City of San Francisco doesn’t plan on removing the boulders. In fact, city spokeswoman Rachel Gordon told CNN officials are looking for ways to sanction them so they can remain in place.
CNN reached out to San Francisco’s Coalition for Homelessness but has not heard back.
Why not buy an island and place all the irresponsible homeless there? The ones we can help can stay here and go through recovery programs and shelters. Those who refuse, let them waste out the rest of their life away from the responsible. Cut off all services. Oh, I worked many years in a homeless shelter and have seen enough of what works and what doesn’t work.
Hey, where can San Francisco find an Island close by that already has buildings capable of housing multiple people just like that!
They put the boulders up because CA decided the homeless have a “right” to camp on the sidewalk. The boulders leave only the legal minimum of room for pedestrian use. For actual walls you’d have to go to SanFran Nan’s house
As far as voting for her, I don’t live in her district, thankfully.
Oh sure, but they get all worked up about Brits and their anti-smoking spikes.
https://abc7news.com/news/anti-homeless-spikes-in-london-cause-controversy/104937/
lol
There could be a liability issue involved.
30 years ago in Ft. Wayne, IN, there was a house that due to its location, kept getting hit by cars. The owners wanted to put up barriers to stop that, but couldn’t unless they were willing to bear the liability of damage, injury, or deaths due to cars hitting the barriers. I would think that these boulders have a similar issue.
To finish the story, the owners appealed to the city for barriers. The city didn’t agree until a car crashed through the house, landing on and killing the wife as she slept. The day they were scheduled to put up the barriers, it rained, so it got postponed. That night, another car crashed through the house and killed the husband. So the city seized the property, and turned it into a little park owned by the city. That’s like closing the barn doors after the horses have eaten the children.
Lots of Dem cities are probably asking Ft Wayne how they did it so they can do it too.
Free park! Everyone (almost) wins!