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Offline thundley4

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Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« on: July 26, 2012, 04:41:23 PM »
Nope. I thought this was about DUmmies passing out, too, but it isn't.

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Human waste shuts down BART escalators

When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.

While the sheer volume of human waste was surprising, its presence was not. Once the stations close, the bottom of BART station stairwells in downtown San Francisco are often a prime location for homeless people to camp for the night or find a private place to relieve themselves.

All those biological excretions can gum up the wheels and gears of BART's escalators, shutting them down for long periods of extended repairs, increasing station cleaning costs and creating an unpleasant aroma for morning commuters.

Five of the nine escalators that weren't working at BART stations on Wednesday were in downtown San Francisco, said Jim Allison, a BART spokesman. While there are many reasons a BART escalator can break down, the beating they take at night is among the most acute.

full: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Human-waste-shuts-down-BART-escalators-3735981.php

Article also includes a photo of the scene...make sure you wait a while if you've recently eaten.
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24. there's a well known mentally ill homeless woman who every morning poops across the street of CC sta

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she was on the news. and the nice lady in the coffee shop nearby is trying to get her help and teach her to use the store's bathroom. it's taking a very long while, and working only in fits and starts. often there's a lump o' shit next to the bus stop. it's the corner across the street from Civic Center Station and across from the Citibank atm. (edit: Market & 8th, btw) kinda depressing, but there it is.

she needs real help, but with all the services the city can provide, and even public/business interest there's no real way to curb this issue. she needs more assistance than we can provide as Reagan shut down so many of our mental health facilities. sure, there were abuses in the past -- and likely still around in mental health facilities elsewhere -- but leaving them without care on the street isn't exactly an improvement.

by the way, there's a public restroom outside the station. it isn't always working, and at one point people wanted to take even those away due to the junkie problem. but it is there, barring any recent renovations I haven't heard about in the past 5 months.

Still  blaming Reagan for the failure of California.

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54. Sf tried free public outdoor toilets

which have been said to work well in Europe.
Not so much in SF, tho.
Junkies use them to shoot up in, toilets got jammed and spilled over. Everytime they are cleaned out, they get filled up with all sorts of ....well, let's say..."stuff".
And right outside, the gutters are full of human waste.
On a warm day, the smell of urine hangs over areas of the city for miles.

Yes, I know what I am talking about, I lived and worked in SF until 2005.

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7. Maybe they should reconsider letting the homeless go without shelter...

I think if they tried really hard to think of a solution they could come up with one. Then they could put in a porta potty maybe because sometimes people just gotta go even if they have a home they are trying to get to.

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23. Unless by shelter you mean "mental institution" that only goes so far

My girlfriend has been assaulted twice by San Francisco's urban savages, one of them wasn't even technically homeless - but had wandered off from a group home because she liked smoking crack better than living indoors.

A bed and a toilet doesn't even begin to address the issues with many of these characters.

The larger problem is when one refers to San Francisco's homeless you are referring to a spectacularly disparate groups ranging from teenaged runaways and gutter punks to hardcore junkies and psychiatric cases with a whole bunch of unique situations in-between. But housing assistance only goes so far when the underlying issue is substance abuse, mental illness or the inexplicable "cool to be homeless" punks.

The dregs of society?

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16. This is where Saudi Arabia can teach us a practical lesson...

We need an American version of the Mutaween, armed with culturally appropriate melee weapon to immediately and harshly punish public shithead behavior.

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28. Or maybe we need better housing and sanitary facilities for the homeless, n'est-ce pas?
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 04:46:45 PM »
It was the ACLU and liberal (democrat) judges that put the crazy people on the streets, not R.R.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 04:48:24 PM »
But I thought San Francisco was supposed to be the moonbat promised land and they are saying that it's covered in shite?. :rotf:
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 04:48:54 PM »
Wow, reality hits them in the face, kicks them on the ass, and performs a slam-dunk.............and they still don't get it.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2012, 04:56:57 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on July 26, 2012, 04:48:54 PM
Wow, reality hits them in the face, kicks them on the ass, and performs a slam-dunk.............and they still don't get it.

City slickers, thought they were shitting in the bushes.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 05:40:46 PM »
San Francisco has to be one of the most disgusting places on earth. I don't see how Mr. Monk could tolerate this.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 05:43:39 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on July 26, 2012, 05:40:46 PM
San Francisco has to be one of the most disgusting places on earth. I don't see how Mr. Monk could tolerate this.

It would explain his OCD regarding cleanliness.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2012, 06:21:59 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on July 26, 2012, 05:40:46 PM
San Francisco has to be one of the most disgusting places on earth. I don't see how Mr. Monk could tolerate this.

It is really a shame because at one time San Francisco was a beautiful city and a great place for a short vacation. Now it's a shining example of the failure that is LIBERALISM.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2012, 07:05:08 PM »
Gotta admit though, you gotsta be pretty athletic to crap on a moving escalator.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2012, 07:11:39 PM »
Quote from: Bondai on July 26, 2012, 06:21:59 PM
It is really a shame because at one time San Francisco was a beautiful city and a great place for a short vacation. Now it's a shining example of the failure that is LIBERALISM.
Maybe the 1908 San Francisco fire was caused by someone who caught a glimpse of 2012 San Francisco.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2012, 07:12:05 PM »
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A bed and a toilet doesn't even begin to address the issues with many of these characters.


This would address them just fine...


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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2012, 08:50:39 PM »
Occupoopers in "Pacific Heights".
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2012, 08:52:02 PM »
Liberal family values.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2012, 03:53:39 AM »
Quote from: BadCat on July 26, 2012, 07:12:05 PM

This would address them just fine...




It would save the muni in question a bundle, too, in housing and "cleanup" costs.  You'd only have to clean up after them once.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2012, 04:12:04 AM »
We always knew liberals were full of shit.

Now we have proof.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2012, 07:26:04 AM »

EOM.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2012, 07:44:14 AM »
MADem points out some articles detailing out the very real problems with the SF public toilets.  Unable to respond reasonably, we get the tired old

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89. You have linked to a right wing publication. Congratulations.
   ::)

Luminous Animal then proceeds to repeat herself over and over and over.  "The homeless are supposed to get tokens.  The toilets are fantastic and perfect.  The homeless are supposed to get tokens."   She sounds like a loon. 

It's a pretty good read, one dude puts another dude on ignore for absolutely no reason.  Another day at the asylum!   :lmao:
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2012, 09:04:44 AM »
A very puzzling comment in that thread..
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29. I wish more on the right were as honest
to admit that Saudi Arabia and Iran are countries they wold like the US to emulate. 
I have no idea what he/she/it, is talking about, and how does it relate to poop in the escalators?

Quote from: Karin on July 27, 2012, 07:44:14 AM
MADem points out some articles detailing out the very real problems with the SF public toilets.  Unable to respond reasonably, we get the tired old
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Luminous Animal then proceeds to repeat herself over and over and over.  "The homeless are supposed to get tokens.  The toilets are fantastic and perfect.  The homeless are supposed to get tokens."   She sounds like a loon. 

It's a pretty good read, one dude puts another dude on ignore for absolutely no reason.  Another day at the asylum!   :lmao:
That was a funny exchange.
Here's the rest of it.

The start up.
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Response to coalition_unwilling (Reply #34)
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 11:13 AM
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35. Ah so not wanting to be surrounded by shit is "bourgeois"
I take it then that you do want to live in human excrement? 
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36. Um, yeah, not wanting to be surrounded by shit is the
essence of the 'bourgeois' (middle-class) mindset.
As for your straw-man, no need to reply as you have now joined the illustrious ranks of my Ignore list. Is that you, Gnads?
Have a nice life or whatever.
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4th law of robotics (2,974 posts)
37. Fascinating
You deride someone for wanting to avoid something then become furious when they ask if that means you don't want to avoid that same thing.
I suppose consistency in an argument is also bourgeois.
/or more likely you didn't expect me to reply that way, realized how silly you sounded, and "rage-quit" to avoid looking more foolish.  yup
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79. If that's all it takes to get on someone's ignore list
then he or she already has half of DU on ignore. Y'all forgot the "it".
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84. seems people use the ignore thing if they lose an argument, i jsut dont get it
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101. That person probably just needed a nap. or at least a free token

Looks to me like they got upset over nothing. Some people come here wanting to fight, and expecting that everyone else wants to fight. Some people come here for discussion, which is not the same thing as fighting. Not everything on DU needs to be an argument, or that one person is comepletely correct and the other person is completely wrong. Especially not between progressives and/or democrats.
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103. I'm sure that half of DU is really suffering
from being on this individuals ignore list.
Pity us. 
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2012, 09:20:09 AM »
Sounds like liberals and those mentally ill homeless are one in the same.  They shit on everything.  :rimshot:
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2012, 09:48:14 AM »
DUmmies, fighting over poop.....................
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2012, 10:05:05 AM »
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24. there's a well known mentally ill homeless woman who every morning poops across the street of CC sta

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she was on the news. and the nice lady in the coffee shop nearby is trying to get her help and teach her to use the store's bathroom. it's taking a very long while, and working only in fits and starts.

House breaking the homeless... how liberal.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2012, 10:21:45 AM »
coalition_unwilling berates 4th law of robotics for wanting to avoid something unpleasant. When called on it coalition_unwilling puts 4th law of robotics on ignore list basically avoiding something that he/she considers unpleasant. How very  'bourgeois' of coalition_unwilling. That seems to be something akin to a middle class mindset.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2012, 10:27:23 AM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on July 26, 2012, 05:40:46 PM
San Francisco has to be one of the most disgusting places on earth. I don't see how Mr. Monk could tolerate this.

And this is the reason I call it San Francesspool because that's what it's become. Back in the 60's I used to take the train with my Grandmother to go shopping on Market Street and it was something I really looked forward to because the city was a nice place to go. These days I will not go to the Cesspool by the Bay unless I absolutely have to....which sucks because I'm a Giants fan and I can't go to any home games because of it.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2012, 02:24:16 PM »
I'm kind of surprised that the escalators are not gummed up with spunk...AIDS infested spunk.
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Re: Human waste shuts down BART escalators
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2012, 08:14:36 PM »
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16. This is where Saudi Arabia can teach us a practical lesson...

We need an American version of the Mutaween, armed with culturally appropriate melee weapon to immediately and harshly punish public shithead behavior.
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