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Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by kodah »

Qem wrote: post #347
nomel wrote: post #119

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I've peed in a bush in SF. I didn't want to, but that's what happens when you have humans with bladders and zero public restrooms. I tried to not pee in the bush. I asked around, went to a few grab and go restaurants, a gas station, but none had a public bathroom. My only option was to wait in line and pay cover to get into a bar, wait in line at the high end restaurants in the area, drive across town to Denny's for…

Holy Mother, the US put men in the moon but couldn't build some public toilets and now their streets are minefields? Now a small step for man can be just a big mess to clean later.

Calling this "the US" is incorrect. SF is not "the US" and hardly reflects the country in most ways, though carries a ridiculous amount of influence.

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by panarky »

84fryb75 wrote: post #9

In early 2020, before lockdown, I visited San Francisco as a tourist with my wife. We took a wrong turn at a book store and wound up on a street covered in feces. The next street was fine. Then on the next, we watched a homeless woman shoot up on the street. Then a supercar pulled into a garage. I'm not the best traveled, I'll admit, so I can't compare SF to foreign cities. I'm a simple hillbilly from the Southeast,…

> I'm so glad I chose to live in Texas ...

People love to pretend that right-wing politicians and policies of mass incarceration make us safer.

Turns out big cities can have high crime rates regardless of their state's politicians and policies.

Houston's violent crime rate is 1,095 per 100,000 population, compared to 715 for San Francisco.

The crime rate is higher in Houston than Chicago.

Memphis has a higher property crime rate than San Francisco or Chicago.

The safest city in Texas is Plano, with a violent crime rate of 149 per 100,000. The safest city in California (and in the entire US) is Irvine, with a violent crime rate less than half of that.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by [deleted] »

imgabe wrote: post #50
olivermarks wrote: post #30

SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin ran for office in November 2019 focusing his campaign on ending mass incarceration with restorative justice models, rather than punitive incarceral methods. Since then crime in SF has absolutely exploded, fuelled by proposition 47 which reduced stealing less than $900 day to a misdemeanor. Add in a massive opioid crisis and the result is a rapidly growing crisis of shoplifting, petty…

It seems like a group of 10 concerned citizens could get together and steal $9000 per day from Chesa Boudin until he realizes this is a bad policy.

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Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by yupper32 »

cudgy wrote: post #342
yupper32 wrote: post #149

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Voting, contributing to campaigns, some volunteering around prop times. Though I'll admit I haven't done much around the recall of our DA outside of donating. I should be doing more there. I'm also active in my neighborhood in my own way, trying to get people together for events (think trivia, bar game tournaments, etc). Though of course this has limited during covid. I think your comment is kinda rude, though. Even…

Have the candidates you voted for won any of the elections? Or would your candidates have done differently than the currently elected officials? Many people blame government but think their own representation is fine. California has huge problems with affordable housing and homelessness but their left-leaning residents and politicians seem ineffective against the problem. One would think that left-leaning governments…

Some of my candidates I've supported have won. Some I've liked once in office, some I haven't. Some I've voted for again, some I've voted out. Can't win them all. Just have to keep trying.

Sorry my efforts aren't good enough, I guess?

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by filoleg »

Balgair wrote: post #356
devoutsalsa wrote: post #55

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Yeah, I lived in the Tendernob neighborhood of SF for almost 10 years. I’d always pass by a lot of what you’re talking about... - At one point I did a lot of walking there and to keep myself entertained I started tracking PPM (poops per mile) - one day I walked by a woman peeing between two cars, and she noticed me & apologized. Later I walked back that same route and saw her again. She thanked me for not yelling at…

Friend of the family was on her way to her HS Prom at City Hall at night with a few friends. Dressed to the nines, going to have a great time under the rotunda with her class. A homeless guy came up to her and put something wet on her arm, directly in front of city hall. It was a lot of acid. She spent the next few days in the hospital recovering/surviving a very bad trip. She still deals with flashbacks, years later…

This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start.

First, LSD isn't the kind of a drug homeless people usually do. It has no addictive potential, and it doesn't give you a high. It isn't a "fun" drug, as opposed to the typical heroin/meth/etc. stuff those people do.

Second, LSD is usually distributed in the form of paper tabs. Why would they be wet?

Third, getting high from just skin contact, especially on your arm, is something I cannot find as possible after some googling. The only skin-contact-related use case I've found online is some people putting it on their eyes for faster absorption, but it is not the same as arm skin at all.

I am not accusing you of lying, I honestly believe that you are telling the story you were told by the friend of the family exactly as is. But I have a feeling that the reality was a bit different from what you have described, and I bet I can guess what it was.

My theory: she went to prom, did acid for the first time with her friends there, it ended up being too much and too intense, she got hospitalized, and then she made up that story for her parents. After all, who is gonna be able to track down and find a random non-descript homeless person?

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by sneak »

rsync wrote: post #353
sneak wrote: post #253

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> grabbed him by his hoodie collar, and pinned him down I was referring to the battery. > I’m a photographer and a distance runner and I’m good enough at both to have made money off of them. Both reactions were instinctive. The experiences and training you have had post-birth have no bearing on your innate human instinctual responses, which are shared in common with all members of your species, including the ones tha…

"I was referring to the battery." Fuck off. Home (or storefront) invasion is a violent act. Theft is a violent act. We (all of us) have a duty to respond - with violence if necessary. We need more good people like (psychomugs) in San Francisco and he deserves our thanks.

Petty theft is not violence; violence is crime against a person's body. The only violence that happened here was the guy attacking the thief.

In almost all cases, escalating a relatively minor crime into physical violence against a human being is the wrong move, and needlessly increases the risk in a situation.

Grab the wrong person by accident? In a lot of states that might endanger your own life if the person decides to defend themselves.

Escalating to violence over simple objects (property) is to have priorities out of whack.

PS: be nice. I will not fuck off.

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by EForEndeavour »

hitekker wrote: post #163
devoutsalsa wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I lived in the Tendernob neighborhood of SF for almost 10 years. I’d always pass by a lot of what you’re talking about... - At one point I did a lot of walking there and to keep myself entertained I started tracking PPM (poops per mile) - one day I walked by a woman peeing between two cars, and she noticed me & apologized. Later I walked back that same route and saw her again. She thanked me for not yelling at…

> - I gave a beer to a homeless guy, and he chugged it & threw the can into the street. I asked him why he didn’t put it in the trash can right next to us, and he explained that he didn’t want the tiny Asian women who forage for recyclables to get stabbed by the needles in the trash cans, and that one of them would be along to get the can shortly. Sure enough, less than 5 minutes later, a woman pushing a shopping car…

For me, it's all about the jarring contrasts in a fleeting encounter between distant social classes. The guy's homeless along with thousands of others in one of the richest and most technologically advanced regions of one of the world's richest countries. Actively throwing litter into the street comes off as antisocial, until it's revealed to be motivated by empathy for his fellow destitute community members. That woman spends her waking hours collecting empty cans and avoiding needle-stick injuries on the streets of a city in which other people who aren't so different from her spend their time rearranging electrons in very specific ways that entitle them to safe and secure housing, as well as food, drink, and information imported into their homes from across the world.

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by Balgair »

filoleg wrote: post #365
Balgair wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Friend of the family was on her way to her HS Prom at City Hall at night with a few friends. Dressed to the nines, going to have a great time under the rotunda with her class. A homeless guy came up to her and put something wet on her arm, directly in front of city hall. It was a lot of acid. She spent the next few days in the hospital recovering/surviving a very bad trip. She still deals with flashbacks, years later…

This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. First, LSD isn't the kind of a drug homeless people usually do. It has no addictive potential, and it doesn't give you a high. It isn't a "fun" drug, as opposed to the typical heroin/meth/etc. stuff those people do. Second, LSD is usually distributed in the form of paper tabs. Why would they be wet? Third, getting high from just skin contact, especially on…

> This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start.

Perhaps you should not have then.

I'm not lying, she's not either. Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults; they are not believed, mostly just accused.

Thanks for the comment.

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by MrRiddle »

Balgair wrote: post #368
filoleg wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. First, LSD isn't the kind of a drug homeless people usually do. It has no addictive potential, and it doesn't give you a high. It isn't a "fun" drug, as opposed to the typical heroin/meth/etc. stuff those people do. Second, LSD is usually distributed in the form of paper tabs. Why would they be wet? Third, getting high from just skin contact, especially on…

> This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. Perhaps you should not have then. I'm not lying, she's not either. Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults; they are not believed, mostly just accused. Thanks for the comment.

> Comments like these

Like what? Questioning very hard to believe story?

Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

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Post by Balgair »

MrRiddle wrote: post #369
Balgair wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. Perhaps you should not have then. I'm not lying, she's not either. Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults; they are not believed, mostly just accused. Thanks for the comment.

> Comments like these Like what? Questioning very hard to believe story?

Despite your incredulousness, I maintain my account's truthfulness.

Thank you for your comment.

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