Yes argh, because I don’t want to ruin your evening by starting with a photograph of the dump that remains on Mission Street this evening, more than a day after the Walgreen’s manager – on the advice of the Fire Department – called the Department of Public Works.
That call was Monday at 1:30 p.m. I heard the manager make it and ask DPW to clean up the mess. They never came.
We don’t seem to be able to cure homelessness or inequity, but we can pick up human or dog waste so that pedestrians don’t pick it up on their shoes and bring it into their houses.
It is in the middle of the sidewalk on Mission Street. Not even today’s rain washed it away.
People in the MOST EXPENSIVE CITY in the US can’t get the police to respond to nightly smashed cars, stolen mail and packages, break-ins and stolen bikes, all kinds of crime in the neighborhoods. SFPD – Do your job!
Been there, done that in feeling I want the streets to be clean, without invoking meanness against the homeless type., and also feeling conflicted in that I don’t want to take a picture of a dump on the sidewalk, – but did it anyway, and sent it by twitter to @SF311
Its not 100%, but the DPW is doing a good job on these reports, and cleans the vast majority of these reports quickly.
If tweeting dumps feels embarrassing, and telephoning them takes too long, the City also has an app that gets these things cleaned with a couple clicks on the phone. The Android version is at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sfgov.sf311
You could find the ios version if you want to.
The app is 311. The more reports, the more likely the city will respond. And there will be a record of the complaints.
I think some of the homeless camps that resulted in many complaints in the Potrero neighborhoods have moved back to the Mission. If the city can’t house the people living on the streets, can it at least provide toilets & garbage cans? Right now clean up has been delegated to those of us who live here.
(I wish Phil Frank & Farley were still around–he would come up with something clever & compassionate.)
Why has no one mentioned the Folsom Street sewage flood that occurred at about 4 am on December 3, 2014? Seems like this would be a little more significant then some homeless person defecating in front of the Walgreens on 16th and Mission. We were moving our studio, got done at 3:30 am, came down 16th street and found Folsom a lake of water and raw sewage that went from near 15th to past 17th. Cars were floating in Enterprise and the Comcast property was entirely flooded. We just happened to be driving a Jeep that is jacked up about a foot. If we had been in a Mini I think we would have gone floating away. But the flood did happen to wash away the hobo jungle that has grown up on16th between Folsom and Harrison.
Yes, we should have been there. Next time this happens, please let us know. info@missionlocal.com We covered the floods today on Folsom, best, Lydia
Or Walgreens could send out an employee with a hose. Typical corporate response: fight for low taxes & small government, but still expect government to fix things for them.
has no one called this in to 311? 311 has service level agreements, just call it in and i’m sure it will be taken care of quickly
I ran into this issue about 20 times when I had a business at Folsom btwn 16/17. I got so sick of cleaning up fecal matter, I started putting out paper buckets (like fried chicken size) and rolls of toilet paper
That seemed to cure the problem. If the city can’t manage it, there are ways to bring the homeless some solution. Ugh.