Based On A True Story...: SF Homeless Sweep

Sunday, November 12, 2023

SF Homeless Sweep

Love the sarcasm- that is sarcasm... no? Photo: © Stan Banos

The APEC summit is coming to town and the downtown area is in the process of being dehomelessized. They're definitely being scattered to the winds (well, at least their sidewalk blocking tents are) this week- whatever public safety/sanitation laws couldn't be applied previously, are now being applied... until they no longer are the following week! 8ft security barricades are also being deployed all around the Moscone Center as the Biden/Xi Jinping Express is scheduled to come barreling into town. It's gonna be one royal mess of crowds and security as yet another part of the world gets exposed to the embarrassment of vacant storefronts and vacant faces that is present day, downtown San Francisco.

And then it all reverts back to our now normal, everyday abnormality of filth, garbage, homelessness and insanity once the crowd returns home regaling their peers of the Dream once called American...

2 comments:

jurassicporkNovember 12, 2023 at 12:41 PM
"Nothing like a little extra motivation to clean things up," says the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at five.
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Sandy WoodNovember 13, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Remember how clean and tidy everything was when we hosted the Super Bowl?
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