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Here's what I don't understand. I live in DC. There's plenty of homeless people. I see them every day. But there's very little pooping in the street. Likewise i
by imgabe 8y ago
Here's what I don't understand. I live in DC. There's plenty of homeless people. I see them every day. But there's very little pooping in the street. Likewise in NYC. Homeless people? Sure. Poop in the street? Not so much.
Neither place, in my experience, has an abundance of public bathrooms. There's almost none that are truly public, like a building specifically with a bathroom for the public to use. Most fast food places and coffee shops will have a lock on the door with a code so you have to buy something.
So why is it just San Francisco that has so many people pooping in the streets?
- chrisdhoover 8y agoOne theory is that the abundance of corner store plastic bags served street people as disposable poop receptacles. With the bag ban the street poop increased.
- pmiller2 8y agoThe graph in the article shows a pretty steady upward trend in the number of poop reports. There's no real spike corresponding to the bag ban.
- whalesalad 8y agoDensity of mental illness and a relaxed environment to do drugs and be weird.
- jpindar 8y agoDo some cities have more alleys, vacant lots, river banks etc. than others? Most of us wouldn't notice if people are pooping down by the river.