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The real solution to the public defecation crisis is either unlocking bathrooms at night or more “single” use plastic bags. Anyone knows dog parks have less shi
by jakear 4y ago
The real solution to the public defecation crisis is either unlocking bathrooms at night or more “single” use plastic bags. Anyone knows dog parks have less shit around when there are bags readily available, but somehow they haven’t connected that to the city in general. It used to be you could pretty reliably find a good clean plastic bag in any trash can. Not so anymore.
Problem is anyone proposing this in government would be cancelled for disgracing the homeless or some shit (I’m homeless, I get a free pass). The absolute worst part of the homeless experience is being in a city during the hours when bathrooms are locked and desperately needing to use one. Not proud of the things I’ve done in times of such calamity.
At least SF has people freely shooting up on the streets, so perhaps they won’t feel as compelled to prevent them from using bathrooms for the same? Anyone know if SF bathrooms get locked?
- Gigachad 4y agoI don't think it's even possible to solve the public toilet problem without first solving the drug abuse problem. Everyone agrees it would be ideal to have toilet access to everyone, but no one has an answer for how you design a toilet that's impossible to abuse.
- bombcar 4y agoThe guy is literally asking for doggie bags to be available so he can crap in a bag when toilets aren’t available/closed. We need to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, or the whole city turns into a toilet.
- jakear 4y agoFolks abuse drugs right on the street in SF. I don’t see why they’d prefer to take up a stall, where you’re much more likely to get noticed, complained about, and “handled”. If not a doggy bag supply outside locked bathrooms, a roomful of toilets with no doors/walls/etc would be better than what we have now. Down with the idea that defecation is a naughtily private affair, bring back public bathhouses!
- googlryas 4y agoYou're saying people who are pooping on public sidewalks will willingly choose to poop into plastic bags on public sidewalks, if only they had them available?
- jakear 4y agoI can’t speak for everyone, but some of them yes! If you were homeless and needed to shit in the middle of the night (usually avoidable, but stomach bugs can screw you - and they’re more common when you can only afford bottom of the barrel food), would you prefer to do it directly on the street in the vicinity of your bed where you’ll have to smell it and look at it for weeks, or into a bag where you can properly dispose of it immediately? Now imagine you live in a community with a dozen other hobos, what sorts of policies would you legislate? You know we aren’t that different, you and I.