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> Outside the Ross store on Market Street Friday evening, shoppers queued up to enter the store. It's one way the store is trying to reduce rampant theft by lim
by timr 4y ago
> Outside the Ross store on Market Street Friday evening, shoppers queued up to enter the store. It's one way the store is trying to reduce rampant theft by limiting the number of people inside the store at any given time.
What a dystopia SF has become.
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- wpietri 4y agoIs that based on any personal experience, or just news reports? I've been living here 20+ years and it seems about like it always has been.
- fundad 4y agoPolice begged Apple to include an iPhone kill switch because “Apple-picking” was a massive problem.
- timr 4y agoLived there for nearly a decade, and I've seen my fair share: drug addicts (yes, plural) rolling in the streets in their own feces; people (yes, plural) with open, festering wounds, begging for money; had a psychotic homeless man throw a bicycle at me; followed someone down the street in SOMA, watching as they systematically peered into car windows with a crowbar in their hand; had an unintentional standoff with a man in Van Ness station whom I encountered while he was fleeing from an attack on the platform with an 8-inch butcher knife (a fireman leapt onto him and I kicked away the knife). I chased down someone who snatched an iPhone from a lady on the street (in retrospect this was not my smartest moment, but I did get the phone back). Bad as all of that was, I never saw something like this. SF is like the beginning of a Batman movie. (Sorry for the word vomit. I'm just now realizing how many absolutely insane things happened to me when I lived in SF. I had blocked many of these things out! Some folks will think I'm exaggerating, but if anything, I'm understating these stories.)