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Couple fined $1,500 for parking in own driveway
Just another typical day in San Francisco
I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/couple-fined-1500-parking-driveway/story?id=86181089
Couple fined $1,500 for parking in own driveway
They should deal in fentanyl and meth. Then the San Francisco police won't bother them.
Onvacation says
I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.
I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.
Eric Holder says
Onvacation says
I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.
I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.
I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.
San Francisco restaurant owner says he has to clean off graffiti every day only to find his business covered in graffiti again the next day. The city then fines him for having graffiti.
Welcome to California.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1550250060910305280?cxt=HHwWgICxmfCNzIMrAAAA
San Francisco restaurant owner says he has to clean off graffiti every day only to find his business covered in graffiti again the next day. The city then fines him for having graffiti.
Welcome to California.
Has video.
San Fran has spent $500,000 to figure out which $3,000 trash can to use in the city. Vote on which one is the most colossal waste of money.
One of the most frustrating aspects of America’s necessary and important criminal justice reform debate is the cavalier attitude with which (usually, though not always) well-off advocates living in posh suburban enclaves or luxury city high-rises push policies whose downside risks will be borne by a tiny slice of our most vulnerable citizens, who live in places most of those advocates wouldn’t dare walk through by themselves on a summer night.
... while emptying prisons and cutting back on policing may not change a whole lot in neighborhoods like DC’s Georgetown, New York’s Scarsdale or LA’s Beverly Hills, they could wreak havoc in Brooklyn’s Brownsville, Chicago’s Austin or Baltimore’s Belair-Edison neighborhoods. Yet the troubling disparities illustrated by the drastically unequal distribution of violent crime in America are largely ignored by activists and the media.
In fact, those who do call for more attention to be given to the violence in America’s most dangerous neighborhoods in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, Philadelphia and St. Louis are often chastised for doing so. We’re often accused of fearmongering and distracting from the fact that nationally crime is quite low, relative to modern peaks.
1337irr says
Eric Holder says
Onvacation says
I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.
I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.
I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.
That works well in many counties even in the bay area. However I'm 99% sure in SF judges do not look at any evidence or paperwork, unless the case gets media attention they rubberstamp everyone guilty as...
Jul 27, 2022, 5:00pm PDT
Prologis CEO Hamid Moghadam feels no one is safe in the company’s hometown of San Francisco after he was robbed at gunpoint by several men.
The June 26 incident, until now not publicly reported, highlights rising concerns over crime and other challenges facing the Bay Area and adds to worries more residents and companies will opt to leave the region.
In a wide-ranging interview this week, Moghadam shared with me how the experience has made him more vocal in urging San Francisco’s leadership to make public safety their top priority. Moghadam founded Prologis (NYSE: PLD), the world's largest industrial landlord, in the city in 1983.
The robbery occurred as he pulled his car up in front of his house in tony Pacific Heights, a neighborhood that is home to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and other luminaries. ...
The possibility of the company’s departure also came up in the letter he sent shortly after the robbery to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, the city’s Board of Supervisors and Gov. Gavin Newsom about his robbery and urging them to place a higher priority on public safety.
“I recognize we live in an urban environment, but the level of crime, including violent behavior, has become absolutely unacceptable,” Moghadam wrote. “Obviously, the majority of voters feel this way, which is why they voted to recall our district attorney.
“Ten years ago, we acquired a larger company that was headquartered in Denver, but I insisted we keep our headquarters in San Francisco. Today, I am not sure I would make the same decision,” Moghadam wrote. “It is now difficult for me to tell potential candidates that they should move to San Francisco. We pay some of the highest taxes, local and state, in the nation yet we have no sense of security. Protecting public safety should be the government’s top priority — that is the foundation to a successful city.
“I am deeply concerned that our city may be so far down the path toward decline that we may never recover — or at least not for a long, long time,” Moghadam wrote. ...
“If you're paying so much for housing and paying such high level of taxes, you expect some basic government services, like public safety and being able to walk down the street without being accosted by homeless people or having to walk over human excrement to get to your office, which I do every day,” Moghadam said. “When a community develops a reputation for being unsafe or just a really awful environment to go to a meeting, it loses business and it’s hard to bring back.”
“You walk around the streets of San Francisco and it looks literally like a third world country. It’s just terrible,” said Moghadam, who the Business Times honored last year with its Most Admired CEO Lifetime Achievement Award. “We're spending a ton of money, so it’s not a money issue.”
Prior to the robbery, Moghadam said his involvement with civic issues focused on slowing the migration of businesses out of San Francisco, specifically citing the loss of Charles Schwab headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Bay Area also saw Tesla, McKesson and Oracle move their headquarters to Texas in recent years.
1337irr says
Eric Holder says
Onvacation says
I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.
I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.
I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.
That works well in many counties even in the bay area. However I'm 99% sure in SF judges do not look at any evidence or paperwork, unless the case gets media attention they rubberstamp everyone guilty as...
Parking tickets do not go in front of the judge in SF. All you get is "administrative review" with SFMTA "hearing officer".
Seattle business owners are installing 1-ton concrete blocks on city streets to prevent some of the 13,300 homeless people in the Dem-led city from camping out on the sidewalks
One-ton concrete blocks have been installed on Seattle's sideways in a bid to stop RVs and homeless tents being put up
The blocks are so heavy that they can't be moved without specialized equipment - making them burdensome for the city to remove
Despite it being illegal to place ecology blocks, sidewalks or parking spaces, anonymous residents continue to plant them in the city
... But now, parents say they have had to resort to conducting 'sweeps' of public parks to make sure there are no needles on the ground before allowing their kids to play on swing sets as the encampments continue to grow.
'How do we get to a place where we think that's normal and a part of life in Seattle?' one resident asked Fox News.
When San Francisco resident Marcia Saephan found her car broken into, she also found a flyer on the windshield from the thief.
The flyer says,
I don't want to STEAL anymore! But I still have to bills to pay. Can you help me please?
After that the thief listed ways that victims could send them money: Cash App, Bitcoin, and PayPal.
The downtown areas of San Francisco; Cleveland; and Portland, Oregon, have all had slow recoveries from pre-pandemic levels of activity, according to a new study.
The once-popular neighborhoods have seen a sharp decline in recent years, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found using GPS location data from 18 million cellphones, then comparing activity from before 2019 to activity from March through May of this year.
San Francisco only has 31% of the activity downtown compared to its pre-pandemic levels, putting the city in last place of the 62 cities measured, the study found.
Department of Justice’s probe into public corruption in the city and county of San Francisco.
August 25, 2022 Judge William Orrick Sentenced Mohammed Nuru to 7 years in Prison.
Mohammed Nuru in January pleaded guilty to what federal prosecutors described as “a staggering amount of public corruption” during his time leading the city’s Department of Public Works. Federal prosecutors said that over a 12-year period, Nuru accepted more than $1 million in money, international trips, jewelry, restaurant meals and other goods and services from city contractors and developers in exchange for preferential treatment and confidential information about city business.
https://slaynews.com/news/san-francisco-business-owners-revolt-wont-pay-taxes-until-city-cleans-up-crime-and-homelessness/
Lol, those very same people almost certainly voted for the lefties who caused those problems!
he Castro Merchants Association sent a letter to San Francisco city officials telling them they plan to stop paying taxes if San Francisco doesn’t do more to address burglaries, vandalism, people with behavioral health problems, and the homeless camping wherever they want.
The most astounding thing is that both the naked guy and the one who attacked him are wearing masks.
For their safety, you know.
I think this is Westfield Mall in SF.
https://nitter.net/pmarca/status/1508647586701344771#m
A man wakes up in San Francisco, has breakfast, showers, and gets ready for work. As he opens his front door he discovers a fresh deuce on the stoop of his seven-million-dollar row home. In a previous time, he would have noticed it earlier in the morning when he went to fetch the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times or Wall Street Journal newspapers.
Today he stumbles past the yellow greasy and red foul-smelling excrement (a sign of poor diet or intestinal bleeding) on his way to see if his Range Rover is still where he left it the previous night. He notices the depositor of the morning gift two stoops down curled up in an unwashed mess, his pants around his ankles and his buttcheeks smeared with evidence of his offering. Completely out in heroin dreamland, the perp’s right hand limply grasps a clear and orange syringe with black etched lettering along the side that reads: Courtesy of the law-abiding tax-paying citizens of San Francisco.
Last year this man paid $59,000 to the state of California for the privilege of this morning’s experience, and another $122,000 to the federal government which is in the process of funding thousands more armed IRS enforcers to make sure this man or any other working citizen doesn’t get any funny ideas about keeping one dollar more than they’re allowed from the fruits of their own labor, by a government that offers them nothing in return and openly detests them. ...
This man will again soon vote for the people responsible for this soft anarcho-tyranny that blesses his days and exploits his labor earnings while refusing to provide a modicum of protection of property or liberty. This man like millions of others in failing Democrat-controlled urban hellscapes is not a fast learner.
Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD
8h
San Francisco right now
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