Don’t take my word for it — take the word of the San Francisco Health Department:
The camp at Occupy San Francisco is an imminent hazard to health, the city’s public health department told demonstrators late Tuesday.
“Evidence of excrement, urine and vomit were observed throughout the park,” the department said in a notice. “Fecal material was observed on stairs and grass. A container of human waste was observed along the Embarcadero side of the park.”
“Several piles of vomit were observed along the Embarcadero side of the park,” the notice read. “Pile of feces and tampons found at a nearby pathway. Flies and urine observed along pathway.”
The health notice and a separate order from police to leave the park may be a sign that the city is laying the groundwork to clear out the park.
Some of the protesters try to downplay the problem by pointing out that San Francisco is always this gross, but the city officials aren’t buying it. Expect a clean-up operation soon, now that the Oakland city government has broken the ice.
– bocce courts and this would have been great weather to play. Is the “Zip Line” gone? Imagine zipping over that.
It’s all organic—what’s the problem?
“That’s not feces — that’s fertilizer for our organic garden!”
OWS needs to come up with a good euphemism for their droppings. How about “hominid guano”? “Intestinal fortitude”? “Affirmative earth deposits”?
Food in it’s recycling stage?
Tangible memories.
Did you ever read NINE PRINCES IN AMBER?
Over the past eight years many occasions to recall the blackened “fairy circles” They always started small, then slowly spread wider and wider until *things* would crawl of them.
Despite the artificial reasons for their squalor, these aren’t poor Indian Untouchables, they are the children of Brahmins.
The highest Brahmin caste (Le 1%) looks DOWN on the merchant class, as having to WORK for “money” is lower caste.
I think cholera and/or typhoid would be just desserts…..
Cholera is unlikely, given that the City’s water supply is pretty clean. Typhus? Well, given the conditions, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were lice.
*Shudder*
All by itself, that thought would send me running for home.
“Excrement, urine, vomit and tampons”
Sounds like a women’s bathroom.
A women’s bathroom at a Grateful Dead concert, maybe — not a women’s bathroom at the Kiwanis Club.
Except for the tampons, sounds more like the men’s bathroom. Men’s bathrooms are almost always far grosser than women’s. I used to clean them for my minimum wage job as a teen.
I found exactly the opposite when I cleaned bathrooms. And got a lump sum per night. And I never had to stick my arm down one of those narrow in the wall trash receptacles to dig out a pizza box while cleaning the men’s bathrooms.
“I found exactly the opposite when I cleaned bathrooms.”
Same here.
I agree also. I worked at a Winn Dixie when I was in high school, and the woman’s restroom was always much worse.
Depends on the venue. At the movie theater, the ladies room frequently looked like a troop of chimpanzees had been sick in it.
That reminds me…I’ve been meaning to reread The House at Poo Corner.
Yeah, but, um… the Tea Party was worse! Much much much much worse! Really!
In the same vein: Refresh my memory, o ye Lefties, in light of the news from the last 12 hours: Did the cops have to go to plastic baton rounds in order to quell the *Tea Party* riots, or were they able to use only flashbangs and tear gas? I honestly just don’t recall.
Just like the Tea Parties. Ya?
Go, City Health Department!
These idiots are going to cause some kind of disease outbreak.
Actually, the miracle is that SF hasn’t had something disgusting break loose, given all the times that Food Not Bombs has fed the homeless soy-based products.
Odd bit of trivia: a protein-rich diet has a lot more pathogenic microorganisms than a vegan diet. If these are real, genuine vegan hippies, their poo may actually be less dangerous than that of a meat-eater. That’s the main reason why domestic animal manure isn’t as dangerous as human poo. And why you should fear the bear who craps in the woods.
Interesting trivia.
But we already know these hippies are not serious anything, so….
What if some of them develop immunities and become some sort of super hippies. With enough exposure they might become resistant to tear gas too.
The bear that craps in the woods eats a mostly fruit diet, not much meat. The reason to fear him is not his poop, but that you might be his special meat treat.
I lived in Northern California and worked in San Francisco and Oakland for 25 years ending in 2005. “Something disgusting has broken loose” in San Francisco since the 1980′s. The beautiful city by the Bay has been trashed by homeless, jobless and shiftless drifters while the visitors avert their eyes from the trash and their ears from the aggressive panhandling. The city supervisors pander to society’s victim class, driving away businesses with oppressive regulations and changing a vital blue-collar economy to a welfare economy supported by tourism and taxes. Even Oakland sucked it up and dispersed the Woodstock wannabes so that the city could clean up the trash and debris and give the streets and parks back to the residents. Only the capitol of Political Correctness of Northern California remains trappped by the disciples of Van Jones, a morally bankrupt city in a financially bankrupt state.
“Excrement, urine, vomit and tampons” Oh My!
Contrast with any Tea Party rally in the country.
No, Occunuisance is nothing like the Tea Party.
– up, but there is still a stink.
Oakland occupiers used the same argument when complaints about higher crime rates around the occupied plaza were piling up. “This was a high crime neighborhood already!”
Priceless.
“Excrement, urine, vomit and tampons”
Hey………… that’s been the status quo in many parts of SF for YEARS!
If they let this go on knowing the hazard, and other people around there get sick, can the city be sued?
I am not a lawyer, but I will quote a lawyer who says, “Anybody can sue anybody for just about anything. Winning the lawsuit is another matter.”
I am wondering what will happen in the cold weather when the Occubaggers are getting cold and are using artificial sources of heat. A fire could sweep through the makeshift city, under the right conditions. What if the fire spreads out of the tent city and endangers neighboring businesses or residents?
Lock the gates.
Make them stay.
Hopefully Obama can drop by for a solidarity visit but the offal might ruin the crease in his pants.
Let these creeps marinate in their shit and urine.
So if the streets of your city were already soiled with excrements and bodily fluids, you would logically allow hundreds of unregulated people (the vagrants among them guilty of public defecation in the past) to congregate in public spaces to excacerbate the problem?
And cleaning up after OWS won’t be easy has removing filth from an unoccupied sidewalk. Rumor has it that the self appointed OWS planners aren’t too chummy with police, firefighters, and health officials who are actually certified and recognized under the law.
“I left my heart
“In San Francisco…”
Cut! REWRITE!
City authorities were remiss in letting these clowns bring in camping materials to begin with. The Tea Party would never have been allowed to do that.
Does the Occupy movement speak for you?
The mention of fire hazard is not a joke. San Francisco is less prepared now for a really major fire than it was before the Earthquake and Fire of a century ago. My grandfather could see the glow from the fires from Burbank. He saw the ruins, too.