MeDotOrg Walgreens theft in San Francisco

[Moksha]

One of my fellow optometrists said if this man tried to do that in his store he'd beat him until he cried for his mama.

Better not let your pre-schooler out of your sight in that store.

[canpakes]

One of my fellow optometrists said if this man tried to do that in his store he'd beat him until he cried for his mama.

And we all know what bad asses optometrists are. They will eyedrop the “F” out of you.

Hold up, now. You’re more correct than you realize. : )

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2 ... two-cases/

[Chap]

One of my fellow optometrists said if this man tried to do that in his store he'd beat him until he cried for his mama.

And we all know what bad asses optometrists are. They will eyedrop the “F” out of you.

Enough of these sad little fantasies of threat and violent revenge from the stream of consciousness of frightened males whose real fear is their own inadequacy.

They are boring, even slightly nauseating.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

One of my fellow optometrists said if this man tried to do that in his store he'd beat him until he cried for his mama.

White guy steals car and kid: https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/cr ... 94189.html

White guy steals $1500 worth of items at Home Depot: https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/geo ... QSZL3ANJE/

Why are southern white males so inherently corrupt?

- Doc

[Chap]

On that signature line:

“Sledge, what do you make of the Painesville Telegraph publishing their ‘Civil War’ article on Dec. 21st, and then four days later Joseph Smith had his ‘Civil War’ revelation that mirrored theirs?” - Asked and not answered more than six times.

That certainly does seem odd - did Sledge ever discuss this obvious problem in any way, or did he just ignore it?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

On that signature line:

“Sledge, what do you make of the Painesville Telegraph publishing their ‘Civil War’ article on Dec. 21st, and then four days later Joseph Smith had his ‘Civil War’ revelation that mirrored theirs?” - Asked and not answered more than six times.

That certainly does seem odd - did Sledge ever discuss this obvious problem in any way, or did he just ignore it?

He never answered the question of, “What do you make of ...”. He just deflected to FAIR and then claimed he answered the question.

- Doc

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Update:

In all, Lugo-Romero was charged with several counts of attempted grand theft, entering a business with intent to commit theft, loss under $950, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, robbery, burglary and petty theft. He also had a warrant for failure to appear on a prior theft case, according to authorities.

He was booked in San Francisco County Jail, police said.

We’ll see if the DA decides to prosecute him or not.

- Doc

[Moksha]

In all, Lugo-Romero was charged with...

- Doc

Pretty sure Ajax would add having a Hispanic last name to that indictment.

The DA will have considerable pressure on him to pursue this case.

[MeDotOrg]

I think the only thing relevant I can add is my own experience living in San Francisco.

San Francisco has a very temperate climate. California's 400 mile long Central Valley is separated from the Pacific Ocean by a coastal mountain range. In the Summertime the valley heats up, and the air is trapped by the coastal mountains on one side and the Sierra Nevada mountains on the other. But there is a big hole in the wall of the Pacific Coast mountains. It begins with San Francisco bay and extends inland to large wetland areas. As the warm air in the Central Valley rises, it creates a low pressure area, and the cold air from the Pacific Ocean gets sucked through the bay and into the Central Valley. If you want to know the weather in San Francisco in the summertime, you look at the temperatures in the Central Valley. If the valley has 3 days over 100°, you can expect heavy fog in San Francisco. June and July are actually the cloudiest months of the year. If you are homeless, the climate of San Francisco is hardly ever an issue. We live in the air conditioning duct for the Central Valley.

I live on the West side - south of Golden Gate Park, next door to the Haight-Ashbury district. At the top of the hill that separates the Sunset District and Haight-Ashbury is the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. The combination of sleeping in the park along with meds available through the Langley Porter makes my neighborhood one with a fair amount of homeless people, some of whom stay around for years.

Homelessness seem to grow during the 80's. There was a noticeable bump after the '89 Quake, and that never seem to go away. Between my apartment and Golden Gate Park is a little shopping district, and there are invariably homeless people panhandling. One guy I got to know so well I had him say "Happy Birthday" for a video montage I made for a friend. Covid made this winter hard for panhandlers. People were afraid to go near people that were not at the top of the list for vaccinations. Fortunately the city has done a very good outreach with vaccines for the homeless. City services are part of the homeless 'problem' in San Francisco. We offer better services to the homeless than many places.

Prior to the pandemic I was a Tour Guide. The Tours started from Fisherman's Wharf. There are a lot of Michael Jackson and Tony Bennett (It is San Francisco) imitators and various street performers. When things don't work out, Americans move west. It feels like the western edge of the Western world. At the Wharf, the Panhandle vibe can be more aggressive. There are ALWAYS panhandlers at the Wharf, Union Square, anywhere there are tourists and dollars. Consequently I think tourists get the impression there is more homelessness than there actually is, although it is certainly a problem.

The single biggest problem is the absence of land. San Francisco is 49 square miles, and it isn't getting any bigger. In the center of the bay is an old Naval Base, Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in San Francisco). For years it has sat dormant, with the City of San Francisco and the Department of the Navy fighting about cleanup costs. There are plans to put several thousand low-cost housing units on the island. People have actually talked about apartments that are entirely underground. Landlords rip out parking and replace it with new units. And parking is harder on the street because of all of the outdoor seating that has taken residence in parking spaces.

So what happens when you let the market prevail? What happens without Section 8 or subsidized housing? The joke in San Francisco is that you would have a city of dot.com millionaires yelling "Where's my cappuccino?", because baristas and waiters won't be able to afford to live here. It's already starting to happen in Marin County, where they don't have rent control.

There are aggressive panhandlers and people with alcohol problems. 6th Street and Mission is skid row, but it has been since I first came here in the 1960's. But people who only look at videos that paint the city as a Socialist hell hole will naturally see it that way. I've seen public urination, but I've never seen fecal matter on the street. I'm not saying it hasn't happened, but I don't you could count it as a common occurrence. If you live South of Market or in the Tenderloin, you're going to see a lot more homeless and a lot more despair.

San Francisco is relatively unique in that it feels like a bigger city than it is. I grew up in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley). The valley feels like a series of strip malls tied together by freeways. San Francisco has real neighborhoods. Fast food outlets are at a minimum. And the entire city can be transversed by public transit or bicycle in a way that makes owning a car an optional extra for many who live here.

It isn't for everyone. If I had a young family and wanted to buy a home, this about the toughest housing market around. The politics are definitely left-of-center, and any political environment that gets too monochromatic can get complacent and corrupt. We are far from the dirtiest city hall, but there always seems to be a kickback scandal or questionable business relationship.

But if you can find housing, or a good roommate situation, this city has charms like few others. There's a reason why it costs so much to live here. There's only so much San Francisco. If the city were remove zoning restrictions for chain stores and fast food restaurants, it would lose a lot of its charm. Ironically, the place with the most fast food restaurants is Fisherman's Wharf, which to me is very sad. You travelled across the country to eat at Applebee's?

Since the Gold Rush, San Francisco has resolutely been a little bit different, a combination of cosmopolitan and raffish, with opera and opium dens, poets and prostitutes. It has tried to hold on to its uniqueness. The city has a lot of problems, but it has character and a real sense of identity.

[ajax18]

So what happens when you let the market prevail? What happens without Section 8 or subsidized housing? The joke in San Francisco is that you would have a city of dot.com millionaires yelling "Where's my cappuccino?", because baristas and waiters won't be able to afford to live here. It's already starting to happen in Marin County, where they don't have rent control.

Rent control has been such a failure that even Californians didn't vote for it. Housing still costs money to build and maintain even when the government doesn't allow landlords to charge money for it. Where rent control has been implemented, landlords unsurprisingly no longer build (driving down supply) nor are they willing to maintain the upkeep on the housing. Rent control also drives down the value of market rate housing adjacent to rent control areas because as it turns out most families avoid areas where their kids wake up to seeing drunk homeless people sleeping on their driveways. Families who no longer need 4 bedroom houses when their kids leave home and would normally sell the property have little incentive to do so in a rent control area. Thus you get the phenomena of finding either homeless bums or people in the upper 5% of the income bracket and anyone in between has had to flee town.

But if you're happy with the fruits of liberal policy, that's perfectly ok with me as long as Californians don't come to my state and bring the same politics that created the current situation. Just keep it in California and New York and respect our right to deal with people like this thug in our land in the original post as we see fit.