Life in the workers paradise of San Francisco
Give people a lot of free stuff and they start taking it for granted and not motivating themselves to improve their lot in life. Some people just settle for a bare minimum.
From the
San Francisco Chronicle:
Human waste shuts down BART escalators
When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.
While the sheer volume of human waste was surprising, its presence was not. Once the stations close, the bottom of BART station stairwells in downtown San Francisco are often a prime location for homeless people to camp for the night or find a private place to relieve themselves.
All those biological excretions can gum up the wheels and gears of BART's escalators, shutting them down for long periods of extended repairs, increasing station cleaning costs and creating an unpleasant aroma for morning commuters.
Five of the nine escalators that weren't working at BART stations on Wednesday were in downtown San Francisco, said Jim Allison, a BART spokesman. While there are many reasons a BART escalator can break down, the beating they take at night is among the most acute.
Feral humans. Shades of
Lord of the Flies.
Posted by DaveH at July 26, 2012 3:44 PM