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| San Francisco "Poop Patrollers" Make $185,000 |
| 2018-08-24 |
| [Zero Hedge] We wish we could say this was a satire piece, but a new story in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals just how lucrative collecting shit actually is. It's but the latest in a string of shocking revelations to hit headlines throughout the summer exposing how deep San Francisco's crisis of vast amounts of vagrant-generated feces covering its public streets actually runs (no pun intended). We detailed last week how city authorities have finally decided to do something after thousands of feces complaints (during only one week in July, over 16,000 were recorded), the cancellation of a major medical convention and an outraged new Mayor, London Breed, who was absolutely shocked after walking through her city: they established a professional "poop patrol". As described when the city initially unveiled the plan, the patrol will consist of a team of five staffers and a supervisor donning protective gear and patrolling the alleys around Polk Street and other "brown zones" in search of everything from hepatitis-laden Hershey squirts to worm-infested-logs. At the Poop Patrol's disposal will be a special vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner and disinfectant. The teams will begin their shifts in the afternoon, spotting and cleaning piles of feces before the city receives complaints in order "to be proactive" in the words of the Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, co-creator of the poop patrol initiative. While at first glance it doesn't sound like the type of job people will be knocking down human resources doors to apply for, the SF Chronicle has revealed just how much each member of this apparently elite "poop patrol" team will cost the city: $184,678 in salary and benefits. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 G'bye, Mom and Dad. Please don't cry. I'll make it in town, do or die, Where living's diseasy, But everything's sleazy And neon blinks, "Stadluft macht frei!" |
| Posted by: Snirt Bluetooth7993 2018-08-24 22:44 |
| #5 Cities were *deathtraps* with Negative Population Growth through most of our recorded history. Just pause a moment. *Negative*. Sanitation, civil engineering and modern medicine changed that. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-08-24 22:18 |
| #4 I guess $185k is a 'living wage' in SanFran. It's just not the Millennials who lack any understanding of history, its the current clown crowd in SanFran that doesn't understand how we got away of cycles of dysentery, typhoid, and cholera. The greatest medical advancement in the 20th Century was sanitation. But hey, it doesn't fit the narrative of flashing your social virtue. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-24 18:34 |
| #3 wondering how many vaccination shots I would want Once upon a time, the idea that you'd need vaccinations to visit an American city would be laughable. Not the 21st century I was expecting. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-08-24 15:14 |
| #2 *Shudder* I just had a thought wondering how many vaccination shots I would want before applying. Tell the Doctor "Start at Disease 'A' and go to 'Z'. Imagine that I am going to every disease hellhole on the planet!" |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-08-24 15:09 |
| #1 Obviously SF needs the experience and wisdom of miss pelosi to take charge in this beleaguered and brown city by the sea. She should vacate her chair in the House and head back home immediately where she is desperately needed. |
| Posted by: Roger29 Palms 2018-08-24 14:40 |