San Francisco Soaks Homeless People in Tenderloin

For the past several weeks, the City of San Francisco's Department of Public Works and the Police Department have been working together to spray down homeless people in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. Water trucks usually go around between 3 and 4 in the morning, catching homeless people while they're asleep. After the sidewalks are sprayed down, there's nowhere dry in the neighborhood for homeless people to sleep.

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[StreetSheetSF]

We just deleted a comment for inappropriateness, but that comment effectively suggested that this was the only way to clean the sidewalks. It is, in fact, possible to clean the sidewalks without soaking homeless people. The Department of Public Works program in this video is not currently in operation, but DPW still cleans Central City sidewalks.

[MrSafetymeeting]

They spray because of all the piss and shit on the sidewalks.SF has no public toilets. I know it's wrong but is anyone suprised that the city workers don't just clean around them? They can't work during the day because there are too many people out.Can you imagine the mountain of crackhead poop we'd be living in if nobody cleaned up?

[non winter]

thats really fuckin sad..

[Skip M]

How the hell do you expect the bums to get clean?

[Lilboosdaddy]

DPW is just doing their job by cleaning the filthy sidewalks. If you do not like it, the city should let these bums piss, shit, shoot/smoke dope, and live on your door step... Then at the end of the day, spray everywhere else but your place.

[Kevin A]

they do this down on 13th street under the freeway all the time. The homeless who stay under the freeway are not around when the DPW comes around. If they are, they are warned a few minutes before the area is soaked. On the bright side, it's not done when it is storming so the homeless have some sort of shelter from the rain. It is not done to "wash away" the homeless but it is to clean the health hazards of urine and feces which would be knee deep otherwise.

[kinesis420]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!

[modernwarfarenoob]

@jcjohnson701 to clean the filth of the streets thats why

[MobyfromDick]

Evil at work.....guess we should save the rich and destroy the poor these days, what a wonderful new world we live in! No one really matters anymore unless they can afford to!

[dav909]

And so does Bacteria and Funus caused by piss, shit, and drug residued streets!

[Pietro Gori]

phneumonia kills

[Collin Bashaw]

Poor Homeless Dude! We need to support a shelter