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   Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 11:42:26 JST Tito Swineflu

   In my old neighborhood, if you called 311 about a pile of trash that no-one was yet using for a home, sometimes they'd come pick it up. Sometimes they'd drive by and say "not today satan" and leave it. Sometimes they wouldn't appear at all.
   I set up a recology bulky item pickup, but a dpw guy showed up and started picking all of it up. I told him that I'd scheduled with recology, but he was "no problem, I'll get it." I asked if someone had filed a request, but he said, "I was just driving by and saw it."
   I guess this is what it's like to live in the fancy part of town!

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 11:42:25 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     @tito_swineflu i did a bulky pick up. after it was out for 2 hours, dpw took it. i wasn't going to argue because i live in soma.

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     Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 11:49:54 JST Tito Swineflu

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     • Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

     @kingrat I did a bulky pickup the day before I left soma. Homeless people took the small pieces of sheetrock for some reason, there was some cardboard, and people moved that 50 feet down the street and tried to live in it. They took the ancient bbq with all the mold in it and put it under the freeway and burned the three-legged chair I put out in it. A few months later, that encampment was still using that bbq. Everything, even splinters of wood, was hauled off by scavengers!
     The funny thing is, I'm pretty confident that my name is flagged in 311 because of the front page story the sunday chronicle did on me and my shitty neighborhood 6 years ago. All of my neighbors would call in some pile of debris, and nothing would happen, but as soon as I did, it was gone.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 12:27:55 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     @tito_swineflu 311 got me nowhere until i contacted dorseys office. "just send us the tickets. we'll expedite them." "i have to file 4-6 tickets every day. but ok, if you insist." after me doing that every day for a month, soma west finally started sending someone to the street regularly. lots of tickets i included the soma west dude sitting in his truck ignoring the trash around him.

     talked to a soma west supervisor last week. they think the person filing the tickets is the guy across the street.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 12:29:54 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     @tito_swineflu i really wouldn't mind homeless folks scavenging my stuff except i know it'll just end up in a pile a block away blocking someone else's door

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     Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 12:37:33 JST Tito Swineflu

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     • Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

     @kingrat My problem was that everything turned into an encampment. One morning, I saw someone throw out a tv box - 6" wide by 5ft long. I thought, "I'd better go move that box before someone turns it into a house." I got out 20 minutes later, and it was still sitting on its narrow end (6"x5ft) when I went to pick it up though, there was already someone passed out inside it.

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     Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 12:40:31 JST Tito Swineflu

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     • Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

     @kingrat I contacted Dorsey's office to get the police to arrest a woman who assaulted our family. You'd have thought that would be right up his alley, but it turns out they have no juice with the cops over there.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 12:44:46 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     @tito_swineflu no one has juice with sfpd. they do what they want and only what they want. i doubt whether even breed could make something happen.