Last Saturday night, Panda Express in Marysville had two street guys welcoming customers at the front door. Another sojourner was snoozing along the east window like a big fish in an aquarium, just inches away from diners woofing down Orange Chicken inside. Under California’s Gig Economy law these ‘volunteers’ should be considered employees of the Chinese fast food outlet.
With ‘homeless campers’ being shot, stabbed, beaten with blunt objects, overdosing and found floating in the Feather River our communities have become more colorful and culturally diverse than ever before, a Leftist dream come true. Hippies rejoice, this is the back to nature movement you longed for 50-years-ago.
Taxpayer-funded addiction does wonders. This is the ultimate photo-op for smiling and back-slapping ‘humanitarian’ judges, legislators and local officials. However, small business owners tiring of government oppression, shit on their doorsteps and arguing with reclining vagrants are moving.
Even California’s Oracle Corp. just announced it is moving its annual San Francisco (SF) technology convention to Las Vegas. The tech giant signed a three-year agreement to bring its OpenWorld convention to Las Vegas, citing rising hotel rates throughout the Bay Area as well as poor street conditions in SF.
The relocated convention — the third-biggest held in SF in recent years based on room nights — will be a substantial loss to the city. The loss comes to a minimum of 62,000 hotel room nights and a $64 million negative impact. OpenWorld events have been located at the Moscone Center for the past two decades.
The rising cost of hosting events in SF has become an increasing concern among hospitality professionals. The average hotel rate in the metro area was nearly $264 a night in October, according to data from hotel analyst STR. According to Cheaphotels.org, Las Vegas is one of the most affordable cities for hotels, with rates averaging about $69 a night.
Another factor was the SF street drama. There were more than 30,000 car break-ins in 2018. Human waste, used needles and SF’s ‘finest’ leaning and lying around, drooling and vomiting was finally a deal breaker.
Meanwhile in other communities, a Los Angeles (LA) family visiting Seattle was stuck by a 23-year-old female transient driving high on meth as they exited their hotel. Two siblings died and the father injured. The driver, of course, fled on foot and was found in an alcove changing clothes. While being arrested, she was singing, dancing and blaming the police. Yep, she just needed a tiny house.
Last month, LA Police shot and killed a transient who chased an officer into the street with a foot-long machete. This ‘poor fellow’ robbed an auto parts store at knifepoint, then carjacked a vehicle from a fast food drive-thru and clipped two police cars. People say the guy was ‘troubled.’
Also in LA, an 11-year-old was walking home from a soccer game in Westchester when a male transient grabbed him by the neck and said, “You’re not going to see your parents after I kill you.” The child escaped. His father said when the suspect was arrested that he resisted and had to be taken away by ambulance. This is just another day for an 11-year-old in a city run by kooks.
In Santa Rosa, out for a walk behind a high school, a woman was attacked by dogs living at a homeless camp. Bitten and dragged, the lady suffered tendon, bone and nerve damage resulting in emergency surgery and a three-day hospital stay. Camps with aggressive dogs now rule many California communities. Yuba-Sutter residents report similar attacks while walking the levees or trying to approach the rivers.
A male transient in North Sacramento threatened to kill a man with a hatchet, and when police officers made contact, the suspect threw a large rock at one officer, injuring him, and fled. When found, he was uncooperative even when ‘tased.’ The transient’s dog then began biting one of the officers, forcing him to kill the dog.
Earlier that same day in downtown Sacramento, a transient punched a woman in the face in an attempt to take her purse. A citizen intervened, detaining the suspect until police arrived. The day before, a man was shot and killed at a homeless camp in the backyard of a residence in the suburb of Rancho Cordova.
The liberal answer is more and more money for shit patrols, needle retrieval, nonsense, and bigger government. This is the utopia, or haven’t you noticed?
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