LAist: Sleepless in San Francisco

lahipster

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:12:08 -0800

the photo was taken at venice beach

William

Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:57 -0800

I'm not surprised. I've encountered kids like this everywhere. Being young myself, I have a different perspective. Nevertheless, these kids aren't doing what they're doing because they're neglected, it's because they're losers. Homeless and drug addicts? Give me a break. These were the private school kids who ran away and did too much heroin to return home. They didn't grow up in the ghetto. I'm not going to have pity on some kid who was too stupid to know what was up. They aren't like this because society neglected them, they are like this because they have forsaken society. There is the same thing going on in Italy. Punkabustas. Dirty ass kids, long hair, big dogs with them. They look like what you would expect humans to look like after a nuclear war - dressed with whatever piece of clothing they could find, it looks like. All they do is call ruckus, they smell like shit. Things like that aren't necessary in Italy - it's practically a welfare state. Nevertheless, they're mad at the world and they think the rest of the world should be, too. You got one thing right: the only ones who can afford to do this shit are middle-class white kids.

tomdog

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:32:24 -0800

I lived in the Haight for almost a decade (until 2001) and post-Mayor Jordan (aka the Willie Brown years) the number of hooligans in the neighborhood skyrocketed. These kids were shitting in my driveway, fucking on the porch, huffing paint on the sidewalk, dealing drugs in plain view on the corner, and attacking residents with chains/knives/bottles as they walked home from the N Judah stop near the Kezar Club. Whenever cold or wet weather rolled in this population was diminished by at least 80% as the vast majority went back home to the 'burbs. Easy access to free food and services from misguided aging hippies is a big reason why these kids hung around. There's a good reason why you don't feed pigeons and other vermin - it encourages them to hang around and reproduce.

tomdog

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:07:20 -0800