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Real-Life Batman? Business Owner Dons Dark Disguise, Patrols Streets With Fake Gun to Scare off Thieves Who Brazenly Break Into Cars

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A San Francisco business owner who’s lived in the city for over 20 years has taken it upon himself to dress in a dark disguise and carry a fake gun as he patrols the streets around Fisherman’s Wharf, KGO-TV reported.

His goal? To stem the tide of rampant thefts from vehicles, the station said; more than 20,000 such thefts were reported last year. The mysterious fellow told KGO he battles back by spotting crooks in the act and scaring them away.

“Every day is a small victory,” he told the station. “You chase them off from one corner. You chase them off from this street.”

You might call him Batman — but KGO said local folks know him as Boots.

The station said that for years he’s captured videos of car break-ins and that his frustration led him to take matters into his own hands.

(Read more from “Real-Life Batman? Business Owner Dons Dark Disguise, Patrols Streets With Fake Gun to Scare off Thieves Who Brazenly Break Into Cars” HERE)

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Poop Problem Plagues Liberal City’s Mall Elevators

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People have been pooping in elevators at the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, and the frequency of the problem has reportedly picked up.

“It’s like twice a week now. It used to be once a month,” Abimael Garcia, who manages janitors at the mall, noted, according to the San Francisco Standard. “So lately, it’s increased.”

Garcia believes people poop in the elevators because they are the nearest semi-private areas to Mission Street, where there are often individuals camping, according to the outlet — several workers indicated the only routinely utilized public bathrooms at the mall are located on the second floor.

“It’s a long way to the bathrooms from Mission [Street],” Garcia remarked. “The elevators are closest to the street. It’s so easy.”

Other bathrooms like the facilities at the food court or in stores are often not open because of sanitation concerns or drug use, workers indicated, according to the outlet. (Read more from “Poop Problem Plagues Liberal City’s Mall Elevators” HERE)

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VIDEO: Two-Mile Long Vehicle Encampment Shows Result of California Housing Market

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San Francisco families are trying to survive in RVs and trailers after the housing market forced them into the situation.

The Daily Mail reported Friday there is a massive line of vehicles along Highway 101 winding along the coast for nearly two miles.

“Cities in Marin County, where on average homes cost $1.4million, are pushing for the line along the highway to end after the number of residents living in their cars ballooned during the pandemic,” the outlet said.

Families have apparently set up tents and use portable barbecues for cooking.

(Read more from “VIDEO: Two-Mile Long Vehicle Encampment Shows Result of California Housing Market” HERE)

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San Francisco to Air Black Reparations Plan, $5M per Person

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A controversial draft reparations proposal that includes a $5 million lump-sum payment for each eligible Black person could make San Francisco the first major U.S. city to fund reparations, though it faces steep financial headwinds and blistering criticism from conservatives.

Tuesday’s meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will include a presentation by San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which released its draft report in December. The $5 million-per-person payment is among more than 100 recommendations ranging from offering grants to buy and maintain homes to exempting Black businesses from paying taxes.

Supervisors can vote to adopt all, none or some of the recommendations and can change them. Several board members have expressed concerns over the potential hit the lump-sum payment and other options would have on the city budget, already facing a shortfall. (Read more from “San Francisco to Air Black Reparations Plan, $5M per Person” HERE)

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America Imploding: Video of School Kids Surrounded by Filth, Druggies, and the Homeless

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Children in San Francisco who were being escorted off a school bus can be seen having to negotiate their way through a crowd of homeless people living in squalor on a nearby sidewalk, a video posted to Twitter shows.

“Bye kids, go get home safe, OK?” says a man wearing a camouflage-colored jersey as he appears to usher them off the bus before panning the camera to show a sidewalk filled with many people who appear to be drug addicts nodding off amid filth.

“These little kids gotta walk through this s**t,” the man says at the end of the video. “It’s crazy.”

Last week, San Francisco implemented a six-month, $3 million program that will see community workers rather than police respond to low-level emergency calls about the homeless.

But many on Twitter, where the video has been viewed at least 40,000 times, don’t hold out much hope that the city will improve anytime soon.

(Read more from “America Imploding: Video of School Kids Surrounded by Filth, Druggies, and the Homeless” HERE)

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San Francisco Officials Slap Couple With a $1,500 Warning for Parking on Their Own Property

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As if parking in San Francisco wasn’t already difficult, the city’s planning commission took it a step further after threatening a couple with a $1,500 fine for parking their vehicle in their own driveway.

Ed and Judy Craine, a San Francisco couple who have parked car after car in their driveway for nearly 40 years, received a $1,542 warning from city officials stating parking a car in their driveway violated a code section that banned vehicles from parking in the setback in front of houses — regardless if it doesn’t block a sidewalk, ABC7 reported. To make matters worse, the city would add $250 per day if the car wasn’t removed from the driveway that “as far they could tell” was used as a place to park vehicles since the house was built in 1910.

“To all of a sudden to be told you can’t use something that we could use for years,” Ed told ABC7. “It’s, it’s startling. Inexplicable.”

“It was very surprising, to say the least,” Judy said. “I wrote them back saying I thought this was a mistake.”

But the city said otherwise and gave them a chance to prove that past residents have historically used the space a lot. If successfully, they might get a waiver. (Read more from “San Francisco Officials Slap Couple With a $1,500 Warning for Parking on Their Own Property” HERE)

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‘Pretty F**kin’ Easy Here’: Homeless Californian Boasts About Having Amazon Prime, Netflix (VIDEO)

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A homeless San Francisco man said during an interview with author Michael Shellenberger that the city pays him to be homeless and boasted about having a cell phone with Amazon Prime and Netflix in a video posted Wednesday to Twitter.

“If you’re gonna be homeless, it’s pretty f**kin’ easy here” the homeless man, named James, said to Shellenberger during their interview. “I mean if we’re gonna be realistic, they pay you to be homeless here” he continued.

[Warning: video contains explicit language.]

“When you said that San Francisco pays people to be homeless, what did you mean by that? Did you mean that literally?” Shellenberger asked.

“I get $620 a month, dude,” James replied. (Read more from “‘Pretty F**kin’ Easy Here’: Homeless Californian Boasts About Having Amazon Prime, Netflix (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Restaurant Refuses Service to 3 On-Duty Police Officers

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A co-owner of a San Francisco restaurant defended refusing service to three uniformed police officers following backlash over the move, calling her establishment a “safe space.”

The on-duty officers were seated at the restaurant Friday but were soon asked to leave because staff became “uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons,” according to an Instagram post from the restaurant, called Hilda and Jesse.

Amid public outrage, the co-owner of the North Beach eatery, Rachel Sillcocks, defended the move in an interview Saturday with KGO-TV in San Francisco

“It’s not about the fact that we are anti-police,” she said. “It is about the fact that we do not allow weapons in our restaurant. We were uncomfortable, and we asked them to leave. It has nothing to do that they were officers. It has everything to do that they were carrying guns.” . . .

In an Instagram post Saturday reacting to the criticism, Sillcocks emphasized her restaurant is “a safe space.” (Read more from “Restaurant Refuses Service to 3 On-Duty Police Officers” HERE)

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WATCH: ‘Mass Looting’ Moves to San Francisco Bay Suburbs

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A looting spree in the San Francisco Bay Area continued for a second straight night on Saturday — this time, reaching the suburbs.

A “mass looting” took place at about 9:00 p.m. Saturday evening at the Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek, California, an affluent suburb east of Oakland.

Dozens of people were seen raiding the department store before making their escape:

The looters’ method is apparently to travel in large convoys of vehicles, block roads, and then seize whatever they can before leaving. (Read more from “WATCH: ‘Mass Looting’ Moves to San Francisco Bay Suburbs” HERE)

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In-N-Out Exec: We Refuse To Be ‘Vaccination Police for Any Government’

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In-N-Out Burger is taking a firm stand against San Francisco COVID-19 restrictions that require businesses to check the vaccination status of customers before serving them food — a stand that has forced the restaurant to temporarily close down in at least one of its locations.

As highlighted by The Daily Wire on Tuesday, a San Fransisco In-N-Out Burger location was shut down for not checking customers’ vaccine status. The restaurant has opened up outdoors, but its indoor dining is still closed for refusal to comply with the health order.

In the wake of the forced closure, In-N-Out Burger’s Chief Legal and Business Officer Arnie Wensinger slammed the order as discriminatory, underscoring that the company, headed by 39-year-old Lynsi Snyder, refuses to become “the vaccination police for any government.”

“Our store properly and clearly posted signage to communicate local vaccination requirements,” Wensinger explained in a statement sent to Fox News. “After closing our restaurant, local regulators informed us that our restaurant Associates must actively intervene by demanding proof of vaccination and photo identification from every Customer, then act as enforcement personnel by barring entry for any Customers without the proper documentation.”

“‘We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” said Wensinger, adding that the San Francisco Department of Health’s requirements are “unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe.” (Read more from “In-N-Out Exec: We Refuse To Be ‘Vaccination Police for Any Government’” HERE)

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