You don’t need to be a weatherman to which way the wind blows and Citizens for Halloween are forecasting golden showers, predicting a thunder clash of party revelers and cops with no port-a-potties in sight.Co-founder and SF Party Party blogger, Ted Strawser, reached out to Castro resident and Port-a-potty guy, Michael Staley, in an effort to dam the urine river before it starts, offering outhouses to neighborhood homeowners.
But, on Tuesday, the Department of Public Works informed him that it would violate city bylaws to issue him a port-a-john.
Instead, The City hopes to stem the tide with a combination of lame PSA Announcements, Aggressive Law Enforcement, and Intimidating Bar Owners.
The No Halloween In the Castro Ads urge partiers to stay home or head somewhere other than the Castro:
“Because this year, the Castro is not where it’s happening”
The City’s Law Enforcement Plan includes:
• Deputy Chief David Shinn says Capt. John Goldberg will head the Mission Station, will receive reports every half hour from command stations throughout the city to deploy police as needed. He Shinn described a “aggressive enforcement” policy for drunkenness, public urination and other likely offenses.
• Shinn and at least half a dozen other officials made pains to note that Muni buses and drivers will be available to ferry “platoons” of cops around town like troop transports.
• Unlike the past, the streets will only be barricaded on an as-needed basis. Also, less of the Castro will be off-limits for parking than in the past.
• Large numbers of Meter Maids and Tow Trucks will be on-scene, to expedite the towing of cars in the no-parking zones, driveways or sidewalks.
• California Highway Patrol officers will be manning DUI checkpoints.
Joe Alioto Veronese, a civil rights attorney, also pointed out that by canceling the official Halloween event and opting not to barricade streets, the city had no legal right to subject random citizens to a weapons check as it did last year.
A number of Castro denizens went on to angrily accuse Supervisor Bevan Dufty, the mayor’s office and the police of attempting to intimidate local businesses into closing on Halloween – as the Weekly noted in its latest print edition.
European in the Castro?
I guess Gavin’s PSA’s don’t include subtitles - lol. Seriously, get your nose plugs out. No rain ’til Wednesday - peewww-eeee!
Complete Article: 100,000 People Are Coming: Where Will They Urinate? by Joe Eskenazi, SF Weekly
Breakin News: Castro Business Owners Forced to Board Up by Traci Grant, NBC11
Related Post: Smashing Pumpkins with Gavin Newsom
1 comment:
Spending $40,000 on a lame Halloween campaign is an embarrassment. Perry & Associates made some real cheap posters that a Kindergarten child would do with construction paper, and those "TV" PSAs, lets say that making it in the KRON studios (the lamest station in town) aint worth it.
Seems that Perry & Associates does not like me, ever since I made that anti-PSA video on youtube (FOR FREE); they banned me from making comments on any of their videos.
Newsom and his puppets are at fault because if they truly wanted to cancel Halloween in the Castro, they sure did not fully follow-up with an appropriate sanctioned event as they promised earlier in the year.
If things go real bad this year, then Newsom is going to take a heavy price in the poll numbers.
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