How Inhuman Can You Get?

[Redhelen72]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11620589/San-Francisco-gallery-owner-HOSES-homeless-woman-says-hes-sorry-didnt-move.html

Did he really feel that this was necessary?

[jno]

they've had big problems with fentanyl there, but I don't think it can be solved by hoses.

[Patsy33]

Just shows the disdain for 'poor' people, a lot of them through no fault of their own or who maybe fell on hard times. Money talks, unfortunately.

[fitdarren]

Maybe he'd tried to move her away many times and she wouldn't budge and he was now at his wit's end. Not something I'd do though.

[Ken4155]

^
He doesn't look 'at his wit's end'. His posture would be the same were he watering his lawn - smug and totally non-plussed. IMHO, i hasten to add.

[jno]

he's a gallery owner, not a street cleaner. She has as much right to be on a pavement as he has. She appears not even to be outside his gallery; that's the Barbarossa cocktail bar behind him.

[anneasquith]

Surely that’s assault. .

[fripfrip]

That's her dry january finished with.

[royfromaus]

Typical San Francisco day.

[fender62]

from the lyric: You're gonna meet some gentle people there, is and was a myth in 1967 and 2023, as for the vagrant, and the business man..
city council should do something, people pay taxes and expect a result.

[kuiperbelt]

/Surely that’s assault. ./

Not sure about it being classed as an assault here in the UK. However, certainly an offence which would lead to prosecution.

Remember a few years ago a bus driver drenched a pedestrian by driving through a puddle. The driver was charged and footed the cleaning bill too.

[douglas9401]

No claims of performance art yet?

[tomus42]

Unless he owns the pavement outside his gallery, he assaulted a member of the public.

[Barsel]

jno ///that's the Barbarossa cocktail bar behind him.///
The Barbarossa which is next door to the gallery have said it's nothing to do with them.

[jno]

I'll bet they did, Barsel. Perhaps he was on a mission to clean the whole street, not just the bit outside his gallery