Pretty Crazy

This is simply something to sit and ponder upon.

Folks in San Francisco's Mission Dolores neighborhood.....on the NE part of SF....finally got fed up with homeless drug addicts camping out in their neighborhood.  So they put their money up into a bundle and bought these rocks to place along the street and sidewalk....basically to keep tents from being placed. 

If you go and look at the rocks....they are fairly big 'chunks'....maybe two to three feet long, and at least one to two feet thick.  On the 'big-rock' scale....I'd give them a '3'  to '4' at best. 

In the beginning....this worked well in the first couple of days of placement. 

So, as you might imagine....the city steps in.  No....the residents didn't ask the city for permission.  Public Works stepped in....upon a city order....to remove the rocks this week.  Why?  Well....an inspector looked at the rocks and said....'they weren't big enough'.  He kinda noted that some of the rocks had been pushed out into the street (yep, they were small enough for several homeless guys to push them around).

What the city says now?  They will do a review and come to two decisions....either 'bigger' rocks or some type of landscaping that prevents tent placement.

So you look at this and shake your head.  The amount of time to review this?  I'll bet on this taking a minimum of one year.  Residents will be shaking their heads because this ought to take less than five days to plan out, purchase the rocks, and place them. 

These city planner people will hire some special 'rock-expert' (probably in the $60-per-hour range), who will list out the size and type of rocks to use.  I would imagine that these will all be non-California rocks (coming out of some Minnesota rock quarry and shipped by truck to SF).  Each truckload will probably cost in the $150,000 range to be delivered.  People will be amazed to watch this convoy of forty trucks going across the US....loaded with SF boulders.  Then it'll take a specially-trained team ($40-an-hour for work and members of the boulder-union) to place the rocks, with a rock-certified guy ($90-an-hour for his expertise) to sign off that it was safely placed and secure. 

Then as the initial special rocks get put in place....more neighborhoods will demand that they have the same rock placement, and eventually....some rock-department will be created, and bean-count each rock.  Around 2038, someone will discover that over 144,000 boulders now exist in San Francisco.  At that point, the anti-boulder agenda will be started....to cease the boulder epidemic.