Not to worry, DoorDash still delivers to Pacific Heights

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SF Market Closing After 35 Years, Owner Cites Homelessness as a Factor

John Sexton, HotAir:

When a brand new Whole Foods store in San Francisco closed last year we eventually learned why. The safety of the store's workers and the financial situation of the store itself were being impacted by the homeless.

People threatened employees with guns, knives and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought and tried to defecate on the floor, according to records of 568 emergency calls over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem.

“Male w/machete is back,” the report on one 911 call states. “Another security guard was just assaulted,” another says. A man with a four-inch knife attacked several security guards, then sprayed store employees with foam from a fire extinguisher, according to a third...

Police described theft as rampant at Whole Foods, with thieves walking out with armfuls of alcohol, at least at the start. After 250 shopping hand baskets were stolen, the company restocked with 50 more. Those went missing, too.

Over the weekend, a market which has been in business for 35 years announced it was closing one of its two locations for the same reason. Owner David Pesusic cited rampant theft by homeless people as a major factor. 

In addition to inflation-fueled bills and declining foot traffic, the small grocery and deli has suffered from “rampant” crime, including near-daily shoplifting and three break-ins in the past couple years, Pesusic said. He blamed city officials for the increased crime, slamming law enforcement and city leaders for being unresponsive and overly permissive.

“Our family business is going down the tubes because the idiots in City Hall can’t protect us,” Pesusic told the Chronicle.

Statistically, crime is down in the city compared to last year, but Pesusic says the numbers don't tell the whole story. His store doesn't even call police half the time because they know no one will show up anyway, at least not for many hours.

Law enforcement has taken hours to respond to petty crimes at Bayside, if they respond at all, Pesusic said. During two of the three break-ins the business faced over the past two years, he said police officers took over eight hours to arrive on the scene. And the market’s employees have stopped reporting shoplifting incidents, which Pesusic said occur at least 5- 6 times a week, and sometimes up to five times in one day...

In the absence of law enforcement, people deal drugs right outside Bayside’s doors and serial shoplifters operate with no consequences, Pesusic said. 

“These guys think our store is a pantry where they can take whatever they want,” Pesusic said. “We’ve been spit at, we’ve had knives pulled on us, we’ve been called names.

The homeless aren't the only thing driving Pesusic out of business. He showed the SF standard an electricity bill that jumped $3,000 between July and August. There's not much he can do about that. California's electricity rates are some of the highest in the country and are especially bad in northern California. But ultimately, the last straw for Pesusic was the safety of his employees.

“I can’t prevent the homeless coming in, I can’t prevent shoplifters, I can’t control PG&E’s rates,” Pesusic told The Standard. “How do you justify staying?”...

“The only reason that we’ve lasted as long as we’ve lasted — it’s gonna make me cry — is our dedicated employees, you know, them having our backs and watching out over what’s going on inside of the store,” Pesusic said.

In the days since the closure notice was posted on the door, customers have praised the owners for telling it like it is — even as they mourn the loss of the neighborhood market.

“Everyone has complimented us and said, ‘Well said,’” Pesusic noted. “We stated no lies. Life is more important than a dollar, and the city doesn’t get that.”

The doors of Bayside Market will close permanently this Friday.

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Greenwich residents complained 300+ times about leaf blower ban violations this summer, data shows

GREENWICH — Residents were burning up the Greenwich police phone lines in May, calling about alleged violations of the town's new leaf blower restrictions, but the fervor died down through the rest of the summer, call logs show.

Officials banned the summertime use of gas-powered leaf blowers in January and the restrictions took effect for the first time on May 25. The police are in charge of enforcing the town's noise laws.

During the first 30 days of the ban, GPD received 162 calls about blower usage. The rest of the summer, from June 25 to Sept. 2, saw 149 calls, according to call log data provided by the Greenwich Police Department.

Police received an average of roughly five blower calls a day during the first month of the ban, but the average dropped to about two calls a day through the rest of the summer.

No neighborhood was spared from blower noise, based on the call logs: Homes in Cos Cob, businesses in Central Greenwich, estates in the Backcountry, and more were reported for blower noise.

Most of the summer calls were "unfounded," according to police Lt. Patrick Smyth, meaning the responding officer did not find a violation. This was also the case in the first 30 days.

The rules state, in part, that gasoline-powered leaf blowers are prohibited in residential zones from 6 p.m. the Friday before Memorial Day through Sept. 30, except for properties of two acres or more, where the prohibition ends the day after Labor Day.

That means people on smaller properties are still not allowed to use gas blowers, but neighbors with more land could use them as of Monday.

The first year of the ban was pitched as an adjustment period with no fines levied.

Next year, people caught using gas-powered blowers will be warned first and then fined $100 if found violating the law a second time. Each subsequent offense will carry a $249 penalty, according to the noise ordinance.

brother against brother on round hill road


If cramming for tomorrow's debate for the past ten days is "punishment" she must have had a terwibble time in school

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So I'm thinking of moving here to rehoboth — whadda'ya think: can we get that old man in the beach chair moved outta da way?"

Biden-Harris Cabinet Secretary Claims ‘Punishing Schedule’ Makes It Impossible For Kamala To Answer Questions

She spent 3 days at Howard University and 7 more at a secret, undisclosed location” last week being tutored for her debate, emerging just once, for a photo-op at one (of 67) spice shops owned by a Republican-hating maniac, to tout “pwease and reconciliation”.

And that was it.

They won't give up on the Russian gambit because they really have nothing else to discuss except their candidate’s love of cooking

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off to cover the "news"

COTTON: People should not knowingly take money from the government of Russia, Iran, or China, or any other adversarial nation to try to influence the election. But I also think it's fair to say that a few memes or videos in the vast sea of political commentary is not going to make much of a difference in this election — nor has it in past elections, as well. 

What did make a difference in the last election is the lies about Hunter Biden's laptop that more than four dozen former intelligence officials lied about in the middle of that campaign[*]. And most networks, including this one, bought that lie hook, line, and sinker. That did make a difference in the election. But I think a few videos or commentaries, which again, you shouldn't do if you're out there in the business of commentating on elections, is not going to make a difference in the vast sea of commentary you see.

*One of whom was her ex-husband Jeremy Bash, for what that’s worth — Ed

Gee, next we'll learn that Russia Gate was a scam, and Hunter's notebook was real

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DOJ Public Affairs Chief Says Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Was 'A Perversion of Justice'

John Sexton, HotAir:

As you probably remember, Bragg used some creative legal work to turn a bunch of misdemeanor infractions involving business records into a host of felony charges. Now the DOJ Chief of Public Affairs for the southern district of New York, Nicholas Biase, is on video saying the whole case was "nonsense."

Kudos to Crowder for getting the video but also for saying right out of the gate that Biase is not the bad guy here. What we're getting is an unbiased take from someone who worked with Alvin Bragg for 10 years. 

"He [Bragg] was stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case. No, to be honest with you I think the case is nonsense," Biase said. He continued, "Every real estate person in New York does what he [Trump] did. Nobody's ever been charged with this. It's all him [Trump]." 

"You know it's a perversion of justice," Biase said.

“Biase doesn't seem any more impressed with the Georgia case run by Fani Willis. He calls that one ‘a mockery of justice’. “

People should be jailed for this, but won’t be.