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APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Why not hire a sniper to take out the interlopers and provide employment?

Too messy, might affect tourism.

Then again it might spur tourism of a different sort.

How many collections of picked garbage and piles of fresh steaming human shit do you have to clean away from your own property, before you are allowed to take measures to keep ANYONE from hunkering down on YOUR PROPERTY without criticism from people NOT cleaning up such messes?

Seriously, what is a law abiding person supposed to do? Wait until after they're gone to see if they are vermin (left a disgusting mess) or destitute (left, period) day after day, forever?

After SOME of the more creative shit-storms, I've been tempted to design a bed of spikes that are recessed 100%, and thrust up several feet and retract quickly at the touch of a button.

There should be more of this kind of stuff in San Francisco. A lot of the bus benches have dividers between the seats to keep hobos from sleeping on them. Any business owner in SF with an awning or inset doorway has to be somewhat aggressive in keeping away vagrants, or else they will spend a lot of time with a hose removing the urine stink from the front of their business and probably steam-cleaning the area every so often. Anyone who spends significant time in SF has played "human or animal?" when seeing feces on the ground.

Well there is a simple, nonlethal answer. Place a fire hose triggered by a heat sensor just above the coveted doorway. When someone lingers too long the firehose goes off.

Property owner gets a bum-free doorway and the bum gets a free shower. Any feces or urine are automatically flushed away too! Everyone wins!

As a bonus there is tax deduction for fire hoses that spray scented disinfectant water.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

New Renter says

Well there is a simple, nonlethal answer. Place a fire hose triggered by a heat sensor just above the coveted doorway. When someone lingers too long the firehose goes off.

Replace this with a flame thrower and the property manager could sell tickets.

So new renter washes them, and Apolcayp cooks them.
I wonder how bbq'd vermin tastes.

Strategist says

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

New Renter says

Well there is a simple, nonlethal answer. Place a fire hose triggered by a heat sensor just above the coveted doorway. When someone lingers too long the firehose goes off.

Replace this with a flame thrower and the property manager could sell tickets.

So new renter washes them, and Apolcayp cooks them.

I wonder how bbq'd vermin tastes.

You are right, these technologies are not mutually exclusive. First wash, then hit with a clean (natural gas, propane but NOT napalm) based flamethrower.

Lunch is served. Hope you like your soylent green extra crispy!

Maybe they are just to keep the homeless from blowing around in wind gusts.

If those fuckers don't want to sell shitty deal securities in The City, the hell with them!

darlag says

The London mayor calls it "stupid" and urges businesses and apartment owners to remove the spikes.

Hey, Boris, how about you shut the fuck up and start working on a solution to homelessness in London. This is your fucking job after all. Can't shit? Get off the crapper and let someone else try.

Uh, I think that's evidence from sanfranciscans playing 'the dating game'...

corntrollio says

Anyone who spends significant time in SF has played "human or animal?" when seeing feces on the ground.

Don't they have sec 8, welfare, food stamps, etc etc. etc. in London??

I would use bigger spikes.

They could have floated the floor on a pitch, starting from the door to the wall. That way the bums wouldn't be able to sleep in the corner with out rolling down into the doorway.

lostand confused says

Don't they have sec 8, welfare, food stamps, etc etc. etc. in London??

Their welfare system is even worse then California. Like our homeless, their homeless prefer sleeping on the streets too.

I would just sprinkle itching powder if I was the owner of that property.
They won't come back.

Strategist says

I would just sprinkle itching powder if I was the owner of that property.

They won't come back.

Any effect of itching powder would be buried in the itching from lice, fleas and other vermin.