Homeless in San Fran

Hear about the exciting change in getting the homeless off the streets of San Francisco?  Don't get too excited....I didn't exactly say the homeless were being helped...rather they are being blasted away from their usual homeless homes on the streets by very loud, obnoxious music.  Wow, what a great idea.  Why haven't our city officials thought of this before?  Does it matter that these homeless people are just moving along to new locations.....talk about kicking the cans down the road....... Nevermind that many or most of these particular homeless (so they say) refuse to go to shelters...so I guess these are the hardened, stubborn  sect of the homeless population in San Francisco.  Let's face it, what could be better than living on the street, possibly in a cardboard box, with all your stuff and maybe even with a pet...an awesome lifestyle, one to be admired and maybe even envied....no work...just sit around all day...freedom at its best!  Oh, yeah, that's not counting the freezing cold or the burning heat of the concrete and a few other nasty little annoyances......... So when you think about it, wow, the blasting music is really a great problem solver.  #1, it's sooooo cheap to administer.  #2.  No one can accuse the police of using excessive force...hell, they don't even have to be there.  That's a money saver right there.  And it works so quickly...it's amazing how fast the normally paralyzingly slow homeless can actually move.....good exercise for them too.  Maybe all this exercise will actually force them into shape, well, maybe not the greatest shape, but good enough to possibly get a job lifting and moving stuff.  Afterall, years laying around on the streets creates muscle atrophy, as we all know, and what better way to get in shape then short sprints in the opposite direction of the blaring music?  What say you?  You're skeptical about this approach to solving the homeless problem?  I'm thinking this is a quick, cheap way to resolve an ugly problem, what with all those dirty people laying around all over the streets.  Hell, it's hard to even step over them with several in a row.  Not to mention it's dangerous for those of us who have to walk into the street to get around them.  We must think of the average person's safety, afterall.   And of course we must realize that the best part of this plan is that it works.....fast.  Fast is good, right?

Leslie Brownstein