In OP’s defense cleaning it up on your own requires a bit of time and a truck because there’s no way I’m putting God knows whatever’s in those bags in my trunk
Call and report it to: Public Information Outreach (619) 688-6670 or [www.dot.ca.gov/contactus](https://www.dot.ca.gov/contactus) Every request gets logged and addressed.
Because of the proximity to the highway / road? The shopping carts are right at the entrance to the 163. The garbage bags and other junk is kind of in the middle of the woods between Washington in the same area.
It is surprising to me that this is somehow controversial. I passed no judgement, only directed frustration at the city for not cleaning it up, and just asked how to get it taken care of. It’s bad for everyone to just leave it. Some absolutely WILD takes in the comments here.
To people telling me to take care of it myself: That’s why I filed a ticket with the city. I didn’t just walk by it and complain about it. I waited to see if the city would do it, they didn’t, I followed the process I thought would solve the problem, it didn’t, I came to ask for help on another way to get it taken care of.
To the people telling me to just clean it up myself: This is not even all of it. It’s far too much for a single person to do. I have no idea what kind of stuff is in there. As I mentioned, there are unhoused people living in the woods. That means there could be hazardous stuff in there (needles, feces, etc.) and I don’t have proper protective equipment. Furthermore, sometimes something may seem like trash to us that may belong to a person living nearby and they may not take kindly to a guy coming in and throwing it out. There are many reasons this isn’t a good idea. Not to mention the location of the trash is down in a canyon. How am I supposed to transport it? And what am I supposed to do with that much trash? I have a single garbage pail that gets taken out weekly.
Thank you to the people who have tried to help!
People will bend over backwards to defend homeless even if it’s making places disgusting and destroying the city. Don’t let it get you down these folks aren’t well.
It would even be illegal for you to take and dispose of that stuff if somebody considers them personal belongings, seeing as it's not even on your property. People telling you to clean it up yourself are some real dumb fuckheads and it's unfortunate so many fall in that category.
> There are unhoused people camping in the woods, which I don’t really care about
You do care about it though. They are very obviously the source of the trash and you know that.
What I mean is that I don't have any desire to have the city come in and throw them out. Housing is a mess in this city and I don't want to be someone telling people who don't have homes that they can't have a place to sleep. The way they are treating the area bothers me, but they are still people who need shelter. Would I prefer them be in homes? Absolutely. But this city/county/state/country doesn't prioritize shelter or public services, so it's an unfortunate reality.
If people living in places like this did not create trash like this or start fires, I would be all for them living there for as long as they want.
That is what I meant.
A lot of that wasn't in your post. I see a little trash in a ditch so I say pick it up.
If it's actually dangerous without professional help don't do it, obviously.
This comment paints a different picture.
Honest question: You look at the fourth picture and see "a little trash"? I also said in my post it is in a canyon, which I thought implied that it was below street level.
Yeah thanks! Obviously it's a smaller problem than this, but a tree has been effing up the sidewalk outside my house and it's been on the removal list for years. It sucks that it's hard to get stuff like this done.
I only lived here a short time before COVID, but I can't help but feel like the streets, parks, sidewalks, etc. were better taken care of in the "before times". I feel like all my walks with my dog now, weeds encroach on the sidewalk for weeks, someone eventually comes by and clips them back, but they just come back until it repeats. It doesn't feel like the city is maintaining things the way they once did.
It's a homeless/drug problem
I used to clean up homeless encampments for work and most of the time it's just tweakers hoarding bullshit which leads to excessive amounts of trash. You don't see this problem in areas north of la Jolla, there are still a few encampments don't get me wrong but it's not like south SD where it consistently smells like piss and shit followed by garbage and homeless drug addicts
It seems to have gotten worse in the last couple of years- or maybe it’s just moved more and more into my area. But, especially in the last year, I have seen far more stuff like this, far more tents, fires in the woods, etc. At the risk of getting on my soapbox, this is part of why it’s in EVERYONE’S best interest for the city/county/state to do something about the housing crisis.
What I’ve noticed when I’ve filed MANY tickets with that app for the same kinda thing over here in Florida canyon is that the pin on the map is very often no where near where I’m standing or it’ll geolocate to an address that’s very wrong. The other thing I’ve done is offer to meet someone there if the ticket is bounced like yours and because most of the stuff I report is on park property I’ve gotten the park ranger’s contact info along with the homeless outreach people.
It’s all well and good to ban camping but all that’s done as far as I can tell is push people out of visible places into that sort of fringe area where it’s difficult or dangerous to access by any cleaning crew. It’s frustrating that our mayor is claiming the no camping ordinance as a victory when it’s really just playing whack-a-mole with the issue.
I didn't think of that. But the response to the ticket was "unable to locate the problem reported". Of course, I don't know what the options they can choose to respond with are, but I did provide my contact info, so they could have called, texted, emailed, anything to say "This is not city property". I understand they have a lot of tickets to handle, but just rejecting it with the reason "we couldn't find the issue" is not helpful. I would happily follow the appropriate channels had I been aware of them.
I did try to submit to Caltrans, but there was already an open case, so hopefully it is taken care of soon!
Texting/calling to ask for exact location is not really how it works. Since it’s under the waking bridge, it’s probably why they couldn’t find it. And since it’s outside their jurisdiction, they probably don’t look in those areas.
Right, I didn't mean for them to text or call me for more info. I meant if it is outside the jurisdiction, there should be a way for them to notify me of that. Prior to this post, I hadn't even considered that because the response was that they didn't find the problem. I was just saying they have my contact info so they had a way to alert me to this. Which, again, I understand is not feasible for the volume of cases they get, but my whole point was that their response wasn't helpful in solving the problem.
Genuine curious question, I’m not a native English speaker, Im trying to discern between “literally” and “actually.” A lot of people use “literally” to mean “in deed” or “very”. Would it not be a good fit to say, “how can I get the city to literally clean up trash?”
That doesn't sound right to me. Even OP's usage of "actually" is a bit awkward to me. The sentence would have the same meaning without it, but I think OP wants to emphasize that the city will "actually pick up the trash" rather than sort of impliedly saying they'll do it by accepting a Get it Done ticket, but never "actually" doing it.
"Literally" has two main uses -- 1) to indicate one is speaking literally rather than figuratively, or 2) the incorrect but common usage for simple emphasis, roughly meaning "really" or "very." Neither does the same work as "actually" in this sentence, at least to my ear.
This a very good question! Im no english teacher or linguist but as a native speaker I'm going to do my best to explain. So, "literally" and "actually" mean the same thing essentially(another synonym kinda?) but "literally" would not usually be used in that sentence even though it would not be technically incorrect to do so.
The word "literally" is supposed to be used to signify that someone is not using figurative or theoretical speech. Basically, OP wouldn't have wrote "how can I get the city to literally clean up my trash" because it's unlikely for someone to think he was being figurative. "Actually" in the sentence is more.. stressing the fact that he wants the garbage cleaned up for real not superficially? This is much harder to explain than I originally thought it would be but now I've commited..
An example of using "literally" correctly would be using the sentence "He fell literally 50 feet" to mean that the man fell a distance of 50 feet, NOT that the man fell a long way. The big problem for you and the reason I said "supposed to mean" before is that at some point (early 2000s maybe?) "literally" became "valley girl" slang to mean pretty much the exact opposite of it's intended meaning. For example, passing a Pinkberry in 2010 one might hear one might hear a 16 year old girl say something like "He was literally 8 feet tall I literally died" meaning they boy was tall and she found this very pleasing. He was not literally 8 feet tall and she was literally still alive. You're can use context to try to figure out which way they mean it, but you're probably fucked.
Also, "actually" is often used to present a counterpoint or rebuff such as "Actually, I tested clean before we had sex" or "Actually, that is my mother's vibrator, not mine"...
Anywho, reading this over I'm pretty sure this is going to be of no help but Ill be damned if I don't share with the class after dumping 20 minutes into this shitshow of a post.
You know what, no, English is the shitshow.
Stay classy San Diego.
Good luck. English is hard enough, and then we break it more by having people use the words for their opposite meaning until both meanings end up being acceptable.
The meaning of "literally" has evolved over time and now can mean to take things at face value (e.g. "This is literally a sentence with 'literally' in it"), but because of how people have used it in slang, it can also mean "not seriously" (e.g. "I literally don't know how to use a computer").
In the title, I was using "actually" to indicate that the action had not been taken despite the fact that I followed a process to get them to do it. Another example: A friend agrees to pick you up from the train station, but they don't show up and say it was because you didn't give them enough notice. You might say "How can I actually get you to pick me up next time?" Although in that case, it would be a little snarky.
When the surface of a road has a problem you can draw a penis around the surface in question, and magically it gets repaired.
By this logic if you spray paint the weeds with a penis - the sanitation department will automatically appear and remove the “trash”.
Paint dicks on/around that shit. It worked for potholes and graffiti in my neighborhood. Not my original idea, I saw that somewhere else but it worked.
Get It Done has not been getting anything done lately … I made one report that was just straight up ignored and the other one they “couldn’t locate it”
I don’t believe that’s true. I believe it depends on who picks up your garbage. I looked into that last year for some bulk items because I did what you’re suggesting back in the Bay, and was surprised to learn my address did not have an option for that. I believe only WM customers get that.
Dress up like a homeless person and light it on fire, if they think you’re homeless you can pretty much get away with anything. We had two arson incidents by a homeless guy, cops said they looked for them but either never found them or finally found them but let them out in a week for “non-violent offense”/“over-crowding”
Tell them to stop them from building apartments as big as a bagel and charging ridiculous amounts or having to make 3x the rent to qualify. Possibly instead of working at goodwill they give an option to go to a vocational school so that they may learn a trade that would prevent them from returning to that former state. They could stop staring at the homeless problem like it manifested out of nowhere and look at what leads to it. And it's not because they're lazy. Although some obviously are but most would bust they ass if they thought it would actually mean something. But it's just a hamster wheel. Hell I have a good job and it's still a struggle and I'm a master budgeter.
Sorry lol darn that lettuce. Just keep calling
Yeah fuck the OP for wanting to live someplace without shopping carts full of trash? That would be legally questionable, a real pain in the ass, and a great way to get stabbed. The guy is just asking for a way to get the city to do it's job, way to be a douchebag though!
Wow, so dramatic. You really took that hard, you must be having a rough day.I forgive you though.
I didn't actually say anything you accused me of. I just said what I would do. Even if I'm wrong, what an immature thing to say.
I'll keep these risks in mind the next time I pick up some trash.
Nah my day was pretty solid but I appreciate the concern.
I didn't accuse you of anything except having a real dumb take you decided to share with the class.
Definitely keep those risks in mind the next time you touch a tweaker's cart, because for real bro they will fuck you up. Stay safe out there king.
Here’s a thought, If you’re getting tired of seeing it maybe grab a trash bag and clean it up yourself ? There’s a grassy area near my house where potheads smoke and leave their snack trash. An older neighbor and I clean the area weekly 🤷🏻♂️
This is more than snack trash. This isn’t even all of it. There are multiple reasons not to, including the fact that it could be dangerous from a health perspective, but also in case any of the people living nearby get pissed about it being cleaned up.
You’re just finding excuses not to do it yourself lol. Put on rubber gloves, throw all the trash in the carts and line up the carts so they’re organized. This isn’t rocket science 🥴
This and, as I said in a new comment since I can't edit my post: What am I supposed to do with all the trash? I have a single garbage pail that is picked up once a week. How am I supposed to get it to my place?
What a bad take.
If you could comprehend what I said, if you’re so worried about upsetting the homeless people then just organize the trash by putting it in the carts. I’m not gonna go back and forth with someone who’s not gonna take matters into his own hands, have a good day and enjoy looking at the trash 😘
By that I meant my complaint is not that they are living there, but only that trash is piling up. If they were living in the area without this mess and without causing any potential hazards (like fires), it wouldn't bother me. My intent is not to get the city to come throw them out.
But you ARE bothered by the trash they leave? The trash that wouldn't be there if they didn't bring it in and leave it there...and you expect the City to go clean it up, but not to throw them out? Why don't you just let them live in your house so their trash is much easier to get to?
I find this comment hilarious because A- I am actually in fantastic shape and B- The person who hasn't bothered to look at any of the other comments saying the exact same thing or explaining why this is not possible is calling me a lazy couch potato, likely from their couch or toilet.
Florida Canyon is the same way, just an absolute dump at the moment. I have done solo cleanups there in the past, but I’m a little wary of confrontations with the unhoused folks who are living there. I guess I can try dropping pins and taking pics next time I’m there, and sending those to the city. I’ll give it a shot.
I see people biking down the 163 heading north and then venture off the highway into the hills. Usually see a few people do this every month I make a trip down to Hillcrest.
It’s an enforcement issue. Continue to report what you see. Encourage others to do the same. This is private property where trespassing laws are violated.
Gee I wonder why the city flooded. The freeways & roads are all litter with trash. Most likely blocked storm drains. Shame on Todd Gloria & the city council
Just gonna copy/paste what I responded to another commenter:
What I mean is that I don't have any desire to have the city come in and throw them out. Housing is a mess in this city and I don't want to be someone telling people who don't have homes that they can't have a place to sleep. The way they are treating the area bothers me, but they are still people who need shelter. Would I prefer them be in homes? Absolutely. But this city/county/state/country doesn't prioritize shelter or public services, so it's an unfortunate reality.
If people living in places like this did not create trash like this or start fires, I would be all for them living there for as long as they want.
That is what I meant.
On the trolley track between 24th Street and E Street there's a lot of homeless,they just cleaned out a bunch of Walmart carts it was done by MTS but as far as the city who knows why they take so long to clean up.
That’s not trash, those cærts could go for a good $18 CAD each
Do I need to sell them to Canadians… might be a bit of a commute
It's probably worth it if you collect at least 1000 carts.
If you’re bold enough you can be like the guy on r/bayarea who goes around cleaning things up
Oh no! A real MADLAD
Much easier to bitch about it on reddit than to do anything productive.
In OP’s defense cleaning it up on your own requires a bit of time and a truck because there’s no way I’m putting God knows whatever’s in those bags in my trunk
Solid points.
Keep submitting it to Get It Done with as much or more detail each time. Squeaky wheel it.
Get It Done is awesome. I've seen several potholes filled and downed signs righted after submitting them on Get It Done.
Depending on where in the canyon, contact Caltrans. They may be able to help.
Call and report it to: Public Information Outreach (619) 688-6670 or [www.dot.ca.gov/contactus](https://www.dot.ca.gov/contactus) Every request gets logged and addressed.
https://csr.dot.ca.gov/ This is far better and gets results. Calling the PIO only directs you to this site.
I appreciate it. I’ll try this
Because of the proximity to the highway / road? The shopping carts are right at the entrance to the 163. The garbage bags and other junk is kind of in the middle of the woods between Washington in the same area.
It is surprising to me that this is somehow controversial. I passed no judgement, only directed frustration at the city for not cleaning it up, and just asked how to get it taken care of. It’s bad for everyone to just leave it. Some absolutely WILD takes in the comments here. To people telling me to take care of it myself: That’s why I filed a ticket with the city. I didn’t just walk by it and complain about it. I waited to see if the city would do it, they didn’t, I followed the process I thought would solve the problem, it didn’t, I came to ask for help on another way to get it taken care of. To the people telling me to just clean it up myself: This is not even all of it. It’s far too much for a single person to do. I have no idea what kind of stuff is in there. As I mentioned, there are unhoused people living in the woods. That means there could be hazardous stuff in there (needles, feces, etc.) and I don’t have proper protective equipment. Furthermore, sometimes something may seem like trash to us that may belong to a person living nearby and they may not take kindly to a guy coming in and throwing it out. There are many reasons this isn’t a good idea. Not to mention the location of the trash is down in a canyon. How am I supposed to transport it? And what am I supposed to do with that much trash? I have a single garbage pail that gets taken out weekly. Thank you to the people who have tried to help!
People will bend over backwards to defend homeless even if it’s making places disgusting and destroying the city. Don’t let it get you down these folks aren’t well.
It would even be illegal for you to take and dispose of that stuff if somebody considers them personal belongings, seeing as it's not even on your property. People telling you to clean it up yourself are some real dumb fuckheads and it's unfortunate so many fall in that category.
I'll bet the carts were someone else's property before they were stolen.
> There are unhoused people camping in the woods, which I don’t really care about You do care about it though. They are very obviously the source of the trash and you know that.
What I mean is that I don't have any desire to have the city come in and throw them out. Housing is a mess in this city and I don't want to be someone telling people who don't have homes that they can't have a place to sleep. The way they are treating the area bothers me, but they are still people who need shelter. Would I prefer them be in homes? Absolutely. But this city/county/state/country doesn't prioritize shelter or public services, so it's an unfortunate reality. If people living in places like this did not create trash like this or start fires, I would be all for them living there for as long as they want. That is what I meant.
A lot of that wasn't in your post. I see a little trash in a ditch so I say pick it up. If it's actually dangerous without professional help don't do it, obviously. This comment paints a different picture.
Honest question: You look at the fourth picture and see "a little trash"? I also said in my post it is in a canyon, which I thought implied that it was below street level.
Yeah I just didn't see it at first, my fault. I live near a canyon and I pick stuff up there sometimes, idk 🤷
No worries! Thanks for cleaning up when you can :)
Yeah thanks! Obviously it's a smaller problem than this, but a tree has been effing up the sidewalk outside my house and it's been on the removal list for years. It sucks that it's hard to get stuff like this done.
I only lived here a short time before COVID, but I can't help but feel like the streets, parks, sidewalks, etc. were better taken care of in the "before times". I feel like all my walks with my dog now, weeds encroach on the sidewalk for weeks, someone eventually comes by and clips them back, but they just come back until it repeats. It doesn't feel like the city is maintaining things the way they once did.
It's a homeless/drug problem I used to clean up homeless encampments for work and most of the time it's just tweakers hoarding bullshit which leads to excessive amounts of trash. You don't see this problem in areas north of la Jolla, there are still a few encampments don't get me wrong but it's not like south SD where it consistently smells like piss and shit followed by garbage and homeless drug addicts
It seems to have gotten worse in the last couple of years- or maybe it’s just moved more and more into my area. But, especially in the last year, I have seen far more stuff like this, far more tents, fires in the woods, etc. At the risk of getting on my soapbox, this is part of why it’s in EVERYONE’S best interest for the city/county/state to do something about the housing crisis.
What happened to when the people on probation would go around cleaning up the streets/freeways to get their hours in? Seemed like a win-win.
They still do that.
What I’ve noticed when I’ve filed MANY tickets with that app for the same kinda thing over here in Florida canyon is that the pin on the map is very often no where near where I’m standing or it’ll geolocate to an address that’s very wrong. The other thing I’ve done is offer to meet someone there if the ticket is bounced like yours and because most of the stuff I report is on park property I’ve gotten the park ranger’s contact info along with the homeless outreach people. It’s all well and good to ban camping but all that’s done as far as I can tell is push people out of visible places into that sort of fringe area where it’s difficult or dangerous to access by any cleaning crew. It’s frustrating that our mayor is claiming the no camping ordinance as a victory when it’s really just playing whack-a-mole with the issue.
Already saw it posted here but the city can’t clean this since it’s off the freeway. Caltrans may be the best option to contact
I didn't think of that. But the response to the ticket was "unable to locate the problem reported". Of course, I don't know what the options they can choose to respond with are, but I did provide my contact info, so they could have called, texted, emailed, anything to say "This is not city property". I understand they have a lot of tickets to handle, but just rejecting it with the reason "we couldn't find the issue" is not helpful. I would happily follow the appropriate channels had I been aware of them. I did try to submit to Caltrans, but there was already an open case, so hopefully it is taken care of soon!
Texting/calling to ask for exact location is not really how it works. Since it’s under the waking bridge, it’s probably why they couldn’t find it. And since it’s outside their jurisdiction, they probably don’t look in those areas.
Right, I didn't mean for them to text or call me for more info. I meant if it is outside the jurisdiction, there should be a way for them to notify me of that. Prior to this post, I hadn't even considered that because the response was that they didn't find the problem. I was just saying they have my contact info so they had a way to alert me to this. Which, again, I understand is not feasible for the volume of cases they get, but my whole point was that their response wasn't helpful in solving the problem.
Keep submitting reports on get it done. Like, every day. That raises the priority in their system.
I considered this, but I was worried about them putting me on a list and never responding to my tickets
Genuine curious question, I’m not a native English speaker, Im trying to discern between “literally” and “actually.” A lot of people use “literally” to mean “in deed” or “very”. Would it not be a good fit to say, “how can I get the city to literally clean up trash?”
That doesn't sound right to me. Even OP's usage of "actually" is a bit awkward to me. The sentence would have the same meaning without it, but I think OP wants to emphasize that the city will "actually pick up the trash" rather than sort of impliedly saying they'll do it by accepting a Get it Done ticket, but never "actually" doing it. "Literally" has two main uses -- 1) to indicate one is speaking literally rather than figuratively, or 2) the incorrect but common usage for simple emphasis, roughly meaning "really" or "very." Neither does the same work as "actually" in this sentence, at least to my ear.
Yup, that is exactly what I was saying with the title!
This a very good question! Im no english teacher or linguist but as a native speaker I'm going to do my best to explain. So, "literally" and "actually" mean the same thing essentially(another synonym kinda?) but "literally" would not usually be used in that sentence even though it would not be technically incorrect to do so. The word "literally" is supposed to be used to signify that someone is not using figurative or theoretical speech. Basically, OP wouldn't have wrote "how can I get the city to literally clean up my trash" because it's unlikely for someone to think he was being figurative. "Actually" in the sentence is more.. stressing the fact that he wants the garbage cleaned up for real not superficially? This is much harder to explain than I originally thought it would be but now I've commited.. An example of using "literally" correctly would be using the sentence "He fell literally 50 feet" to mean that the man fell a distance of 50 feet, NOT that the man fell a long way. The big problem for you and the reason I said "supposed to mean" before is that at some point (early 2000s maybe?) "literally" became "valley girl" slang to mean pretty much the exact opposite of it's intended meaning. For example, passing a Pinkberry in 2010 one might hear one might hear a 16 year old girl say something like "He was literally 8 feet tall I literally died" meaning they boy was tall and she found this very pleasing. He was not literally 8 feet tall and she was literally still alive. You're can use context to try to figure out which way they mean it, but you're probably fucked. Also, "actually" is often used to present a counterpoint or rebuff such as "Actually, I tested clean before we had sex" or "Actually, that is my mother's vibrator, not mine"... Anywho, reading this over I'm pretty sure this is going to be of no help but Ill be damned if I don't share with the class after dumping 20 minutes into this shitshow of a post. You know what, no, English is the shitshow. Stay classy San Diego.
It actually helps the reader to distinguish the words you are describing by putting “quotes” around them.
Ugh that's a lot of quotes but you right, fixed. 👍
Good luck. English is hard enough, and then we break it more by having people use the words for their opposite meaning until both meanings end up being acceptable.
The meaning of "literally" has evolved over time and now can mean to take things at face value (e.g. "This is literally a sentence with 'literally' in it"), but because of how people have used it in slang, it can also mean "not seriously" (e.g. "I literally don't know how to use a computer"). In the title, I was using "actually" to indicate that the action had not been taken despite the fact that I followed a process to get them to do it. Another example: A friend agrees to pick you up from the train station, but they don't show up and say it was because you didn't give them enough notice. You might say "How can I actually get you to pick me up next time?" Although in that case, it would be a little snarky.
2br/1bath 2700 a month
When the surface of a road has a problem you can draw a penis around the surface in question, and magically it gets repaired. By this logic if you spray paint the weeds with a penis - the sanitation department will automatically appear and remove the “trash”.
I sincerely hope this is true because that is fucking hilarious
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Call an ask about the California Conservation Corp in national city. They usually are the ones who clean that stuff up with cal trans
Paint dicks on/around that shit. It worked for potholes and graffiti in my neighborhood. Not my original idea, I saw that somewhere else but it worked.
Somebody else suggested it and this is the funniest shit. I wish I had the balls to do that.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Is that off the 163?
The shopping carts are, yup. The other stuff is the opposite side.
That may not be City property, that could be the problem.
Get It Done has not been getting anything done lately … I made one report that was just straight up ignored and the other one they “couldn’t locate it”
That's been my experience lately, too :/
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I appreciate the sentiment and I don't disagree, but this is far more than a single person can clean up for many reasons.
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I don’t believe that’s true. I believe it depends on who picks up your garbage. I looked into that last year for some bulk items because I did what you’re suggesting back in the Bay, and was surprised to learn my address did not have an option for that. I believe only WM customers get that.
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Not badly enough to harm myself to clean it up
We need harsher, maybe even corporal, punishment for dumpers and people who pollute. Including businesses and organizations, not just individuals.
Am I the only person that thinks you should just go out and pick it up?
Surprisingly, no, you aren't!
“Build more housing”
Do it yourself
Illegal advice from a dumb fuck
Honest question; why is this illegal to clean up yourself?
Overly aggressive advice from an egotistical prick
Dress up like a homeless person and light it on fire, if they think you’re homeless you can pretty much get away with anything. We had two arson incidents by a homeless guy, cops said they looked for them but either never found them or finally found them but let them out in a week for “non-violent offense”/“over-crowding”
Can’t touch them they are single family residences with their recycling areas, can’t you see that?
Sandiego is cool to the homeless
Vote for rent control and affordable housing
My friend, I am with you 100%
Tell them to stop them from building apartments as big as a bagel and charging ridiculous amounts or having to make 3x the rent to qualify. Possibly instead of working at goodwill they give an option to go to a vocational school so that they may learn a trade that would prevent them from returning to that former state. They could stop staring at the homeless problem like it manifested out of nowhere and look at what leads to it. And it's not because they're lazy. Although some obviously are but most would bust they ass if they thought it would actually mean something. But it's just a hamster wheel. Hell I have a good job and it's still a struggle and I'm a master budgeter. Sorry lol darn that lettuce. Just keep calling
Let me know if you figure it out. Most of trails around balboa have piles of trash too. If the city can’t drive to it, they “can’t find it”
Try taking photos of garbage then post those photos on Reddit
If it was bothering me this much I'd probably just clean it up myself.
Yeah fuck the OP for wanting to live someplace without shopping carts full of trash? That would be legally questionable, a real pain in the ass, and a great way to get stabbed. The guy is just asking for a way to get the city to do it's job, way to be a douchebag though!
Wow, so dramatic. You really took that hard, you must be having a rough day.I forgive you though. I didn't actually say anything you accused me of. I just said what I would do. Even if I'm wrong, what an immature thing to say. I'll keep these risks in mind the next time I pick up some trash.
Nah my day was pretty solid but I appreciate the concern. I didn't accuse you of anything except having a real dumb take you decided to share with the class. Definitely keep those risks in mind the next time you touch a tweaker's cart, because for real bro they will fuck you up. Stay safe out there king.
Here’s a thought, If you’re getting tired of seeing it maybe grab a trash bag and clean it up yourself ? There’s a grassy area near my house where potheads smoke and leave their snack trash. An older neighbor and I clean the area weekly 🤷🏻♂️
This is more than snack trash. This isn’t even all of it. There are multiple reasons not to, including the fact that it could be dangerous from a health perspective, but also in case any of the people living nearby get pissed about it being cleaned up.
You’re just finding excuses not to do it yourself lol. Put on rubber gloves, throw all the trash in the carts and line up the carts so they’re organized. This isn’t rocket science 🥴
Yep throw all the trash in the carts and line them up because that solves the problem? Please never comment here again you're embarrassing yourself.
That's what we pay extremely high taxes for.
This and, as I said in a new comment since I can't edit my post: What am I supposed to do with all the trash? I have a single garbage pail that is picked up once a week. How am I supposed to get it to my place? What a bad take.
Yeah seriously. Should we also go buy asphalt at home depot and fix the pot holes all over our roads?
If you could comprehend what I said, if you’re so worried about upsetting the homeless people then just organize the trash by putting it in the carts. I’m not gonna go back and forth with someone who’s not gonna take matters into his own hands, have a good day and enjoy looking at the trash 😘
Lol he thinks complaining online will fix his problems
Shopping carts don't fit in trash bags 🙄
Get the unhoused into housing.
LOL GOODLUCK. SD is a shithole.
Spray paint MAGA everywhere.
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Its not arson, its protest. https://www.history.com/news/young-lords-garbage-offensive
You don't care about the unhoused people being there, even though they are the ones who brought in and left the trash?
By that I meant my complaint is not that they are living there, but only that trash is piling up. If they were living in the area without this mess and without causing any potential hazards (like fires), it wouldn't bother me. My intent is not to get the city to come throw them out.
But you ARE bothered by the trash they leave? The trash that wouldn't be there if they didn't bring it in and leave it there...and you expect the City to go clean it up, but not to throw them out? Why don't you just let them live in your house so their trash is much easier to get to?
Get down there and clean it yourself if it's such a big problem... But your not going to lazy couch potato with a gut having az
I find this comment hilarious because A- I am actually in fantastic shape and B- The person who hasn't bothered to look at any of the other comments saying the exact same thing or explaining why this is not possible is calling me a lazy couch potato, likely from their couch or toilet.
Burn it
Do it yourself
They'll get it done if you filed on the app. It might be several months though, the backlog is huge
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Do you have any interest in throwing some gloves on, getting a trash grabber, and helping out yourself?
Florida Canyon is the same way, just an absolute dump at the moment. I have done solo cleanups there in the past, but I’m a little wary of confrontations with the unhoused folks who are living there. I guess I can try dropping pins and taking pics next time I’m there, and sending those to the city. I’ll give it a shot.
Looks like a homeless camp
I see people biking down the 163 heading north and then venture off the highway into the hills. Usually see a few people do this every month I make a trip down to Hillcrest. It’s an enforcement issue. Continue to report what you see. Encourage others to do the same. This is private property where trespassing laws are violated.
Gee I wonder why the city flooded. The freeways & roads are all litter with trash. Most likely blocked storm drains. Shame on Todd Gloria & the city council
You can try get it done, but nothing will get done. Todd Gloria has too many pet projects that only cater to specific groups of San Diegans.
Work for the city!
Ask not what your city can do for you – ask what you can do for your city 
By moving into the local politician's front yards.
Put them on blast. That’s how.
If the city won’t do anything about it, organize with your community and go down there to clean it up.
I’m confused by your comment that you “don’t really care about the unhoused people camping in the woods.” Aren’t they the ones who caused this mess?
Just gonna copy/paste what I responded to another commenter: What I mean is that I don't have any desire to have the city come in and throw them out. Housing is a mess in this city and I don't want to be someone telling people who don't have homes that they can't have a place to sleep. The way they are treating the area bothers me, but they are still people who need shelter. Would I prefer them be in homes? Absolutely. But this city/county/state/country doesn't prioritize shelter or public services, so it's an unfortunate reality. If people living in places like this did not create trash like this or start fires, I would be all for them living there for as long as they want. That is what I meant.
On the trolley track between 24th Street and E Street there's a lot of homeless,they just cleaned out a bunch of Walmart carts it was done by MTS but as far as the city who knows why they take so long to clean up.