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This cartoon has four panels. All the panels show a gritty commercial doorway – the kind that’s recessed a few feet into the building – on a city sidewalk. There’s litter and graffiti here.

There are two characters in the comic strip. The first character is a homeless man sleeping in the doorway, wearing a zip-up sweatshirt over a t-shirt and a dull red knit cap, and with a full beard. The other character is a muscular-looking cop dressed in a police uniform and carrying a baton. In defiance of tradition, he is cleanshaven. I’ll call these two characters KNITCAP and COP.

PANEL 1

Knitcap, covered by a brown blanket and with his head pillowed on some rolled-up clothes, is lying in a doorway, apparently asleep. The cop is using his baton to poke knitcap in the side. The cop has a somewhat sadistic grin.

COP: Hey, you! Get up! We’ve outlawed sleeping in public! You’re not allowed anymore!

PANEL 2

Knitcap is sitting up, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with one hand. He speaks calmly. The cop watches, smirking, arms akimbo.

KNITCAP: In that case, I guess I’ll sleep in a hotel tonight.

PANEL 3

A close-up of Knitcap. He’s stroking his chin with a hand, as if thinking through his options.

KNITCAP: Or should I sleep in my townhouse instead? Or my Hamptons place? I’ll call my butler and ask what he thinks!

PANEL 4

Knitcap, grinning, is now holding a hand next to his face, thumb and pinky finger extended, pretending it’s a phone as he talks. The cop is glaring and slapping his baton against his palm.

KNITCAP: Smithers? Smithers old boy! My super fun street sleeping holiday is done. Which of my mansions shall I sleep in tonight.

COP (thought): Next step: Outlaw sarcasm.

Source.

    • @Cryophilia
      14•3 months ago

      You had all the resources you needed at your disposal and no opposition

      Bullshit, you NIMBY fuckers have been opposing us for your entire lives. If we had no opposition there would be shelters and safe injection sites in fucking Noe Valley and the outer Richmond, and apartments all over the place.

      Yeah we have a Dem supermajority but the Board of Supervisors has a death grip on SF politics and they’re all virtue signaling fucks who are happy to shovel money into their corrupt non-profit CEO friends but never actually fix the problem. All they care about is property values going up at any cost.

      YOU PEOPLE are standing in the way of the problem. The ONE good idea you have is financial oversight, other than that you’d just make shit worse.

    • bufalo1973English
      5•3 months ago

      Maybe you could find if all those homeless are from California or from other state. It could be a surprise that other states took their homeless and gave them a ticket to San Francisco.