SFist: Serial port-o-potty arsonist on the loose

zstone

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:31:31 -0800

You might say I was being glib.

tshell

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:32:56 -0800

Response to zstone. Sure isn't harmless to the San Francisco Porta Potty Companies that pay $600-$1500 for those porta pots.

jnice

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:34:45 -0800

Portasan sounds so much classier. like it's Japanese.

montrealnow

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:40:45 -0800

Right. A portasan, which is made from finite resources in the first place, costs some entity $120, plus the cost of SFFD response which undoubtedly is several times the cost of the portasan, plus labor cost cleaning up the mess, toxic smoke in somebody's neighborhood, spilled chemicals, spilled human waste. But it's all worth it because an SFist correspondent is tickled by vandalism. If goddam Monsanto or Halliburton shat on an SF neighborhood like this, you'd scream about the mindless unforgiveable rape of the planet.

periqueblend

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:34:08 -0800

And I'm sure the chemicals used to neutralize our excrement and the like probably shouldn't be draining into the bay...

ceelee

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:08:45 -0800

Not necessarily harmless. The same arsonist hit the port-o-john in front of my place at Hyde & Filbert over Thanksgiving weekend with a Molotov cocktail. The only real damage is the blue plastic goo that is now melted onto the sidewalk and the smoke damage from where the fire charred the side of the building. However, firemen told us that we were lucky that the bottom floor of the building was brick, which prevented the whole building from catching fire.

zstone

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:21:21 -0800

Harmless until the smell of burning shit hits your schnoz.