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A little something to go with your onion bagel and soy latte this morning: SFAppeal and Matier and Ross both have word that someone, well, took a massive crap at Gavin and Jennifer Newsom's new abode. Ahem. Oh dear. According to M&R, "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, finally moved into their new home in the upper Haight over the weekend - only to have someone promptly defecate and urinate on their doorstep." Which? Is not that unusual for the Haight-Ashbury / Ashbury Heights neighborhood; in fact, it's where your editor learned the distinct odorous difference between animal and human fecal matter. Eve Batey at SFAppeal, however, went one step further, talking to a friend of a friend of the Newsoms, who explained to her, "'I was told they broke in and shit on the couches and it was a big secret.'" The shitting suspect, sadly, was never caught. So, yeah, there you have it. [Inset poop-related zinger here]
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Newsom moved to the Upper HAIGHT? Wow. I'm surprised.
I'm buying futures in bran muffins. I see this to be part of an enjoyable daily ritual until this utter waste of humanity leaves SF alone and moves to BFE. Can we set up a webcam?
Glad he's done such a great job at fixing SF that he had to descend from the Newsom/Getty Tower and step into what he couldn't do a damn thing about. I would buy the Gavster a FastPass but everyone knows he doesn't even know how to board a bus.
Just move to Hollywood already, I hear there are openings for another empty headed idiot
Yeah, that seems seriously weird. He so easily fits in in the Marina and Russian Hill, but the Haight? Even the gentrified Haight?
Let's hope we see quite a bit more of this. Say, daily.
Of course, the real issue is that he's going to be completely insulated from the neighborhood. He'll get driven down to work, driven back home, and that'll be that. It's not like we're going to run into him waiting at the Pork Store on weekends (besides... he seems like more the type to be in line at Zazie) or actually trying to get a prescription filled anywhere in the neighborhood.
I love Zazie.
Ashbury Heights is NOT the Haight. The riff-raff don't make it up the hill.
You might as well say that Cole Valley isn't the Haight. People just keep carving new, gentrified chunks out of it. That doesn't mean it still isn't the Haight though.
Cole Valley isn't the Haight, either. I lived there for two years and never got asked for money once, ergo, not the Haight.
Just look at the people who live in Cole Valley and Ashbury Heights! It's hard to imagine any of them deigning to set one of their $300 shoe-shod feet on Haight Street.
I agree, I thought his home location was really bizarre. And the house itself is way less than impressive.
As someone who is forced to live down the street from these two miscreants and their impending whelp, all I can say is GOOD! Maybe NOW someone will do something about the turd laden sidewalks I've been forced to endure, day in, day out, time without end. God knows, Dreamy Mirkarimi can't be bothered to care about anything outside Alamo Square and the Neighborhood Formerly Known as the Western Addition to round up the homeless youth and their dogs who're responsible for turning my district into Hygiene World...
Your headlines are always good, but your choice of images is always GREAT.
This is why SFist is a civic treasure.
Sounds like someone left their own "Care Not Cash" package.
Welcome to my 'hood, Gav. Maybe now it'll get some attention.
Couldn't have been one of the scrotes, though. They wouldn't walk up that hill.
EXACTLY.
Now perhaps the mayor will focus more on clean streets, and accountability for same.
Can't wait for Newsom to insist on a special poop tax to clean up street poop.
Well, pooh on those who say no one gives a shit.
Too soon?
Too easy?
Welcome to the neighborhood.
Now, would you please issue some bum-tags now so that we may go bum-hunting?
While I have no love for this attention-whore of a mayor we have here in SF, I can sympathize with waking up to find someone has used your front porch as a shitter.
After the 4th time, you too will find yourself contemplate setting up a bum.. err.. "deer" blind.
-mm
That's vile.
THis happens everyday here at my business near Folsom St , after I make the poor illegal I hired for $5.00 a hr clean it up, Thank god for the Santuary City status , then I would have clean it up....
Advice Gav, don't worry maybe someone from the DA's WORK CLEAR YOUR RECORD program will come over and clean your streets of gold, and rob your casa while they are at it. Just bought a nice bag of weed in your neighborhood last week as well, Keep up the good work !!!!
"I was told they broke in and shit on the couches and it was a big secret."
That's oddly reminiscent of the City Hall leaks on Gavin's Ruby Rippey Tourk affair.
From this day forward, the Newsom Compound shall be known as and referred to as:
DEFECATION STATION
thanks!
As the victim in this incident, surely Newsom deserves to be fined by the City.
So that's where our weekly pile of giant turds and pool of piss have gone!! We wee residents of the real Upper Haight are relieved to share our neighborhood's pees and poohs with Gavvy Gav.
I was just told by a woman who owns a business on Haight street that the last two weekends they've been streetcleaning Haight Street and the cops are rousting the scrotes sleeping in doorways in the morning. WTF? I've lived in this neighborhood for 22 years and I've NEVER seen either of those events EVER.
See, us taxpaying citizens don't mean shit, but we need to be concerned with the mayor and his wife and their delicate sensabilities. Soon they'll be strewing fucking rose petals down Masonic.
> Soon they'll be strewing fucking rose petals down Masonic.
In direct opposition to the new composting laws!
THOSE BASTARDS!
This story stinks for the simple reason that I pass this address daily, and the thugs-for-pay who are stationed outside the door in the forbidding Crown Victoria where they can see everything are not going to let anybody climb the stairs to the front door, so I doubt the part about breaking into the house.