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From 'Beach Bummers' to 'Poo-cifica,' California Coast Struggles with High Levels of Sewage After Winter Storms

A new report shows how the winter's storms caused sewage overflows that have polluted the state's beaches, with five of its dirtiest beaches located in San Mateo County.

Pile of Poop Prominently Placed In Political Pamphlet Now Arriving In SF Mailboxes

The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it’s largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department

Poop Complaints Are Down 30% In the Tenderloin!

In the name of fecal data journalism and clicks, the Chronicle is back on the poop beat this week — and there's some good news for the chronically poopy streets of the Tenderloin!

Sup. Haney’s Bid to Break Up Public Works Likely Headed for November Ballot

A new department would have one job — keeping our haggard sidewalks clean — under Supervisor Matt Haney’s proposal to break up the scandal-plagued Department of Public Works.

Man Photographed Pooping In an Aisle at the Marina Safeway

The photo has gone viral on Twitter and sparked a whole lot of smug retorts from Republicans about San Francisco going to hell because of its progressive politics.

Three ‘Pit Stop’ Porta-Potties to Remain Open 24 Hours As Program Gets Renewed

The potty will keep going all night long at three Pit Stops citywide, but Sup. Matt Haney yearns for all of them to be open through the wee hours.

BART Will Extend Its Poop-Preventing Elevator Patrol To Two More Downtown SF Stations

The BART system would prefer you call them “elevator attendants,” and they’ll soon expand from just Civic Center and Powell Street to Montgomery Street and the Embarcadero Station as well.

A Brief History Of Poop On The Streets Of San Francisco

Local media, along with the general public, have made a fair amount of repeated fuss in recent years over the presence of human waste on our city's streets, which despite some not insignificant cleanup efforts by the city continues to be a mess not easily wiped away.

Alleged BART Pooper Busted, But Not For Pooping On BART

According to a Facebook fan who sent me this photo, the person who was caught using @SFBART as a public 🚽 has struck again. pic.twitter.com/jQgYJvCU5K— Stanley Roberts (@SRobertsKRON4) October 20, 2017

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Incredibly Satisfying Video Follows BART's 'Brightening Crew' As They Power-Wash Station Stairs

Aww, some nice PR for BART for a change. BART just posted this video, apparently produced by their in-house communications team, highlighting the work of the guys who power-wash all the grime (and

Parents Peeved At Daylong Delay To Clean Poopy SF Playground

Human feces on San Francisco streets are nothing new — heck, there's even a couple maps out there of the most common places for the stuff, all of which surface at regular intervals at

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Photo Du Jour: This Art Is Crap

A months-old feces smear — or should we call it a fresco? — on a block of Russian Hill is now a work of public art thanks to a small museum-style label, likely placed there

Petition Demands More Public Toilets For Homeless In The Tenderloin

San Francisco is home to roughly 7,000 homeless residents, and, just like the rest of us, those individuals need to use the restroom. Instead of griping about this fact and blaming the

Interactive Map: Syringes And Poop Have Spiked On SF Streets, Says Annual City Report

It's that time of year again! 2003's Prop C mandated that the beautiful City of San Francisco issue an annual report on the state of our dear sweet streets and sidewalks, and here

Sick Of Wasting Your Dog's Poo, SF Launches Program To Compost It

For dog owners across the city, it's a familiar routine: Stand around while your canine poops, try not to stare lest someone walk by and think you're a weirdo, lean over with a

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Etiquette Week: How To Walk A Dog

It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise

Stockton Man Defecates On Another Man's Yard, Brutal Double Stabbing Follows

In a bizarre story coming out of our neighbor to the east, it appears that a Stockton man defecated in another man's yard this past Sunday, and this led to a foot chase,

New BART Escalator Status Website Lets You Confirm In Advance That Escalator At Your Stop is Broken

BART admits total defeat pic.twitter.com/1BHwYk0ynR— Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) November 29, 2015 The seemingly perennially broken (or breaking) system of BART escalators in some way is the perfect metaphor for San

Report Cites Fewer Needles On Sidwalks, But Complaints About Them Rise Anyway

A report evaluating 184 routes through San Francisco between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 shared with the Examiner shows more streets free from debris and detritus "which pose the greatest risk

SF Hiring 'Potty-Sitters' To Monitor Public Toilets At $100,000 Per Toilet

San Francisco's public restroom wrongdoers are being put on notice by a group of "potty-sitters," as the Chronicle calls these new hires who are being paid up to $16 an hour to make

San Francisco's Sh** Still Stinks, But Is This Summer The Worst Ever?

Let's take it as a given that the status quo of San Francisco streets is crap. But is 2015 the worst "summer of muck" on record? Certainly Debra Saunders thought so when she

Dirty Streets Require Potable Water For City Cleaning, Are Still So So Gross

San Francisco, California, the City by the Bay where thousands of gallons of drinking water are poured onto the streets and you totally can't tell. “We have to use potable water for steam

SF Streets Are Extra Poopy Thanks To Drought?

Remember how last year it seemed like the local media couldn't stop talking about poop? Even though the discussion of feces gumming up our BART escalators dates back a couple of years, the

BART May Finally Reopen Public Restrooms Shut Since 9/11

Fourteen years on, the BART board is mulling a proposal to remodel and reopen 10 underground BART station restrooms, all of which have remained closed to the public since the week of September

Check Out This Shirtless Guy Who Allegedly Pooped And Peed On SFPD Cruiser

A Fisherman's Wharf denizen recently took a strong anti-authority position against the San Francisco Police Department — a position, one can only assume, that included a significant amount of squatting. As in, to poo.