And there it is. The unofficial motto of modern San Francisco entitlement.
Look, this isn't just a story about one guy with a bad fauxhawk and worse manners. It's a story about what happens when a city systematically abandons enforcement of basic quality-of-life standards. San Francisco has leash laws, has pooper-scooper ordinances, has fines on the books — and none of it matters because nobody enforces any of it. The city spends roughly $100 million a year on street cleaning and still can't keep sidewalks navigable. At some point you have to ask: are we spending money on solutions, or are we just funding a bureaucracy that manages decline?
When you signal to residents for years that rules are optional — that everything from shoplifting to public defecation exists in a soft enforcement zone — you get a culture where a grown man feels perfectly comfortable telling a stranger to pound sand while his dog fouls a public walkway in broad daylight. This isn't a dog problem. It's an accountability vacuum.
As one local put it: "I hope that asshole gets a good dose of dogshit karma." Same. But karma is a lousy substitute for governance.
The resident who shared this story predicted he'd get lectured about being more tolerant. We'll skip that part. You shouldn't need to be "more liberal" to expect a clean sidewalk in front of your own home. You shouldn't need to carry cardboard around to clean up after strangers. And a city that collects some of the highest taxes in the nation shouldn't be outsourcing basic civic standards to the honor system.
Enforce the laws already on the books, or stop pretending they exist. San Francisco deserves better than performative governance and actual dog shit.

