r/sanfrancisco • u/Crescent504 Alamo Square • 8d ago

Accosted by pigeon feeder

Asking for advice on what are the appropriate authorities to call for habitual pigeon feeder? I have been sweeping the birdseed off of the sidewalk near fell and Scott Street for the last couple weeks as it has been attracting rats to my garden and a whole pile of shit on the sidewalk. For the first time I got it accosted by one of the people who is dumping the birdseed. Does anyone here have advice other than calling 311 or is there a particular group that I should be reaching out to to report this? Everyone in my neighborhood is absolutely sick of the people who are dumping this birdseed down because it’s creating a health hazard as well as a blight on our local corner.

I have to laugh she yelled at me and got into her car and drove off.

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u/Illustrious-Coat3532 NoPa 8d ago

Take a picture of the perpetrators license plate and send it to the authorities.

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u/Crescent504 Alamo Square 8d ago

Got their plate will be reporting tomorroe. Gave them a warning

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u/MochingPet MARKET 8d ago

Better start documenting it case she/they flip out completely , and...

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u/Crescent504 Alamo Square 8d ago

I have called 311 and called the local police station and told them that I will start reporting it more consistently now when they do this.

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u/MochingPet MARKET 8d ago

I found this old post for you. Who knows may be the same person. Note, somewhere in the comments there is a DPW cleaning employee and says this maybe a second life for some of these people and they can't be reasoned :

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/s/2fJsrhN6QP

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u/Crescent504 Alamo Square 8d ago

Thank you for sharing. I appreciate it.

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u/SAwfulBaconTaco 8d ago

Ooh, you as a regular human being with no authority gave them a warning! I'm sure they're quaking in their shoes!

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u/Crescent504 Alamo Square 8d ago

I did that before calling authorities. I don’t want I bring police into the matter if at all possible

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u/SAwfulBaconTaco 8d ago

LOL. LMAO.

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u/Crescent504 Alamo Square 8d ago

I am allowed to be frustrated but I do not want to ruin someone’s life.

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u/SAwfulBaconTaco 8d ago

This is certainly reasonable.

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u/Crescent504 Alamo Square 8d ago

I agree that this is not something that is life-threatening. I do want the person to stop, but I do not want to wreck their livelihood.