SF Gardener's Furious Facebook Rant Blasts Park Goers For Trashing Dolores Park On Pride Weekend
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/KCBS) -- A furious expletive-laden Facebook rant posted by a gardener with San Francisco's Recreation and Parks over the trashing of Dolores Park on Pride weekend has pricked a lot of ears.
SFist posted a transcript of Lujan's rant which implores people to "give a f### or two" and not use the park like a "f### dumpster."
"I have already picked up a statistically significant number of drug baggies and condom. Usually found near a pile of vomit. Do you know some folks actually urinated on one of our custodians while she was trying to clean the restroom?"
Mark Lujan's post was taken down, but his video can still be seen and shows the heaps and piles of trash left behind by parkgoers.
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Lujan also expressed his frustration with what he calls the failure of the city's "Love Dolores" campaign, an outreach program to get park visitors to pick up their garbage.
He called the campaign "useless."
"If I put a trash can every 20 paces on the entire 20 ACRES of this park I'd still be picking up f###ing trash off the ground every weekend. And here's the thing... I AM NOT A F###ING TRASH MAN... I'm a gardener."
According to the SF Chronicle, a crew of over 25 people picked up trash at the park on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
But by Sunday night the park once again looked like the aftermath of a fraternity party.
In an email, SF Rec and Parks spokesperson Joey Kahn said it's hard to get adults to clean up after themselves.
"Monday alone, it took 13 Rec & Park employees a collective 86.5 hours to clean up Dolores Park. These are taxpayer dollars being spent on cleanup and resources that are being diverted away from other parks."
