I'm Being Drugged to Death
If anyone has a place to stay in San Francisco where I can sleep and not be drugged please message me. I'm being drugged to death and I'm scared I'll have to commit a crime so I can go to prison where I'll be safe from being gassed.
I'm staying in a homeless shelter where I'm being drugged every night continuously. I'm gassed with marijuana and other aerosolizable drugs and the shelter staff does nothing and some of them are complicit.
This is at Next Door Shelter, 1001 Polk Street.
I'm scared I'm going to die here or lose my mind.
If someone has a safe place to stay please message me. I don't have a job, but I can find one. I'll clean the apartment. I'll cook. I'll walk your dog or babysit. I just need a safe place to live where I'm not being drugged.
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 40.4 ms ] threadPROGRAM NAME LOCATION OPERATING HOURS
Next Door Shelter 1001 Polk Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Intakes Between 4pm-10pm
MSC South 525 5th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Intakes Between 4pm-10pm
Sanctuary 201 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Intakes Between 4pm-10pm
Canon Kip Senior Center 705 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Intake begins at 6pm
Given you're at Next Door, maybe you could try the other ones?
Back in December there were these torrential rains so a bunch of us stayed in St. Mary's when they opened up beds in the basement. As far as Sanctuary on 8th street is concerned, when St. Mary's was full some of us went there. It was being run by a group of latinos, some of whom didn't speak English (or pretended not to). They appeared to be saving beds for latinos. Given that there are shortages of places to stay and they may have been ex-homeless themselves, I don't know that I blame them. But it means that the entire system is being run on an old-school graft basis.
At MSC South they feed people 3,000+ calorie meals (ENORMOUS amounts of food) and had us eat at schoolchildren's desks.
I wish I was joking. It was insane and disgusting. I felt incredibly uncomfortable.
There isn't a word for it other than to say that I was worried that the staff might be conducting some sort of psychological experiment on the poor.
They also don't allow people to stay inside the building the entire day (they kick you out at 7am and then you have to line back up at 4pm and hope you get in), which means I have to find shelter in a public building - the only one being the library and a couple of "community spaces" at the bottoms of office towers. While I spend the day worrying if I'll have a place to stay that night.
Not usually a big deal, unless it rains, or I'm being followed by aggressive homeless in the public parks...
I could line up at General Assistance and see if they'll put me in another shelter (with a permanent bed), but my case is on the fifth of April and I don't know if they'll move me. They tried to deny my benefits with three days notice because I didn't have paperwork that showed that I have under a certain amount of money - even though they only told me that was for a $100 stipend. Which, I mean, come on. $100 isn't going to change my situation. So given that, it looks like someone at the office was either incompetent, or, more likely, they attempt to give people incredibly short notice on denying benefits in order to push people back out onto the street so they don't have to pay for shelter.
I'll go and ask again and look into this tomorrow, but I don't know if I move if my situation will become worse. If moving is even possible.
How would you like to sleep here? https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1563-e080-bd24-09330776...
That's the thing about cameras. You no longer get to call the poor insane when they can document the ways they are being screwed with. Ain't technology grand?
It makes no sense to be poor in the most expensive city in America. Go anywhere else.
What do I possibly do?
You're not treating me as a rational person worthy of dignity and respect or arguing in good faith. I can't take what you're saying seriously.
I write terrible shit on the internet because I'm being gassed with drugs.
If I can't make it in this country no one can.
How'd you beat the arson charges?
When I made that deal I made it clear both to my parents and to the court that this was not to be "therapy and mind altering medication for the rest of my life". And it won't be and I'm willing to die for my freedom. My mind is important to me, it's who I am.
I haven't been arrested since, barring someone having me arrested and thrown in jail in Ocean Beach for 72 hours because they thought it would be funny to dress up like me and wave a gun in someone's face. I didn't have $10,000 for bail.
I had to share a cell with someone who thought they could communicate with Facebook via telepathy and the king of England was telling them to kill child molesters. I switched cells to room with an "officer" in the KKK because it was an improvement.
I had spent several weeks prior starving in Ocean Beach before jail. I was eating uncooked rice out of my backpack because no one would hire me. I went door to door to every restaurant on the strip and handed out my email and phone number on little pieces of paper just to wash dishes or work for food.
I am stable and happy when I am not being continually drugged with marijuana against my will. Whatever my debt to society is for setting a toilet paper roll on fire in a Jewish Yeshivah because I needed a safer place to live than a dangerous inner-city homeless shelter where I thought my life was in danger has been more than paid back.
This is only one of many many stories of being treated as less than a human being worthy of dignity and respect. A person who is willing and capable of working for a living.
That someone who is as averagely competent as I am (I'm no genius, but I'm not an idiot either) can't find a job in this country is an indictment of the whole. I view the SVB collapse as a massive comeuppance. You know those guys doubled their book value on deposits in two years? And an exec at SVB worked as CFO at Lehman? I set two toilet paper rolls on fire and this shitstick collapsed the world economy (AGAIN).
Who wants to hire this guy? Shit let me know and I'll start a collection to short his firm and donate the proceeds to the poor.
Meanwhile every person who's been making the next version of pets.com (BUT THIS TIME WITH STABLE DIFFUSION/CHATGPT) is going to find that the VC money is now interested in stable companies that can, you know, MAKE MONEY. All the layoffs in big tech firms were sort of an aside, but at least this banking collapse coming when it has will mean that the "chatGPT for shoes" and "chatGPT for nails" trainwreck will stop before it becomes even more of a massive clusterfuck.