Here's a Haight Street ProblemTM: it's hard to brown bag your booze when you're scrapped for change and bags cost ten cents.
Yesterday, we were walking behind some homeless kids who were talking about the ten cent bag law. To paraphrase, expletives deleted:
Yesterday, we were walking behind some homeless kids who were talking about the ten cent bag law. To paraphrase, expletives deleted:
"Sometimes I don't have ten extra cents! Like, what am I supposed to do, walk around with an open container? And even if I had ten more cents, I don't want to spend it on a bag, like, maybe I could spend it on more booze, or food or whatever."We've heard a lot of complaints about SF's bag law, mostly from retail shoppers who don't want to pay extra money for the convenience. What we haven't heard about is the effect the bag law has on people to whom ten cents is a lot of money. If you're homeless and unable to afford a ten cent bag, drinking is effectively illegal to you. Come to think of it, we haven't really been seeing a lot of folks brown bagging it. Have you?
