I am so sick of cleaning up after vagrants and criminals.
Mid-day last Thursday I went out to our recycling bin to find our entire food waste bin emptied on the ground in our trash enclosure. On inspection I could see that it was dumped out on top of several large piles of human waste (see photos). This was in broad daylight, in the alley near Parking Lot 4 and CVS — maybe the most traveled real “paseo” in Santa Barbara. It was the second such event in two weeks. It took me 45 minutes to clean and disinfect the area — all while dozens of normal citizens and their families walked by and clearly saw what I was up to. Many were obviously visitors. Such a nice intro to Downtown Santa Barbara.
I went through the building’s camera videos and clearly captured images of the guy who did it and sent them to the city and the Police Department. This guy was not a “homeless” person, not a vagrant — he looked like someone I would not have confronted had I caught him in the act. Never seen him before. Doubt he has spent much of his life not in prison.