[Photo by Dolores Park Works] [via Uptown Almanac]
71 Responses to “New ‘Welcome to Dolores Park’ sign is just a big ugly list of things you’re not allowed to do but probably will anyway”
Allan Hough (7858)
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Fuck this sign.
Yeah, fuck that sign.
Someone should fuck that sign.
You should fuck that sign.
…strongly considering a career in fucking this sign.
* No fucking this sign.
fuck that.
well I for one probably won’t be courteous and respectful of others…
NO DRUM CIRCLES
i love you
You should print out a sticker and add that to the list.
… and then also create a red and white one so you can create “STOP DRUM CIRCLES” messages on all the stop signs around the park. I mean, something has to be done.
how about no fucking amplified techno in the park. one idiot blasting techno does more harm than 100 people each breaking every one of the rules on that sign at once.
Agree 100%
Also agree 100% which makes 300% between the three of us so doesn’t that officially make it Law?
What if they play house or trance instead?
I fully support a no dubstep policy, however.
On the topic of dubstep, I thought this was funny: http://twitter.com/#!/DubstepSong
I agree, No amplified techno. However, I am OK with acoustic techno.
youre a shithead
I’ve always thought of myself as a fairly decent person, but after reading this I’m not so sure. I’ve broken every rule (some inadvertently, like littering) except picking up dog waste (I always do that) and having a BBQ (that I can remember).
And littering is on there twice. And “Please Obey” is the dumbest phrase ever.
This sign is stupid.
Just enter on 19th and none of this bullshit matters. Fuck that sign, all the same.
Although it wont have an effect on anything, this sign still makes me angry.
I hate that there has to be a sign. It is an eyesore. However, people are slobs in that park. It is littered with cigarette butts and trash. It’s shameful and sad that people abuse that land that gives them and others so much pleasure. Doubly so, because it shows a nihilistic attitude on the part of some participants when really most of them a lucky and relatively prosperous and therefore are really people who are simply selfish and vain.
I feel the alcohol rules are antiquated nonsense, but wont be enforced. Reading between the lines of this sign, it is really a plea for help. Please be thoughtful, please pick-up after yourself. Reasonable expectations from a city that has budgetary issues and shouldn’t be wasting money picking up after a bunch of thoughtless toddlers.
Excellent point. It sucks that there has to be a sign, but if people didn’t trash Dolores then it wouldn’t be necessary. It sucks walking around for 20 minutes trying to find a spot in the park that isn’t full of trash or dog and/or human shit.
“It sucks that there has to be a sign, but if people didn’t trash Dolores then it wouldn’t be necessary.”
The sign still isn’t necessary, because it won’t have any effect on that behavior.
Who needs rules, man, when people are just gonna break ‘em?
Well that effectively takes all the fun out of Dolores, doesn’t it? I will continue smoking and drinking and using drugs in the park, thank you very much.
No glass containers? Is the fuzz seriously going to bust me for drinking a bottle of Mexican Coke?
No Donald Ducking
What’s donald ducking?
Donald Duck doesn’t wear pants.
…and he wears a shirt. Shirt + no pants = surprise!
aka shirt-cocking
That’s actually called Porky Pigging. As in “He’s Porky Piggin’ it.” More fun to say.
If I’m missing the joke, then shame on me, but I really do hope that the people making comments here hating on the sign are joking. What exactly are you hating? A sign that asks people to act like civilized adults and not five year olds? If you hate the sign, then you must hate yourselves because all it does is bring attention to the ugliness that pervades the park. We have epidemic homelessness and unemployment problems and you guys are complaining about having to be clean? Grow up.
I am SOOOO gonna fuck that sign.
We wanna drink and smoke in the park, go away.
If most people picked up their garbage (bottles, bottle caps, cigarette butts) then there wouldn’t be a need for this sign. But as it stands as a volunteer who goes with DPW to clean up the place, the park is really quite disgusting due to the people who don’t understand the concept of not littering.
Just reiterating my comment above. There is still no *need* for this sign, because the sign is not going to affect behavior, which I think is the point most commenters are making. What is *needed* (if you believe it’s needed) is an effective way to get park-goers to follow the listed rules. This sign is not it.
I’ve found that taking an ACTIVE stance on the issue seems to help. People here in Cali seem to EASILY cave to direct confrontation.
“Hey. Why don’t you pick up your trash since I see you’re leaving?”
Seems to work decently.
Or I mean you could take the passive-aggressive route and complain on a blog about it.
“A sign that asks people to act like civilized adults and not five year olds?”
It’s true, when you go to Dolores Park it’s mostly 5-year olds drinking 40s and ripping bongs. It’s a serious problem. I think the fault lies with the parents.
Yeah, someone please think of the children!
Blame the transplants. Natives don’t need to be told this sh-t.
Blame the whites, then the hispanics, the indians, then mastadons, then the megasharks, then those things that were like birds but also dinasaurs. amoeba’s are the only ones who don’t need to be told this sh-t.
+1
Maybe we don’t need to be told this shit, but the evidence available on the blogs reporting this is pretty clear on the point that we’re going to keep doing some of it anyway. So from the point of view of the government zombies who put this sign up, we DO need to be told this shit, so they can say that we were warned after we are cited.
I, for one, am coming around to the position that the city and county of San Francisco should delete regulations that it has neither the intention to enforce regularly, or the police officers to enforce in an impartial fashion.
By the way, which version of the Hebrew faith do you guys belong to where the name of God is “shit” and you’re not allowed to spell it out without a dash? That one mystifies me. Shit: S-H-I-T. OK, now you can breeze your way through any spelling bee.
reconstructionist, it’s the sh-t.
Definitely watched a group of native kids show up with a box of whippets, get through the entire box in about 10-15 minutes, tossing all their shit on the grass when they were finished with it. Didn’t take a damn thing with them when they left.
I usually bring my whippets to the park, but when I do, I pick up their poop and make sure they are well-behaved.
Whippet good!
How is that different from the streets of The Mission, where we live with that on a daily basis? Where are the sign on every corner saying that that is prohibited? How would that have any more effect than the signs saying that bicycle riding is prohibited on the sidewalk?
God, can we please have more than ONE of those in the whole neighborhood? Seriously, I think there is ONE no bikes on sidewalks sign. ONE
do you even live in the mission? there are plenty of natives that drop their trash as they walk past my house so you need to come up with a better argument than that.
These are laws/rules that have been around for a while.
How about this for fine print: “Any of the above x 2 is ok. Anything above that is illegal. Especially Drum Circles.”
Quit whining, it’s not even that big of a sign. People just seem eager to feel oppressed.
The sign says nothing about public sex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLb9jPuDS9Y
Dude, this is so going to end up in somebody’s living room. Don’t think the parks department will have the same luck tracking it down as Mr. Pickle either.
Awesome idea. MM should promise some sort of prize to whoever submits a photo of that sign proudly displayed in their living room. Heck, now *I* want to steal it.
WTF??! No Fixies didn’t make the sign list?
No “No masturbating under a blanket”, either.
WHEW
Rocky, even the park service needs something to laugh at.
I like the sign. But I also like things which get people’s blood all angried up. Rage on my fellow monkeys!
Someone Needs to Learn What a Proper Noun is and What is Not.
I’m also confused about how littering and camping are similar activities? (same line item)
And really you can’t have a bbq in the park out here? That is a huge bummer. One of my favorite things to do on a nice day is fire up the grill…
No people in the park. Revert the park to native plants and habitat! There, that will solve everything.
The commercialization is starting….what a fucking joke
It never ceases to amaze me what a bunch of 5-year olds post their disdain for a common sense sign like the one at 18th and Dolores, and think it’s such an outrage that they should be asked to live by any rules. Yes, folks, it’s all about YOU and what YOU WANT–screw the rest of the world. SF is filled with people like you who feel endlessly entitled. You take and give nothing back in return.
Blah blah blah.