SAN FRANCISCO — Union Square’s newest billboard isn’t selling anything to shoppers. It’s warning tourists and putting the pressure on city officials to crack down on San Francisco’s drug problem.reads, “Famous the world over for our brains, beauty and now, dirty-cheap fentanyl,” in reference to San Francisco’s opioid problem.
“I think it’s not a great reputation for a city to have,” said Sofie Jensen, a tourist from Denmark. “Better to be known for the beautiful bridge, and the beautiful city because we really like this city.” “I am a parent, I have two baby girls myself, I think it’s sad, at least they’re doing something about it, informing everybody,” said Maggie Ramirez, a first-time visitor from Las Vegas.READ MORE:KPIX 5 met Meaghan Emmons, a tourist from Pennsylvania, who says she is a recovering addict.
“I think education is our way out of that, if there’s a way out of substance abuse, people dying. addiction is a sad disease,” she said. The San Francisco Travel Association, The Hotel Council of San Francisco, the Union Square Alliance and The Golden Gate Restaurant Association issued the following joint statement Monday regarding the billboard going up in Union Square.“There are no words sufficient to console the pain of those impacted by addiction across the United States.
Na, it's good! Let em know we got that Safe Supply™️. seegztho the Safe Supply Papi™️ and me pushin weight in these streets 💸
Then don't give free drugs to the Homeless using taxpayer money. Over 75000 Americans died because Fentanyl overdose last year. You know damn good and well its because of the Open borders. Prosecute the damn Cartels.
It speaks the truth
i came here in 2017, people laying all over the streets, under Ed Lee, no bill boards, no bad news output, everything quite, the whole city, why no push back, with all this homelessness and drug active then, why!! kkk are rich people, that pay poor people to drug have always been
They should also show Asians who come to this city that they will get robbed and beat by blacks.
Tourism was harmed when San Francisco forced them to walk over piles of human shit, when they continually get their items stolen, and when they have to witness addicts dying on the street.
Mothers against drunk driving should be tried in a court of law for tyranny and sentenced to death. Absolute madness to hang out your own City to dry and screw everybody because you're mad at the world ridiculous.
StopDrugDeaths 👍🏽 About time someone had the nerve to organize take a stand & speak up! People are afraid of the politicians’ bullies that attack Mid class working families that want to protect & save their neighborhoods kids families & elderly. ENOUGH! TreatmentNotTents
This will definitely attract thrifty drug addicts to the City.
Maybe it's the open-air drug markets, and the associated needles and crime, that harms tourism.
There might be more tourist coming here to SF just to check out the billboard!! Lol…
.. but if these people putting up the billboard has a message they're subliminally trying to get across.. is that SF is another Schithole City.. they've succeeded...
I've got to say that these people putting up this billboard are ignorant dullards.. recreational drugs/fentanyl are EVERYWHERE not SF centric..🙄..tourists have a better chance of getting robbed by hoodrats and or getting into a vehicular accident...
San Francisco is already dead. Only zombies and criminals are walking on the streets.
Funny how people think this billboard warning about fentanyl might harm tourism, but tourists tripping over people on every blocked addicted to fentanyl is not an issue. This is LondonBreed's San Francisco.
How does the billboard harm tourism when the board of supervisors sfbos already killed tourism?
San Francisco has had huge crime and drug problems for decades. The SF media would just sweep everything under the rug and point at Oakland. SF used to be far more violent but the media protected its image. What’s changed? Maybe no more tourists to scare away?
San Francisco doesn't deserve tourists! With the way it looks now and the way the police treat tourists who get mugged here every single day, or get their car window smashed, with such indifference and lack of sympathy, this city doesn't deserve good things at all! Just shameful!