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was posted on a door along Market St. in San Francisco, and the clashing singular of "THIS PREMISE" and plural "SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS" made me chuckle.

Surveillance cameras are all the rage in San Francisco these days: our Supervisor, Ross Mirkarimi, is a tentative proponent of using cameras to 'deter crime', especially in the theft- and graffiti-plagued neighbourhood of the Lower Haight.

UPDATE: I snapped a better photograph this evening while I walked past transexuals turning tricks, odiferous oafs, slobbering junkies, dazed disenfranchised, and pungent perverts, really putrid. I have grown to intensely dislike the hopscotch I must play while walking between the bus stop at Eighth and Market and home -- I was trying to find an endpoint there, but the nastiness does not really stop until I cross Scott Street after Duboce Park. All along the path home, and especially in the "bike way" between Church and Market, the sidewalks are teeming with unhappy faces.