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Homeless people keep leaving markers in my neighborhood?

I am trying to clean up my neighborhood of drug dealers' and homeless people's junk. However, apart from the clothes, needles, tarps, etc., I keep finding little "markers" in various places. For example, a plastic bag tied around a tree, a "CAUTION" ribbon tied around a stop sign or a utility pipe, a pamphlet jammed into a utility pole, and so on.

I keep removing them, and they reappear. Has anyone else had any experience with this? What is the best way for dealing with this?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Nothing really you can do but as far as the needles I would call police.

  • 6 years ago

    I have that in my neighborhood. I kept seeing homeless walking up and then in front of my house and then down the street. It is a shortcut through my neighborhood. I couldn't figure it out until I saw the back of the stop sign and the no parking sign pointing the other way. There on the back someone used a "Sharpie" and there was a note that I couldn't understand and an arrow. Also I had a huge redwood tree growing in my front yard and it began to stink to the point my neighbors complained to me. When I had the lower 6ft of branches trimmed I found it to be a homeless toilet station. Here's the rub, after I had it trimmed they now use my front porch to defecate and urinate.

    When I complain to the Sheriff's Dept, they just tell me to file a report with the Safety Officer... The Safety Officer never answers the phone.

    I will sell the home this year and move out of California. Wonder why I never give money to a bum on the off ramp? This should have answered that question.

  • 8 years ago

    Move to a better neighborhood ? You can't stop it. Just like a street sweeper, the next day it looks like the weren't there.

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