Dousing homeless at church gets S.F. archdiocese in hot water

[Heddi]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-archdiocese-will-stop-dousing-homeless-6143213.php#photo-7677403

First the water rained down, and then the condemnation rained down — and on Wednesday, San Francisco’s embarrassed Roman Catholic Archdiocese said it would tear out sprinklers that have been dousing homeless people sleeping in the doorways of its premier church in the city.
The sprinklers have been regularly dousing people camping overnight in four spacious side doorways of St. Mary’s Cathedral for about two years, leaving soggy piles of blankets, clothing, hypodermic needles and other trash nearly every morning. Preventing that type of mess, soggy or not, was the reason the archdiocese installed the sprinklers, church officials said.

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The sprinklers were actually just pipe holes high up the alcoves that dumped water every half-hour at times simultaneously in all four doorways, soaking the pavement.

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Now, however, Justice wrote, “we are sorry that our intentions have been misunderstood and recognize that the method was ill-conceived.”

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[Skittles]

1. that is seriously dememted

people actually give money to that crap church? ugh

[greendog]

2. “we are sorry that our intentions have been misunderstood"

[okasha]

3. Cordileone. Again.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I'm pretty sure this has been mistranslated from the original english. nt.

[Lordquinton]

5. You forgot the best part

The church is often referred to as the church of Mary Maytag, because it looks like a giant washing machine. Also appropriate because they're going through a massive spin cycle.