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July 5, 2021

all 160 new shopping carts were stolen from a San Francisco Safeway within 1 week

“Zero shopping carts. It appears they have all been removed including the cart racks that were outside the front of the store,” read a Google review for the store posted by resident Paul Johnson on July 2. “How the hell are you supposed to purchase things like bottled water, canned sodas, beer, seltzers, or wine in the same visit?? I tried the Potrero St. and Mission st. stores too. Zero.”

Another complaint from Upper Market resident Scott S. went on to say that when he asked for a cart, he was told by an employee that all of them had been stolen.

"They had a shipment of 160 carts last week and all of them have been taken," he wrote in a Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Facebook group, according to Hoodline. "What good is having security if they can't stop someone walking off the property with a shopping cart."

Wendy Gutshall, a spokesperson for the grocery chain, confirmed the change in shopping cart availability was an attempt to combat rising theft at the store, and that customers will be required to ask for assistance if they’d like an employee to help them take their groceries to their car.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Safeway-San-Francisco-shopping-carts-theft-Market-16293305.php

July 5, 2021

Resident of older waterfront high rises are uneasy..keeping go bag by the door

SURFSIDE, Fla. — After the Champlain Towers South Condo collapsed a couple of miles away from his home, Miami Beach resident Dan Ribeiro began feverishly snapping photos of what he said were concerning conditions in the garage of his high-rise — a condo taller and older than the one that partially collapsed in Surfside.

He is so worried about the cracked concrete, rusted steel and water leaking inside the garage of the Maison Grande Condominium that he now has a "go-bag" by the front door with essential documents, a change of clothes for him and his wife and gift cards for hotel stays.

"It's just scary," Ribeiro, 39, said.

Second to the grief that South Floridians feel for those who died in the Surfside collapse and their families, a feeling of uneasiness has washed over some residents living in older, waterfront condo towers. They are now sounding the alarm about what they fear may be potentially perilous conditions in their buildings.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/07/04/are-we-next-worried-high-rise-dwellers-take-photos-seek-answers-after-surfside/

July 5, 2021

Pro golfer Gene Siller and two others shot to death on golf course

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/04/us/gene-siller-pro-golfer-shot-killed-georgia-golf-course/index.html

The shooting happened Saturday at a country club in Kennesaw, Georgia.
(CNN)Police are looking for the person who shot and killed pro golfer Gene Siller at a country club north of Atlanta on Saturday.

Cobb County police responded to a report of a person shot around 2:20 p.m. and found Siller on the green of the 10th hole of the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, according to a news release from the police department.
Siller, who was a club employee, was found unresponsive with an "apparent gunshot wound to the head" and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The suspect had driven to the green in a white Ram 3500 pickup truck and shot 41-year-old Siller when he went to see what was going on, a member of the club told CNN affiliate WXIA. The suspect then fled, WXIA reported.
July 5, 2021

Fireworks poll

July 5, 2021

Even in the U.S. he couldn't escape the label 'untouchable'

SAN FRANCISCO — Prem Pariyar believed he had left caste oppression behind when he moved from Nepal to the United States.

Here, he would no longer be targeted as an “untouchable.”

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“The tech industry has been a bastion of caste bigotry,” said Soundararajan. Her organization heard from scores of tech workers who said co-workers or supervisors discriminated against them because of their caste. “We had 250 complaints,” she said, “and it was every single tech company you could imagine.”

Soundararajan shared screenshots of casteist comments from Blind, an anonymous tech forum. Some writers left crude remarks about Dalits, while others argued there was nothing wrong with the caste system.

One user, VmBW03, wrote:

“How can caste be derogatory? It’s beyond me. Caste is nothing different from surname. It’s like ethnicity. Unless you are not proud of your ethnicity, no need to be ashamed of your caste. I for example am proud to be of a Brahmin background.”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-07-04/fight-to-add-caste-as-protected-category-in-us

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