Do Baby Sitters, Pet Walkers Ignore Your Loved Ones ? Cell Phone Abandonment

    10/25/2017 UPDATE:   See This Blog Page For Links to Articles About Harm Caused and Safety & Health Threatened by Over Use of Cell Phones, Androids, Hand Held Devices to children, people, pets, babies and the community -- https://sfawareness.blogspot.com/p/more-about.html

Original Posting - October 3, 2017 3:30pm: 

        Our peers have been observing the conduct and behavior of all kinds of people, traffic, distracted drivers, Uber/Lyft Rideshare Drivers at the intersection of 16th & Valencia Streets, for over five years now -- four to six hours a day.

    We do this as we hang out with friends and help folks get into housingor help them with evictions, et cetera.

    While hanging out,  we document and highlight hazards to our safety as a direct result of gentrification and deployment of renegade 'high tech' delivery/ride share agents who have negatively impacted our neighborhood(s). 

     One thing we noticed that really makes us angry is to see folks walking dogs, pushing strollers with babies in them,  being TOTALLY IGNORED.   

   They're being ignored because the 'walker' or 'pet owners'; 'baby sitters' and 'parents' are TOO BUSY with their cell phone, android, iphone or other Distractive Device --  to pay attention to the babies and pets in their care.

       Instead of making eye contact, laughing, talking to or touching the babies and pets with constant love, caring and attention  --  the babies and pets being ignored look lonely and sad.  

    We often see the same pets and babies (and young children) passing by us every day and the Addiction Power of the devices result in abandonment and neglect of the pets and children. 

   You can SEE THE SADNESS of being ignored in their eyes.

      Do you or your pet or baby sitter spend more time on cell phones while out and about the streets and parks than with the loved ones in our care that need our undivided attention and great care ?


  Check yourself or your baby/pet sitters to SEE if your loved ones are being ignored or not.    

       If I were your pet or baby sitter you would see me spending 90% of my time and attention focussed upon the dog or baby in my care, NOT on a cell phone, video game or other distractive, anti-social devices....      

     Make sure your babies, children and pets are being well taken care of or they will likely suffer mental or physical ailments and depression because they FEEL like they are being ignored.


  IS YOUR PET WALKER OR BABY SITTER SPENDING QUALITY TIME WITH YOUR LOVED ONES ?

       We've thought about asking for donations from pet and baby owners who pay others to walk them up and down the Valencia and 16th Street area to have us watch to see how often their baby or pet is being ignored by their walkers.

     We do this because your pet or baby could be developing issues (abandonment) while in the care of the walkers and you don't even know it.  

   You may blame other people or elements in their lives or take actions to 'fix them' that are un-necessary.

      All that is required for our pets and babies to stay sane and healthy and to 'grow up right' is to be LOVED and PAID ATTENTION TO without having to compete with distractive devices that DIVIDE us all from each other.

  
       For the sake of our collective future,  DO NOT make using distractive devices a habit that can't be put down when you are around other humans, pets, animals and children.   

    The babies, pets and humans around you need our attention while they are physically present because it means their presence is more important than your next video game, phone call or text message.


   Be Here Now.

   If you have other people walking your dogs or babies,  think about following them on their walks from behind to see if they spend more time on their phones and text devices than they do with your loved ones. 

 

     You may be shocked to see how often they are being ignored.... or worse they may be physically abused or harmed while their Walker is distracted....

   
   The Worst Case of Abuse of A Pet -- By Cell Phone Distraction -- to The Extreme !

       One day we saw an 'upscale' looking lady walking a small dog while glued to her android device.

     Every time the dog stopped for a second to pee on a pole or sniff out a tree (with their body on trailing side of the object and leash leading forward around the pole to the walker's hand) the lady would pause for one second or two -- then jerk the leash (without even looking up from the android) hard to make the dog walk.

       Every time she jerked the leash (in tug, tug, tug motion) the dog's head and body would smash into the pole or tree and make the dog fall down on the sidewalk and then 'scramble' to get up on its paws as the lady kept tugging (without looking) until the dog moved forward again.

     
    She was totally unaware that she wasn't letting the dog have any quality time to sniff or pee and she was causing the dog physical discomfort and pain by being banged up against nearly every pole, parking meter and tree for two blocks on Valencia.

      We confronted her while she was banging the dog's head on a pole and she DENIED IT while she was doing it !! 

     We said LOOK, LOOK at your leash hand and dog right now..... 

     She looked and saw her hand jerking the leash back and forth as usual and SAW how the dog's head and body were being banged up against the light pole, as we called her attention to it....   SHE WAS STUNNED!   SHE HAD NO CLUE!

  THE DEVICES ARE SO DISTRACTIVE THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING THINGS THEY ARE NOT EVEN AWARE OF.

       The encounter with that lady was a real eye opener.  

     The devices are like a drug that causes you to lose focus on what's really important in the here and now and can make you have behavior problems (like uncontrollably dragging dogs down the sidewalk without paying attention to them or letting them have the sniff and pee time they need to be healthy) that impact others without you even realizing it.

    Never underestimate the ability of machines to negatively impact your life and the lives, health and safety of the living things around you.  

   For myself and my peers,   we no longer spend more than a half hour a day using hand held devices.    I check for text every 4 hours for about 10 minutes each check in.

      Now, I don't use a cell phone,  only wifi.    I leave my android OFF while out and about and only turn it on to check in for messages as stated above.

        It feels great to spend more time seeing and interacting with the people and things around me like I used to do... before everyone became addicted to these divisive devices.

        Less stress and lower blood pressure too as I spend most of my time laughing with babies and petting dogs (and cats) and being here and now with all the people around me.

      Many of them also have recognized 'the addiction' and have stopped using their phones all the time.   
 
Be Safe and Pay Attention to Your Self AND the People and Life Around You.

    Everything matters -- Every MOMENT MATTERS when it comes to a young pet or baby's lives.... don't waste it on an addiction to these hideous devices, that cause Cell Phone Abandonment Issues.

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2017 Increasing Awareness on All Fronts- Year of the Rooster

2017 is a year like no other.

  Many of us have been fighting corruption, tyranny, abuse, gentrification and privatization for years, decades and generations.

   We've seen our city and others around the nation become decimated by gentrification and renegade corporations take over space, push out residents by the tens of thousands and steal local cash flows for their non-taxed, foreign owned mega global corporations (from UK, largely).

   Because of for profit privatization of public services, jails, police departments, parking services by Major Corporations of the United Kingdom (in partnership with Bush's Krew in Florida), the Saudis, U.A.E. and other KINGDOMS, we know that at least 20 cents from every tax dollar spent goes into their tax free pockets and take local cash flows away from every community they operate in.

     You only get full value for tax dollars paid into public services, when they operate at cost in non-profit models that keep all the cash flows local.

   G4S Secure Solutions, Serco Global are examples of the two largest, most abusive and destructive UK Corporations that we know of, so far.    G4S has 65,000 Militarized Personnel on US Soil, in your local Safeway (see #WhoKilledRosco), local plazas, parks, rights of way, county jails, government offices, homeland security.  

    They have about 500,000 more personnel around the globe, badly operating refugee transportation, detention facilities and harm people everywhere.   Serco is G4S's lesser competitor who do about the same thing.

   Ok.  We know G4S (and contracted militarized personnel like them) attacked the water protectors, natives and supporters.   And involved with Orlando Pulse, and on and on.

   That's an example of the big enemies we have that harm us and take our cash from us.

   On the micro level,  we have seen another kind of destruction to us that's centered around those damn distractive devices.  Not only do they cause 400,000 new accidents a year, we never had before, but the number of assaults and strong arm robberies of our devices, purses, wallets, laptops and personal property has skyrocketed.

   To that end, we posted a call for Volunteers to form Safety Patrols and we know it will work well for us all. 

  One woman who saw the postings we made on Active Cell Phone Theft Area posting about the 16th & Valencia Street area that has three groups we've identified from numerous victims and witnesses.

    She saw this tall, thin, dark skinned young man (usually talking loud on cell phone as a distractor as he walks around 'spotting targets'  - working with -  a much shorter, older, medium toned skinned, well dressed (2/3 piece dark brown suit) man scoping out phones, purses at the FISH MARKET near 23rd & 24th and Mission Street.

  They tried to get her and her cell phone & purse, but she was already aware -- she yelled, fought back and ran.

  Yes, she came back another day with friends and now sees them and calls attention to them at the fish market.  

GREAT JOB!

Gott go, but here's the post:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/vol/5948311919.html

$500 REWARD- ZTE ANDROID STOLEN 411 VALENCIA ST PARKLETT

Posted on Craigslist: STRONG ARM STOLEN 6" ZTE Z970 DROID SMARTPHONE

    At about 9:45PM - MON OCT 10TH, 2016 -- My 6" ZTE ZMAX Z970 Android Phone was snatched from my hand, by a man who according to locals, hangs out at 16th St/Valencia Street, preying on locals with phones in their hands.

     He is FAST and in the past few hours, he tried to snatch phone from guy on bike near 16th St & Mission. MAY HAVE LATINO/CAUCASIAN (light skinned) person working with him to distract or block Victims.

     Then an hour later, he sees man walking from Wells Fargo ATM (16th/BART) towards Caledonia Alley next to Mission National Bank across from Pancho Villas, 3000 Blk of 16th St, told man he dropped money on ground.. man looked down, dude snatched his wallet, ran, got attacked by someone, dropped wallet, ran towards 16th St Mission Bart Station.

    Shortly thereafter, he was in front of new parklett at 411 Valencia, in front of Royan Hotel/Tea Shop, walking back and forth.... 

    I stopped using my ZTE and he disappeared.

      Ten minutes later while texting atty about a low income client case we're working on and he jumped out of shadows by surprise, I turned, he lunged towards me, pushed my shoulder back and snatched my ZTE smart phone.It has a keypad lock, it's MetroPCS and has some political sticker on the back and red piece of tape over the front facing camera.

     Here's the alert I'm sending all my peers...

Mon Oct 10, 2016 - Mission District, near 16th/Valencia- 

URGENT! MY ANDROID WAS STRONG ARM STOLEN AT 9:40 PM --- Tall (6'-3"+,  light shiny Carmel Colored Skin,  Slim Build (like he used to be a muscular athletic type, but looks like he's under weight), Young Male, 25-30 years old, clean cut, white tshirt... hangs out to steal!      HE GRINS AS HE TAKES YOUR STUFF OUT OF YOUR HANDS.   HE ENJOYS STEALING AND HARMING OTHERS. 

    SFPD has report. HAS EARRING IN RIGHT EAR.

    Laughs as he snatches your stuff... any wallet, cell phone is a target. 

  He hits up multiple victims within a couple hours.... 

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 TUESDAY MAY 16, 2017 UPDATE:

Serial Strong Arm Robber 

    Here's a first Rough Draft Sketch of the Suspect, as described above. 

  In reality, his hair is a bit shorter,  face a bit longer,  but the basic skin tone and body proportions are about right.   He also had a 'mini-hoodie' on his bright, white T-Shirt.

    He likes to put on his hoodie and 'crawl the walls' along store fronts as he stalks his targets for Strong Arm, Snatch & Grab Robberies.

     This is a First Draft Sketch that will be updated and become much more accurate as we keep adding info from witnesses, photos, videos to make the best, most accurate Sketch we can.  

  Thanks to everyone who's helped us so far.     

 May be living at local SRO Hotels or city housing units in the mission area, near 16th and Valencia Streets.

  HE IS VIOLENT.   DO NOT APPROACH HIM.

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SATURDAY  -- October 15, 2016 UPDATE:

   The ZTE Phone stolen from the community advocate above, had Low Income Client Case Information and Photo Evidence of Crimes, to this Theft, may be transformed into a more serious felony, since it has documents we need for upcoming court appearances.  

     Very sad to have so much valuable information on a personal device and have it STOLEN out of your hands by Thieves that are plaguing our city.   WE MUST FIGHT BACK !

 Be Safe.   More photos and stories of other crime victims coming this week.   

Cheers!
SFAwareness Group Moderators


 We're going to post Posters about this theft and increase awareness of locals and tourists in the Mission about how rampant the thefts are.    Many of the Thieves live at local hotels and SRO Housing Units on Mission and 16th Streets.