In San Francisco, people call the city's telephone hotline about 65 times a day to report piles of human faeces on streets and footpaths.
That adds up to 14,597 calls placed to 311 between January 1 and August 13, the San Franshitsco Chronicle reports.
Now, city officials are ramping up their response to San Francisco's "poop problem".
Starting next month, a team of five Public Works employees will take to the streets of San Francshitsco's grittiest neighborhood, the Tenderloin, in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner.
They will ride around the alleys to clean piles of poop before city denizens have a chance to complain about them, the Chronicle reports.
The poop problem has become a key issue for new Mayor London Breed of San Franshitsco.
"I will say there is more feces than I've ever seen here," Breed told NBC in a recent interview.
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