Posts Tagged ‘beach’
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
This is the machine pistol the SFPD just took away from a drug dealer on Broadway near Columbus Saturday morning:
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And this is a small billboard for rapper TECH N9NE a couple blocks away near Stockton:
(And last night’s SFPD press conference was one block further up Broadway…)
I can’t imagine it makes sense to carry a TEC-9 around the Streets of San Francisco, so I’m forced to conclude that people get them because the name sounds bad-ass.
The name sounds bad-ass owing to the 101 California shootings of 1993 - that’s when this gun took off, fame-wise.
(Here’s your TEC-9 hard at work.)
Anyway, I think we probably have too many of these items on the streets, just saying…
Tags: 840 Broadway, beach, bradway, community, cops, District Attorney, district attorney's, District Attorney’s, District Attorney’s Office, division, ean Parker, ean Parker Elementary School, elementary, George Gascón, gun, Internal Affairs, Jesus Paredes Rodriguez, Jesus Rodriguez, Kearny, machine gun, machine pistol, meeting, music, north, office, Office of Citizen’s Complaints, Officer Involved Shooting Team, officers, police, rapper, san pablo, school, September 19, SFPD, tec-9, TECH N9NE, weapon
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
I don’t know, is this a bad thing when the SFPD bags a wild-eyed pistol* waver, who aint afraid to die without anyone getting killed?
No matter, they’re having a meeting about Saturday morning’s shooting on Monday night, September 19th, 2011. (Is there a “community” what’s upset or something? Not sure.)
Hey, maybe BART can do one of these meetings a few days after they kill their next passenger? There’s an idea…
All the deets:
“SFPD Involved in Officer Involved Shooting
11-102
On September 17, 2011 at 2:16 AM, San Francisco Police Officers were involved in a shooting on the 400 block of Broadway.
Officers were working a uniformed foot-beat assignment near Broadway and Kearny when they detained a person they believed matched the description of a wanted suspect and whom they believed was engaged in a narcotics transaction.
After a brief contact with the officers, the suspect fled on foot. While being pursued by officer’s the suspect reached into his waist area, pulled out a “machine pistol” type of firearm fully loaded with one round in the chamber and twenty-one rounds in the magazine and pointed it at one of the officers. The officer discharged his firearm once at the suspect. The suspect dropped his firearm and was taken into custody.
The suspect was not hit by the officer’s bullet. However, an adult male and an adult female bystander were struck. The male bystander suffered a gunshot wound to the lower left leg and the female bystander sustained a wound to the upper right thigh. Both were transported to San Francisco General Hospital where they were treated and released for non-life threatening injuries.
The Broadway Corridor is a popular nightlife and entertainment district heavily populated on weekend nights. While it is still unclear why the suspect was armed, the presence of such a weapon, and his willingness to point it at uniformed police officers, made him a significant threat to the public as well as the officers.
The suspect was identified as Jesus Paredes Rodriguez, age 20, of San Pablo, California. He is currently being held in San Francisco County Jail for assault charges and weapons violations.
This incident is being investigated by the San Francisco Police Homicide Detail, which investigates all officer involved shootings, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, the Internal Affairs Division (Officer Involved Shooting Team) and the Office of Citizen’s Complaints.
A community meeting will be held at the Jean Parker Elementary School, located at 840 Broadway on Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:30PM.”
Se you there, maybe.
* “Machine pistol,” really? Make? Model? I gots to know. I hope it was a Micro Uzi – that’d make an impressive show-and-tell prop at a press conference. Here’s one used for fishing, to show you what it’s like.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
How many hills do you know of what come with their own Yelp entry?
You ought to get on up there sometime to check it out:
“Hill 88 is a wild ghost town in the sky, hidden way up high in the Marin Headlands. It’s on Wolf Ridge, between Fort Cronkhite/Rodeo Beach and Tennessee Valley. You can barely see it from below, and it’s nothing like most of the old little rusty lifeless bunker sites. This is a crazy Cold War mega-complex teeming with tons of crows dancing in the whipping wind above huge expanses of the bay and SF. It’s part of the old Nike Missile program, officially SF-88C. Was apparently the radar and control center (aka the IFC, or Integrated Fire Control area) of the Nike Missile launch site that’s further down the hill to the east.”
So, those are some of the remnants of Project Nike on top of now-flattened Hill 88 in the foreground along with the three peaks of Mount Tam (with the West Peak also flattened by the Air Force) in the background.
As seen from San Francisco:
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Now, you Know Better Your Marin County.
Tags: 2010, 2011, 88, air force, ajax, area, army, atomic, base, bay area, beach, bombers, bombs, california, Cold War, county, Fort Cronkhite, ghost town, headlands, hercules, hiking, hill, Hill 88, Integrated Fire Control, marin, Marin Headlands, military, missile, mount, mount tam, nike, nike b, nuclear, photo, pics, presidio, rodeo, rodeo beach, San Francisco, sf-88, sf-88c, sf-89, sutro, tam, tamalpais, tennessee valley, Wild Ghost Town in the Sky, Wolf Ridge, wolfback ridge
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
This new old-looking sign is now up, so one can only conclude that the closed C&M Bar is about to reopen as Beachside at 4300 Judah, way out there on 48th Avenue:
Via Mike Billings
See? Looks as if it’s been there forever.
GrubStreet has all the the deets that are to be had at this point.
Here’s the reverse angle next to the N Judah turnaround:
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Bon courage, Beachside!
Tags: 2011, 4300 judah, 48", 48th, ave, avenues, bar, bay area, beach, beach side, beachside, c&M, california, closed, closing, cnm, cnm bar, Muni, n judah, ocean beach, open, opening, outer, restaurant, San Francisco, street, streetcar, sunset, West Bay
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
NASA just posted a photo from the last Space Shuttle flight. It’s big, like 4000 pixels.
Here are some annotations. (The white line is the mighty San Andreas fault.)
Click to expand.“This image featuring the San Francisco Bay area was recorded with a still camera using a 180-mm lens by one of the Expedition 26 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying 220 miles above Earth.”
And here’s the plain version at 1800 pixels:
Surf’s up.
Tags: 2011, airport, bay area, beach, beaches, bolinas, california, City, county, devil's slide, fault, from, GGNRA, half moon bay, image, lagoon, marin, mavericks, nasa, ocean, ocean beach, pacific, pacifica, palomarin, parks, photo, Photograph, pic, point reyes, pt. reyes, rodeo, rodeo beach, san andreas, San Andreas fault, San Francisco, San Mateo, Sea, seal rocks, SFO, shuttle, space, Stintson, surf, surfers, surfing, tennessee valley, tunnel
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
See?
The Beach Chalet / Park Chalet parking lot in the foreground and the Ocean Beach parking lot in the background with the Great Highway inbetwixt, as seen over the Fourth of the July weekend, 2011:
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Oh, there were a few people at the beach as well:
See you next year!
Tags: 2011, bay area, beach, beach chalet, california, cars, chalet, crowds, fourth of july, lot, ocean, ocean beach, park, park chalet, parking, people, San Francisco, Sea
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Monday, June 20th, 2011
[UPDATE: Oh, here we go, now that’s a shark. And follow this link from Fred Sharples to see video of what all the fuss is over.)
Well that’s it, no more surfing at Stinson Beach this week due to the recent sighting of a 8-10 foot great white shark.
All right.
But THIS is a far better Stinson Beach shark sighting, one from 2008, don’t you think? Compare the size of the birds with the size of the fish:
Via Fear Beneath
Now, speaking of sharks, this one isn’t, I don’t think:
(Nice shot, though.)
Anywho, didn’t realize that the spotting of a three-yard fishy could shut down a Marin County beach for a week.
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News to me…
Tags: beach, closed, county, dolphin, great white, images, lifeguard, marin, photos, pics, porpoise, shark, sighted, sighting, stinson beach
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
So why did we give land to the Feds for them to take care of if we don’t want them to take care of it?
What makes us special that we need an exemption from federal rules, an exemption that nobody in America outside of the bay area expects?
That’s the Question of the Day.
A snowy plover on Ocean Beach _not_ being harassed by a dog:
Now, Ocean Beach Dog, ooh, somebody over there got an off-leash ticket from the Feds a looooong time ago. (Can you guess what year by looking at the website design? Sure you can.) Oh well. Well, the Feds don’t like Ocean Beach Dog and people what behave like Ocean Beach Dog. The Feds consider us Whacko City, USA because of outfits like OBD, oh well.
Most dogs don’t bother the boids, of course. Can you see the snowy plover?
But some dogs do harass the birds. (These aren’t actually snowy plovers near Lawton and the Great Highway but the dogs don’t know or care about that.)
(Get those Ocean Beach birds, good boy!)
And here’s the sitch up in Crissy Field:
See the birds, see the unleashed dog?
Is is surprising to you that an unleashed dog could find and chase these plovers?
Oh well.
On It Goes
Tags: baker, beach, bird, birds, citation, Crissy Field, dog, dogs, endangered, federal, fort, ft, funston, harassed, leash, ocean beach, off, plover, plovers, ranger, sf dog, sfdog, snowy, tickets, walkers, western
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Finally, the Yelpers agree – the 76 Marin Headlands rulez!
Check it, Per Helen L:
“I hate that this bus ONLY runs on Sundays and certain holidays.
I hate that this bus ONLY runs once an hour.
I hate that this bus stops running in the evening.
However, this is still the bestest MUNI route EVER!!!”
Here it is, in action near the Golden Gate Bridge:
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See you on the 76!
All the deets after the jump
(more…)
Tags: 101, 3rd, 4th, 76, 76 Marin Headlands, alexander, beach, beaches, berry, bunker, caltrain, conzelman, county, Depot, doyle, drive, exit, field, folsom, fremont, Golden Gate Bridge, Grassburn, headlands, highway, holiday, holidays, Kirkpatrick, lagoon, lombard, lot, marin, Marin Headlands, market, McCullough, mitchell, parking, Richardson, rodeao, route, sunday, sundays, surf, surfing, sutter, van ness
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Does Starbucks Coffee have a portable indoor-outdoor lectern ready for public events like today‘s at our non-closed-down* Ocean Beach?
No doubt. See?
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(Now, speaking of Supervisor Eric Mar, was he really “made to look like a fool on national television,” recently? Nope. E. M. knows exactly what he’s doing. And hey, K.G., don’t you wish you were a Supervisor on national television talking about your pet issue? Oh, that’s right, E. M. is electable and you, at least so far, are not. O.K. fine. But keep reaching for those rainbows, Ken Garcia.)
Bon courage, Starbucks volunteers!
*Well, as far as the Feds are concerned (is Boner really that orange, IRL? Replace Color; click anywhere on the face; saturation slider to the left, a way to the left; Save) it’s open, anyway.
Tags: 2011, 40th, anniversary, april 9, bay area, beach, california, clean, Clean-Up, closed, coffee, Columnist, community, Daily Show, day, district, eric mar, event, ken garcia, national, norcal, opinion, parking, richmond, San Francisco, sbux, service, starbucks, Supervisor, television, TV, volunteer
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