Read all about it here.
Whoops, maybe not. What happened?
Well then, read all about it here, below.
Poor Sandra! Poor Kristy!
[UPDATE, APRIL 30, 2013: Pulled. Come back May 1 for details, if you want.]
[UPDATE, May 1, 2013: Oh, you're back! Well, you know, the same basic info has been posted here by SideCar and it pays off on the headline of cars getting impounded. So I guess that's that, for now. Thank you, drive through,]
2010:
“On the new green bike lanes and separators sprouting up all over the city:
2012:
Market Street, USA, between 6th and 5th, inbound, morning drive, last week, and the week before, and the week before…
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Dude, is that a BMW R1200RT-P? That’s the first I’ve seen in SFPD service.
Usually it’s motorcycle cops enforcing traffic laws in the Mid Market area (which, let’s face it, is an open-air halfway house filled with people who are just out of jail, about to go to jail, or a little of both.)
But yesterday AM, there were beat cops asking for ID’s and handing out citations on Market betwixt Mason and Fifth Street, so I don’t know.
Begrudging compliance with the fuzz:
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If you get the chance, ask Alexi Celine Wasser of the somewhat saucy ImBoyCrazy.com - maybe she’ll have the full scoop.
I don’t know, I’m working on my third decade of cycling in the 415 and I’ve never been busted for running red lights or stop signs, which, you know, is what I do many times each and every day. Mmmm.
Anyway, this is an especially good time to avoid the overrated Wiggle route, due to its numerous enforcement actions. Try McAllister to Divis to get to the Panhandle, if you want. ‘Cause, you know, it’s faster, shorter, easier, quicker, etc.
And there’ll be no cops to give you tickets, I assure you.
[UPDATE: OMG, the blue car below might actually be from Google. See the comments. I fear the worst. Courage...]
[REUPDATE: Bluoz, that guy who just loves to hate on Randy Shaw and that whole Tenderloin Housing Clinic / BeyondChron public-private real-estate/media empire, confirms the Googleness of this Subaru. It says "Google" right on the side of the thing. They're ba-aaaack! First chemtrails and now this.]
Remember this scene back from aught-eight, when the Google Maps car got pulled over in San Francisco’s Presidio?
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Now, it turned out that the Google Car driver got ticketed, but not for a moving violation. Apparently, Google didn’t feel the need to secure a permit to photograph this National Park for commercial purposes, even after discussing the issue with the Presidio Trust. But Google showed up anyway so somebody called the federales and Google got an expensive citation.
Well, Google isn’t the only operator of maps cars about town, it seems. Check out this new one, one that only just recently ventured into our Presidio:
What is the driver mapping with that masted array? And does the Silicon Valley company that sent it here doing whatever it is it’s doing have permission from the Presidio Trust?
Don’t know and don’t know.
Keep a look out.
And to our corporate overlords, I say this: Any Car Color But Black:
“Project requirements
20 cars where allocated to Germany. We felt that the remaining visible black on the cars was still playing a negative role especially with the derogatory press that Street View had received in the past year.
What we did
We co-ordinated with Googles Geo team, logistics team and Street View car teams to produce a full car wrap that would cover the whole car. The chosen designs were then implemented by Picture onto 20 cars over a period of 5 days in Stuttgart.”
Lovely “Helicopter Hero” Aimee Garcia had a mishap a few days back in San Francisco while filming a scene for new (and improved?) Trauma.
As she recently related to NBC’s Natalie Morales:
“I was doing a scene where my ex-military boyfriend gets in a fight, and it was scripted that I just stand there … I just got involved. I pulled one actor off of another and they loved it. They said, ‘Keep doing it.’ We did it 12 times and I didn’t realize on the first take I broke my finger.”
Here’s the video from the Today Show.
A finger mishap always makes for good TV of course, especially when you don’t lie about it.
Let’s hope Aimee can get her left hand back on that giant twirlypopper’s collective control sooner rather than later.
Courage.
Via Steve Rhodes comes a few images of Santarchy. Yes, San Francisco SantaCon 2009 managed to march through Union Square today.
SC09 is bigger and better than 2007 or 2008. Is the Red Tide coming your way?
The temporarily-widened sidewalks of Powell Street are no safe haven for boozing Saint Nicolaseses. Look out Santa, it’s the cops!
A detention and citation for this fellow:
Busting for drinking in public – a 12-ounce Tecate was the weapon:
It really is like a red tide – at 17th and Castro and Market in front of the Twin Peaks bar:
And the regulars at the Triple Crown had a surprise today:
How many more Santas will get cited?
When will it end?
[UPDATE: Uh oh - appears as if Google has revisited the Presidio to update all the photos they had in there. So now you can't follow the police chase by looking at the dozen or so shots actions shots from 2008. Too bad!]
[UPDATE II: Google has moved on to Subaru Cars: Meet the New Google Maps Car 2011.]
Here’s the scene last year when the Google Maps car got pulled over in San Francisco’s Presidio:
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Turns out that the Google Driver got ticketed, but not for a moving violation. Apparently, Google didn’t feel the need to secure a permit to photograph this National Park for commercial purposes, even after discussing the issue with the Presidio Trust. So, somebody working at the Presidio called the Federales and Google got an expensive citation.
It seems that rich, rich Google can afford to plant 800 pound “pins” all over town for the promotion of Google’s My Favorite Places, but it can’t see its way clear to get a necessary permit to operate on federal land? Mmmm.
Now, go here [you can still try but I think they're all gone now] to see the hot pursuit by this United States Park Police Officer. Scroll around and keep clicking – you’ll see the whole chase all the way up Montgomery Street.
Pull over, Google! The feds want to chat:
“I’m in Hot Pursuit! Choo choo! Kik-kik-kyah, I love it! I love it!” Or kyew kyew, either way.
But if Google can afford $700 Japanese toilets for all its bathroom stalls, then it can probably afford the occasional trespassing citation.
Anyway, keep up the good work, Googoo!
