Monday, November 3rd, 2008
This fellow standing near Fillmore Street just had a physical altercation with another fellow sitting at a bus stop. Hard to say what happened, but the person shown appeared to make a beeline from a position of safety, threw a punch or two, and then took this position here about a half-block away.

Now here’s his appearance a minute later after a quick removal of clothes.

This appears to be a good technique to confuse law enforcement, should the need ever arise.
Tags: bus stop, clothes, description, fight, fillmore, haight, lower, quick-change
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
They like colorful real estate out by the ocean in San Francisco’s Parkside District.
Which is your favourite flavour - grape, mint, lime, or peach?

As seen from the 2500 block of Upper Great Highway near Ocean Beach. Click to expand.
Tags: color, colorful, great, highway, lower, ocean beach, outer, paint, parkside, real estate, San Francisco, sunset, upper
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
This was the scene on Haight Street the other day - four urban youths inside of one AMC Pacer. This thing was advertised as the “first wide small car,” and maybe it was. Back in the day, certainly, it was wide enough for the Sandwich King. And these days, a Pacer is good enough to get you into the Nor Cal AMC Club.
Perhaps Google could start using these cars to carry their Street View equipment around? Compared to brand-new, bright red hybrid Priuseses, a fleet of old Pacers might attract less attention from John Law.
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They loved it in France, for some reason.

Let’s say au revoir to les hipsters de Haight Street. Pretty soon, everybody will have one.

Headrests are for squares of course. Stay safe in your two-ton fishbowl!
Tags: ad, advertisement, AMC, american motors, ashbury, california, car, fishbowl, flames, france, french, haight, hipster, irony, lower, octavia, pacer, retro, rotary, San Francisco, street, tires, upper, whitewall, x
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Some fixed gear bike riders have it tough because they don’t have brakes on their bikes. So when they have to stop on the bottom of an incline they need to skid their rear tires. This leaves a loooong skid mark on the pavement, as you can see.
Take a look at this awesome video here to get the idea. Some rydahs run into trouble though - like Tony here, who was “surprised” to encounter a bus, at a bus stop, on a bus route, in Manhattan.

Let’s be careful out there:
“The EMT said if it wasn’t for my dreads, I would have had a massive concussion“
We’ll close with Morrissey’s thoughts on the matter:
“No brakes, I don’t mind.”
Tags: accident, ashbury, bicycle, bikes, brakes, captain of games, cyclists, fixed, fixed gear, gear, haight, hill, i don't mind, lower, marks, morrissey, no brakes, San Francisco, skid, street
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