Posts Tagged ‘officers’
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
All right, camera right shows a light-colored Chevy properly waiting at the red arrow light to turn from westbound Fell onto southbound Masonic. The confused driver is in the blue two-door Honda – she wants to make the same turn to get from NoPA to SoPA but she’s in the wrong lane.
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Of course back in the day, the Honda driver would have been driving properly but things changed at this intersection about a half-decade back. Check it. Anywho, she sat there waiting to turn left even though she had a green to proceed straight on Fell Street.
That pissed off the driver of the car behind her, so then its driver is all “hoooooooooonk!” You know, at the Blue Honda Chick.
She doesn’t budge ’cause she knows she wants to turn left, you know, from the wrong lane.
Oh, here she goes, around the Chevy:
Now all that honking attracted the attention of the Park Station police, who also made an illegal left from the wrong lane in order to follow the blue Honda driver onto southbound Masonic. Here they are near Oak:
The moral of this story is that drivers will never get used to this unique intersection set-up. The reason being is that the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition overruled the traffic engineers who originally had cars on Fell turning left at the beginning of the green light phase for Fell Street. But you see, that had car drivers “going first.”
Oh well.
On It Goes…
And oh, what you’re supposed to do when you mistake driving is to just go with it, go with the flow. You know, respond to stimuli. So like if you’re in the westbound lane and you have a green to go straight then you should go straight for a while EVEN THOUGH THAT”S NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW. Obliviously, you can’t just make up your own traffic rules…
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle coalition, bicycles, bike, california, citation, cops, cyclists, dept., fell, golden gate park, illegal, intersection, lane, left turn, liight, msonic, NOPA, officers, panhandle, Park station, peds pedestrians, police, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, sfbc, signal, street, ticket, traffic
Posted in bikes, cars | 6 Comments »
Friday, April 5th, 2013
Saturday morning on Market Street betwixt the Powell Street Cable Car turnaround and the San Francisco Centre Nordstrom mall:
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Tags: 2013, bay area, bottle, Bottle Service, bus stop, Commercial Shoot, cops, Frisco Style, market, Mumm Napa Cuvee M5th, nordstrom, officers, police, Powell, San Francisco, satreet, SFPD, wine
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
If you want to get there and back again from the Panhandle bike path and Mid Market (and beyond), your best choice is McAllister Street.
It’s waaaaaaay better than The Wiggle route.
Why?
Well, why not? McAllister Street (aka the Hastings Cutoff) is shorter and swifter and straighter and safer.
Actually, The Wiggle is The Rookie’s Choice, full of part-timers like CW Nevius (oh he just quit cycling in The City, hardly surprising) and fast fixie riders who don’t know any better.
And The Movement prefers the Wiggle, for some unknown reason. But if you just want to get from A to B, then its Market McAllister Divis and eventually Fell for you.
Like this – that’s UC Hastings, your Hastings Cutoff lodestar, there in the background on the left:
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So you climb a bit more using McAl, like 20 more vertical feet if you add up all the ups and downs, but big whoop.
All right, see you out there on the HC!
Tags: 20, 2013, alamo heights, asphalt, attack, bicycle, bicycle coalition, bicycles, bike, bike coallition, bikes, boulevard, citations, civic center, construction, cops, cyclist, dept., eastbound, fell, fillmore, flat, golden gate, haight, hastings, inbound, lead, lower, market, mcallister, new, oak, octavia, officer, officers, outbound, panhandle, paving, pierce, pipe, police, repaving, route, route 20, route 30, safeway, San Francisco, sfbc, SFPD, snick, snickerdoodle, street, tickets, uc hastings, westbound, western addition, wiggle
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Monday, December 17th, 2012
Man, the cops are all over the place in and around Union Square these days, the better to protect the all-important holiday shopper.
So that means SFPD vehicles parked all over, as a show of force for newly-arrived felons, including your Mobile Command Centers One, Two, and/or Three, and beat cops just standing around the corner of Fifth and Market answering tourists’ requests about which direction is the Metreon, that kind of thing.
And if you’re a drug dealer, the SFPD will literally tell you to conduct your business a few blocks up Market near Turk, you know, in the Twitterloin containment / enterprise zone, where you belong.
A half-dozen cops, one felon, Market Street betwixt Fifth and Sixth:
Don’t click to expand, in fact, shrink it down if you want, but, just saying, there’s always a reason when I post a messed-up filtered photo…
Look for things to get back to normal starting the morning of January 1, 2013…
Tags: 101 market, 2012, 49 market, Applied Global Technologies, bank of america, bay area, branch, california, command one, command post, cops, department, dept., Ferrara Fire Apparatus, it takes a village, Justin Herman Plaza, long, longest, mobile, mobile command one, Mobile Commands, occupy, occupysf, officers, one, police, rv, San Francisco, SFPD, shoplifters, truck, twitterloin, union square
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Here they are:
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[UPDATE: Upon further review, these aren't Chinese naval uniforms after all:
At first I thought they could have been from the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy.
And oh, look what's on the PLAN's to-do list:
See that? In addition to taking over Japanese islands (the Senkakus and others), the neo-Imperial Chinese Navy wants to take over Vietnamese, Malaysian, Filipino, and Bruneian islands as well. And don't forget about Taiwan.
But we're being visited by a South Korean ship so it's all good.]
Tags: 054 type, 2012, bay area, boat, california, China, chinese, frigate, islands, korean, macy's, market, mid market, navy, officers, pak, People's Liberation Army, People's Liberation Army Navy, Philippines, plan, republic, rok, San Francisco, senkakus, ship, shopping, south korea, south korean, street, sunkaku, taiwan, take over, tour, union square, white
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
You know, I think a cowboy from 150 years ago would totally get this scene. You have a constable with a hat and a gun and a pair of boots, mounted on a horsey, looking for thieves on Market Street near a set or train tracks:
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Tags: 2012, 7th, bay area, california, central, cowboy, crime, gun, horse, iophones, iphone, market, mid market, mounted, officers, patrol, police, San Francisco, SFPD, street, tenderloin, theft, twitterloin
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
I don’t know, which would you rather see when you look outside in the morning? Would you rather see freaky Blair Witch evidence or bunch of Falun Gong holding this pose?
Geary at Laguna:
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I could go either way.
But, attention cultists, achtung baby: Signals intelligence officers are inside this consulate, sniffing your cell phone data packets, so to speak. Like a giant Google Maps car.
So, Falun Gongers, take your cell phone batteries out of your mobiles, if you know what’s good for you, whenever you protest over there.
Just saying…
Tags: 2012, 3g, 4g, bay area, blair, california, cell, cellualr, China, chinese, consulate, cult, cultist, cultists, Edge, embassy, engineers, espionage, exercise, Falun, falun dafa, falun gong, freaked out, freaky, geary, Gong, Intelligence, laguna, network, officers, packet sniffing, phone, pose, prc, protest, radio, San Francisco, signals, spies, spy, spying, street, witch
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
Today Larry Bush of CitiReport is looking at how Mayor Ed Lee is applying a standard unevenly.
Check it:
“…the appointment of Mohammed Nuru to be permanent Director of the Department of Public Works delivers one of the city’s most important agencies into the hands of a man who allegedly protected a serial sexual harasser, fired his own Equal Opportunity officer who had objected, was at the center of election scandals in 1997, 1999 and 2003, was involved in using a city-funded agency for political campaigns, and used thousands of dollars in city-funds to beautify his own block.
If ever there could be a case study on the application of the city charter’s proscription against “conduct that falls below the standard of decency, good faith and right action impliedly required of all public officers,” it would be the case of Mohammed Nuru.
Instead those standards were brushed aside by Mayor Ed Lee who extravagantly praised Nuru when appointing him two weeks ago…”
Read the whole thing, right here.
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, citireport, dpw, ed lee, larry bush, Mayor, Mohammed Nuru, officers, public, ross mirkarimi, San Francisco, sheriff
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Horses, that’s why. Police horses, that is.
JHP poo, tourists, the Embarcadero, and Ferry Building. Welcome to San Francisco!
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Perhaps the super-whiny whiners in the the area, such as Boston Properties* and whoever, will start writing sneaky letters to SFGov about how they’re going to sue, sue, sue over horse poo now?
Perhaps.
So, now that OccupySF is over, area property owners are happy? Really? Mmmm.
And who was it, was it Hawaiian Airlines or Disney what was demanding the end of OccupySF? Maybe I’ll look into that and see how they feel about Occupy. [Cough, boycott, cough.]
On It Goes…
*Owner of Embarcadero Center or someplace. (Now isn’t that a great name for a San Francisco company?)
Tags: (415), 2011, action, allen matkins, attorney, attorneys, bay area, building, california, chief, city attorney, cops, customers, damage, demand, Disney, ed lee, edwin lee, Embarcadero Center, encampment, four embarcadero center, Greg Suhr, harry bridges park, Hawaiian Airlines, holiday, horses, ICE, illegal, injunction, Justin Herman Plaza, law, leck gamble mallory & natsis, letter, letters, lighting, LLC, LLP, marshall c wallace, Mayor, mickey mouse, neighbors, occupy, occupysf, officers, police, poo horse\, San Francisco, skating, taint, tenants, three, toy story
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Why yes, yes it has.
See?
This is the area betwixt the bocce ball courts and Don Chee Way, right where OccupySF used to be until Mayor Ed Lee cleared the place out:
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Isn’t it sad that all those hippies camping out for all those months left City workers no place to park their luxury English motorcahs, you know, for free?
Always remember, Transit First!
Tags: 2011, ball, bay area, bocce, california, car, cars, cops, court, courts, dpw, ed lee, jag, jags, jaguar, justing herman, Mayor, mta, Muni, occupy, occupysf, officers, park, parking, plaza, police, s type, San Francisco, SF, SFMTA, SFPD, shaguar, tents, Wall Street
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