The San Francisco Citizen

Radiohead’s recent attempt to give away concert tickets failed in France because people were too lazy to pedal their bikes on over to pick them up. Quelle horreur!

But things will be different if Radiohead tries the same stunt in San Francisco this summer.

A rainbow over Golden Gate Park from the San Francisco Botanical Garden. The park will be In Rainbows once again when the Outside Lands music festival starts up on August 22nd.

In fact, if Radiohead tries to give away tickets to people who cycle to some office building in San Francisco, a riot will probably break out.

There Will Be Blood, or at least a squabble or two. But, rest assured, all available free tickets will get distributed and used.

See you there! 

The phrase getting the boot can mean a few different things. In San Francisco, the primary definition relates to your car getting a big yellow Denver Boot. You can see it attached to the front left wheel of this aging Range Rover Classic SUV. Why would the authoritahs pick on you this way? Well, not paying five or more parking tickets is one good reason.

The scene below was reason enough for Flickr contributor permanently scatterbrained to change his vote to Mike Huckabee: 

Well, someone just lost my vote. Not only are these liberal thugs flaunting basic local traffic laws, but they’re doing so in a gas-guzzling, terrorist-enabling SUV behemoth that’s not even American made. Huckabee ‘08! 

permanently scatterbrained via Flickr

In defence of the operator of this vehicle, Obamamania has infected the entire Bay Area, so paying those pesky and expensive $50 parking tickets issued by DPT (or MTA or whatever they call themselves this month) might seem to many like a chore worth putting off.

Also while it’s true this vehicle was made in merrie olde Englande, it has a Buick engine (mas o menos) and maybe even a Chrysler transmission, so factor that in before you start the hatin’.

And, what looks like red paint on the curb is actually indicates a “pink zone” where some people park without fear of getting ticketed. Take a look at the very same curb here on MapJack. See? The red zone starts at the stop sign, don’t you think?

So, things aren’t as bad as they seem in this photo.  Let’s have a little sympathy for this youthful supporter of the next president(?) of the United States!