Posts Tagged ‘unsafe’
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
This wasn’t a sidelined bus waiting for help to get back on the road. No no, this was an operating #6 Parnassus heading inbound on Market just the other day.
San Francisco’s infamous jaywalking* peds will now need to keep an eye out for this kind of thing:

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*Uh, jaywalking isn’t illegal because of Big Oil. No no, jaywalking is illegal because Big Government wants to protect you from killing yourself. Yet another conspiracy theory debunked…
Tags: 2013, 6, access, bay area, bus, california, driver, driving, illegal, jaywalkers, jaywalking, market, mta, Muni, open, panel, parnassus, propped, safety, San Francisco, SFMTA, unsafe, up
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
It’s uncanny.
Prius drivers are pretty bad to start with, so Toyota should have taken steps to make sure that they’d be aware that their headlights are not on.
Toyota didn’t.
Market Street, inbound:

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Oh well.
Tags: 2013, automatic, bad, battery, bay area, california, car, drivers, driving, headlights, hybrid, night, prius, switch, toyota, unsafe
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
As seen on Fulton Street in the greater NoPA / Western Addition / DivCo area:

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This isn’t the way to do it, I don’t think…
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, extension, fulton, house, ladder, ladders, San Francisco, six, street, unsafe, victorian
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Why is it never a good time to go swimming at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach? Deadly rip currents, that’s why.
Those shown below are just wading, but that’s how people get into trouble. Things are better than they were before but, as this government study shows, them rip currents is everywhere at Ocean Beach.

So, beware, beware…
Tags: death, drown, drowning, lifeguard, ocean beach, San Francisco, unsafe, water
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Apparently, the freeways of California are open to scooters, if they’re the right kind. Like this Suzuki Burgman for instance, seen on the 101 heading north in Marin County.
Read all about these fast scooters here (and discover the set up for the Chronicle’s off-colour moped joke here). Maybe this is your new set of wheels?

Tags: 101, 400, 650, burgman, california, chp, dmv, freeway, legal, marin, moped, mpg, Safe, San Francisco, scooter, suzuki, unsafe
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