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When you’re looking for masses of confused drivers, come to Market Street, USA.
Posts Tagged ‘yelling’
If You Drive Your Big Pickup Up Fifty Yards of Market Street Bike Lane, You Just Might Get Yelled At
Friday, August 24th, 2012MUNI #5 Fulton Driver Tells Man to “Man Up” – Yelling at Passengers Instead of Picking Them Up
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012Actually, the driver told the (potential) passenger waiting at the stop near Gough to, “Be a Man!” You know, as he drove away.
Yelling over the P.A. system that the bus had. (MUNI buses have P.A. systems? Did not know that.)
Anyway, here’s the driver, yacking away…
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And here’s the passenger left in the lurch, staring down McAllister for the next bus:
On It Goes…
Stand and Deliver: A 30-Second Ricky Ricardo-Style Fusillade En Espanol Late Night in the Corrupt Twitterloin
Monday, April 2nd, 2012Or Portuguese, one or the other.
The dude who was sauntering away made it about 100 feet before giving in to the urge to glance back:
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So it goes in Randy Shaw’s “Uptown” Tenderloin / Corrupt Twitterloin area.
Here’s What the Current SFPD Crackdown on Market Street Cyclists Looks Like – No Tickets Yet, But the Cops Will Yell at You
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012For some reason, Market Street has crosswalks in the middle of blocks, complete with traffic lights. So cyclists tend to look around for peds and then blow on through, multiple times a day, you know, for decades no problem.
But these days the SFPD is trying to change things by actually enforcing California Vehicle Code CVC 21453 on bike riders just as if they were car drivers!
But, I wouldn’t call this a sting* or nothing, I mean, it’s just the cops slowing you down to yell at you at bit.
This boring video of three minutes of yesterday’s inbound commute here shows what it’s like – the motorcycle cop had just yelled at the cyclist you can see on the right at the red light:
(The yelling occurred at :40 or so.)
One supposes the next step in this operation will be to have the SFPD actually start handing out citations.
(Actually, cops don’t really like citing cyclists, for various reasons. One supposes that this is an enforcement action specifically directed at bike riders. This kind of thing occurs from time to time of course.)
On It Goes…
*”A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect’s actions to gather evidence of the suspect’s wrongdoing.”
The Story of the Wiggle Bike Path: Over-Privileged Cyclist vs. Under-Attentive Driver
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Here’s a little vignette from The Wiggle bike path in the Lower Haight area of San Francisco. The driver of this green cute-ute literally didn’t know where she was going. So, she sat a bit at the westbound stop sign on Waller at Steiner while trying to think of her next move. Maybe she was lost, or looking for a parking space, who knows.
Then here comes dude on his bike. As he’s he’s blowing the stop sign, passing betwixt the SUV and a parked car, the SUV driver decides to turn right. This cuts off the cyclist, who starts out yelling, “Hey lady, do you know where you’re going?” Something like that. Repeatedly.
So here’s the scene after he chased her down Steiner while yelling all the while.
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No doubt the driver needs to try harder, but the cyclist seems to think he has the right to blow stop signs with impunity. If he had stopped and then gotten cut off, then he’d have a point.
Anyway, this typifies your Over-Privileged Cyclist vs. Under-Attentive Driver angry interaction in San Francisco.
Oh well.
About How Long Can You Yell Incoherently on the Steps of San Francisco City Hall?
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Well, if it’s around 9:00 AM and you’re by yourself, the answer is this - not very long at all. You might get in a few stanzas at the top of your lungs, but expect a Deputy Sheriff or Senior Deputy to appear in the doorway after a minute or so (or maybe a little longer if the thriftiest of them are off “feeding the meter“).
Then they’ll all come out, maybe with a Sergeant if you’re lucky. But they won’t care a whit about your bible or your beef or whatever. They’ll just make sure you pipe down and/or move along.
This man was emphatic while making his point about his bible:
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It’s your choice.
[UPDATE: The same fellow as seen 14 months ago in a recent MUNI Diaries post. Perhaps they give you a longer amount of time to get your pont across on MUNI? Probably.)
