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Other => Random Ranting => Topic started by: 420 on June 05, 2009, 09:11:01 PM
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Shortly before lunch Throbble wondered why all the helicopters were flying overhead.
This happend 4 blocks from our apartment at 11:30 am today:
PG&E looking for cause of Tenderloin blast (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/05/BAG8181NH5.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea)
J. Anthony Reed, 47, was watching the movie "Hangover" at the AMC Theater on Van Ness when all the lights went out and the smell of burning rubber filled the theater.
That's a multi-story movie theater that Throbble, Cuchulann and I regularly meet at to see movies together.
It's 6:00 pm now and the helicopters are still buzzing.
Post here about anything interesting that's happening in your neighborhood.
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My neighbor put up a new mailbox post. That's the extent of it around here. We don't judge distances by "blocks".
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I don't have a "neighborhood."
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This happened in someones neighborhood:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80661064/
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Well here's a scary incident. 420 has said that commuter cycling in SF is an extreme sport. Its even more true when your ride is a rolling time bomb. Last week I discovered that the reason for the irregular rubbing of my rear brakes was due to the rim being cracked. So i got a new rim and after changing out the gears, i cleaned up the odl rim to see just how bad it was. When i peeled back the liner on the inside I saw just how bad it really was. Not just cracked but complety splitting apart on the inside. This thing could have exploded at any moment. I've heard about bike rims exploding before but never have i been so close to getting first hand expierence to such an event.
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When i peeled back the liner on the inside I saw just how bad it really was. Not just cracked but complety splitting apart on the inside. This thing could have exploded at any moment. I've heard about bike rims exploding before but never have i been so close to getting first hand expierence to such an event.
I know you're bike parts are quality so that goes to show how important that is. Lesser rims probably couldn't have handled that sort of wear.
Cool pics too.
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Well it's hot in my neighborhood. 25C outside and inside some warmer than that with all my PCs running. I don't have AC :)
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Helicopters woke Throbble and I up this morning (yes, it was 11am but we were at a wedding last night):
Smoke pours from Market Street manhole (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/06/BA6P18JSI7.DTL)
Now, we just heard (5:20pm) a big explosion coming from the direction of Van Ness. I'll post any news about it if I see it.
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This morning while riding near that intersection (around 8:45) I thought of the earlier explosion from last month and had an image in my head of dodging exploding manholes. Kinda like the old Paperboy Nintendo game. Guess it's time to ride wearing a flak jacket and asbestos pants from now on. Seriously though my psychic radar has been getting hits all weekend. Weird, Think ill buy that sledgehammer too and have it sanctified.
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People have fallen in during the winter but I've never heard of anyone drowning during the summer. I Walk around this lake several times a week:
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=f99fb56b-3770-49b3-a11a-aeaa557b0ea2&headline=Crews+search+for+kayaker+in+Lake+Massabesic
I work two buildings away from where this guy fried himself
http://www.wmur.com/news/19964272/detail.html
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People have fallen in during the winter but I've never heard of anyone drowning during the summer. I Walk around this lake several times a week:
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=f99fb56b-3770-49b3-a11a-aeaa557b0ea2&headline=Crews+search+for+kayaker+in+Lake+Massabesic
I work two buildings away from where this guy fried himself
http://www.wmur.com/news/19964272/detail.html
Thanks, my Firefox crashed when I opened that second link of yours.
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Thanks, my Firefox crashed when I opened that second link of yours.
That's odd I didn't have any problem. What version are you running?
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That's odd I didn't have any problem. What version are you running?
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3.5 but I'm sure it was caused by something else....Thanks a lot 420 I wanted Meclar to feel bad !
I didn't know you live in NH. I drive through there everytime I go to Maine or Boston. I like the White Mountains very nice. Better than the Green Mountains next door.
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I was going to make a comment about how I couldn't get the first link to load at all, but decided to be lazy. Now that you've used the guilt trip card about the second link, I feel more inclined to rub it in with bitching about the first link. :)
Meclar, your links suck ass. lrn2google.
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Works for me.
3.5 but I'm sure it was caused by something else....Thanks a lot 420 I wanted Meclar to feel bad !
I didn't know you live in NH. I drive through there everytime I go to Maine or Boston. I like the White Mountains very nice. Better than the Green Mountains next door.
White Mountains are easy to like. Greens are far superior!
That is why I like NH ocean, mountains, city without any of it in my back yard.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/18/san.francisco.rail.crash/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
I was wondering what was happening with the Muni earlier today. They were only running Castro street shuttles and turning the trains around there. Seems a pair of them bumped near the exit from the undergound. At the speed which those cars run around there It couldnt have possibly been worse than the Metro crash in DC eariler.
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Grandson of a volunteer I work with died yesterday. http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NH+teen+dies+in+motorcycle+crash&articleId=d1719973-2534-46c7-86a8-c5dc71cc50b4
And the severe storm that came by last night had a sense of irony:
"Lightning started a small fire at 181 Electric St., causing about $2,000 in damage to the home" Full article (http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Storms+cause+problems+for+power+customers&articleId=1e24ffe7-0a9f-4692-9191-ee2c1de0d674)
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Grandson of a volunteer I work with died yesterday. http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NH+teen+dies+in+motorcycle+crash&articleId=d1719973-2534-46c7-86a8-c5dc71cc50b4
And the severe storm that came by last night had a sense of irony:
"Lightning started a small fire at 181 Electric St., causing about $2,000 in damage to the home" Full article (http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Storms+cause+problems+for+power+customers&articleId=1e24ffe7-0a9f-4692-9191-ee2c1de0d674)
Gee. Even New Hampshire has more exciting neighborhood than mine! We had a pretty crazy electrical storm here a couple days ago. I thought I was gonna be struck by lightning running to my car.
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http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/08/f-market-collision-injures-six.php
Saw this on my way home today. Two of the vintage streetcars on Market street making a sandwich out of an SUV. Looks like somone forgot the law of gross tonage.
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Saw this on my way home today. Two of the vintage streetcars on Market street making a sandwich out of an SUV. Looks like somone forgot the law of gross tonage.
That's what happens when you go up against one of our vintage street cars. Throbble and I were in a cab on Market a few years back when we passed a street car that had obliterated a minivan that tried to cut it off. Unfortunately the way the cabbie decided to pass was by driving into oncoming traffic.
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That's what happens when you go up against one of our vintage street cars. Throbble and I were in a cab on Market a few years back when we passed a street car that had obliterated a minivan that tried to cut it off. Unfortunately the way the cabbie decided to pass was by driving into oncoming traffic.
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Those things are menaces to society!
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Saw this on my way home today. Two of the vintage streetcars on Market street making a sandwich out of an SUV. Looks like somone forgot the law of gross tonage.
Check out the article about the crash on SF Gate (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/04/BANT193OJL.DTL).
At the height of Monday's evening commute, a historic F-line streetcar rear-ended an SUV, pushing it into the back of another F-line streetcar stopped for traffic. Witnesses said the driver of the first streetcar, Lonny Butler, was distracted.
Those things are menaces to society!
The streetcar, the minivan or the cab? Whichever, I agree.
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They just passed a law banning cell phone use which I thought was covered under a previous law that prohibited doing anything with your hands other than driving.
But since that subway accident in, I think DC and there's been some in the Boston area, the local news is all over stuff like this. That was a good picture.
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They just passed a law banning cell phone use which I thought was covered under a previous law that prohibited doing anything with your hands other than driving.
But since that subway accident in, I think DC and there's been some in the Boston area, the local news is all over stuff like this. That was a good picture.
We already have that law here. You need to use some sort of hands free. However I still see many people on their phones while driving. Even I'm guilty some times. I don't like the hands free device that I got.
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That's shit.
If you're talking on the phone while driving and fuck up because you're on the phone, it's not because you're holding the phone, it's because you're giving the conversation some of your concentration and focus that should be reserved for driving. Anybody who fucks up because they ARE holding a phone, should never take their hands off the wheel. They probably shouldn't even be driving.
No offense to one-handed individuals. This statement wasn't meant for you.
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We already have that law here. You need to use some sort of hands free. However I still see many people on their phones while driving. Even I'm guilty some times. I don't like the hands free device that I got.
California passed a no hand held cell while driving law. Everyone ignores it, I've seen cops driving their squad car while chatting on their cell phone. Of course, that's San Francisco cops and they would just as soon shoot you as look at you.
This year we passed another law, no texting while driving... because people are just that fucking stupid.
I figure it will be like drunk driving, in Monterey no one thinks twice about drunk driving. We were down a couple weekends ago and a restaurant offered to put Throbble's Bloody Mary into a to-go cup.
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I figure it will be like drunk driving, in Monterey no one thinks twice about drunk driving. We were down a couple weekends ago and a restaurant offered to put Throbble's Bloody Mary into a to-go cup.
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haha that's a good one.
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haha that's a good one.
I think it's Louisiana which has the open container law. You can get a bloody mary at a drive thru.
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We have state run liquor stores and beer is sold from like 6:30 to 11:30 in NH but I've gone down south and used the drive-thru liquor stores.
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This may only be funny to people that live in San Francisco:
Oakland! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzkoeyhAAdk)
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http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Fraud+probe+hits+Recycled+Percussion+drummer&articleId=e69875a8-d2d0-46d3-b96d-5233987fdaad
So these guys played for our high school when I was a freshman, some ten years ago and I remember they played out side a bathroom at the county fair that same year. Few years ago I use to hang out in the mills downtown and partied with one of their roadies that sets up their equipment. Their studio is still in that mill. It's always weird seeing people from this area in national news and events.
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Hang em!
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So these guys played for our high school when I was a freshman, some ten years ago and I remember they played out side a bathroom at the county fair that same year. Few years ago I use to hang out in the mills downtown and partied with one of their roadies that sets up their equipment. Their studio is still in that mill. It's always weird seeing people from this area in national news and events.
It's super weird, a few years back I went to visit my family for Thanksgiving and they had saved a newspaper with an article about how my best friend from high school was sent to prison for torching $3 Million worth of national forest.
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Woot I can finally post here!!
So hearing tire screeching outside my place is nothing new because many times people don't notice the red light at the corner until it's too late. However today when I heard it I knew that it was gonna end ugly and sure enough 'bang' accident. I go to the window to see how bad and not within 10 seconds do I see half a dozen provincial and municipal cops surround the crashed car.
Ok this is interesting. Once I saw the cops approach the vehicle guns blazing I thought for a moment that Osama Bin Laden was in the drivers seat. Who ever it was he had lots of heat on him as cop car after cop started to make my street look more like a police drive-in theater.
The man inside was quickly thrown to the ground, tackle and hand-cuffed in a matter of probably 1 minute. I didn't have time to snap pictures of the actual arrest. He was whisked away in an SQ car.
The plates of the vehicle look like Vermont plates. So he's probably American, I didn't notice any FBI or RCMP however.
See the pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=109578&id=509397554&l=6065311743
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Ok this is interesting. Once I saw the cops approach the vehicle guns blazing I thought for a moment that Osama Bin Laden was in the drivers seat. Who ever it was he had lots of heat on him as cop car after cop started to make my street look more like a police drive-in theater.
The man inside was quickly thrown to the ground, tackle and hand-cuffed in a matter of probably 1 minute. I didn't have time to snap pictures of the actual arrest. He was whisked away in an SQ car.
OK, you do know that "guns blazing" means they were firing their guns? I was surprised to see that he was taken alive after there were guns blazing.
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ya ya. Brandishing their guns. Literary license!
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When ever I think of Canadian police I think of Kids in the Hall skits. So comical oh so comical.
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When ever I think of Canadian police I think of Kids in the Hall skits. So comical oh so comical.
I bet the guy who was being chased was hoping for whatever you are remembering. Too bad for him, he fought the law and the law won!
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I bet the guy who was being chased was hoping for whatever you are remembering. Too bad for him, he fought the law and the law won!
LOLOLOLOL :D
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A friend's neighborhood is close enough right? But anyway in the spirit of 420 (http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Pot+protest+fills+Keene+square+again&articleId=75234ecb-7312-47b3-a530-71e8640e3635)
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A friend's neighborhood is close enough right? But anyway in the spirit of 420 (http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Pot+protest+fills+Keene+square+again&articleId=75234ecb-7312-47b3-a530-71e8640e3635)
Sweet, the weird thing about San Francisco is when we hold a pot rally it doesn't seem any different than any other day in SF.
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Sweet, the weird thing about San Francisco is when we hold a pot rally it doesn't seem any different than any other day in SF.
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True, we just give those events funny names like, The Haight Street Fair, and so forth.
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http://www.fortressmanchester.com/home/2009/10/2/go-elsewhere-minority-youth.html
An alderman thinks there's a correlation between kids and young men playing basketball and johns driving around looking for hookers. And as far as complaints about the noise, though a small city, it's still a city.
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I was having lunch in a restaurant today when the sky decided to open up and deluge the city. I was stuck for almost two hours.
Here is some video of the flood taken a few blocks from where I was: SF Flood (http://www.twitvid.com/6DF88)
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EDIT: Heh, just saw some nice footage of Throbble's office getting flooded, the skylight in the kitchen leaked and water came in under the doors.
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I was having lunch in a restaurant today when the sky decided to open up and deluge the city. I was stuck for almost two hours.
Here is some video of the flood taken a few blocks from where I was: SF Flood (http://www.twitvid.com/6DF88)
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Holy crap. How long was it raining to produce that kind of flooding??
Reminds me of the year a supercell rolled through Montreal in 1987 dumping over 100mm of water in under and hour. Here's a photo of one of the major expressways. It's below ground so highly susceptible to the flooding.
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It did a good dump in San Leandro fro about an hour but no flooding. Got stuckj on the muni going home for 45 minutes though because of it.
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Holy crap. How long was it raining to produce that kind of flooding??
I would say the full blast lasted about an hour. Apparently 20 min of torrential downpour is enough to start a backup in the city's drainage system. Luckily I was at the top of Russian Hill when it happened and we live on a steep incline.
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It's been about 20 degrees colder than normal here. We had snow flurries the other day and if you caught the Pats/Oilers game you know what I'm talking about
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It's been about 20 degrees colder than normal here. We had snow flurries the other day and if you caught the Pats/Oilers game you know what I'm talking about
Al Gore must be proud.
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Two murders in two days! One two blocks from where I used to live the other 4 blocks away, one block from my friends house! I think our block is half of a New York block.
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Some crazy guy in a red mini van is trying to abduct little children around my neighborhood. So far it appears he's been unsuccessful.
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Did I ever mention I live in the country? My stories would generally consist of: "Dog got hit by a car." "A cat got trampled by a cow." Apart from that, it is truly uneventful. Just the way I like it.
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Did I ever mention I live in the country? My stories would generally consist of: "Dog got hit by a car." "A cat got trampled by a cow." Apart from that, it is truly uneventful. Just the way I like it.
You say that but a few weeks ago a woman was murdered in her country side home.
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Did I ever mention I live in the country? My stories would generally consist of: "Dog got hit by a car." "A cat got trampled by a cow." Apart from that, it is truly uneventful. Just the way I like it.
Where abouts do you live?
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You say that but a few weeks ago a woman was murdered in her country side home.
And in the 20+ years we've lived here... no murders. Sorry to disappoint you. Occasional natural disasters I guess... but it's always outside our neighborhood... thankfully enough.
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Got a double shot today. A 4 pointer at 2:40 then a 3.9 at about 8:20. Whee! Free ride for all!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/San_Francisco.html
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Got a double shot today. A 4 pointer at 2:40 then a 3.9 at about 8:20. Whee! Free ride for all!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/San_Francisco.html
Yeah, those are the fun ones. Added some realism to a battle in Deus Ex: Human Revolution that Throbble was playing at the time. Turned on the radio to a local station (KCBS) and it was like:
Host 1: "So, to repeat we just had an earthquake. No information on the magnitude or location yet but we felt it here in downtown San Francisco. How did it feel to you Mary? At first I thought it was a truck going by outside."
Host 2: "Well Bob, I'd say it did feel just like a truck going by outside. Let's take some calls from out listeners."
Caller 1: "Hi, I live in Hayes Valley and I definitely felt it. At first I thought it may just be a truck going by."
Caller 2: "I didn't even know it was an earthquake until someone told me."
Caller 3: "Yeah, I work in downtown San Francisco and I didn't feel anything."
Hilarious!
Today I'm going to walk around and make fun of all the Euro-trash tourists exaggerating the severity of the quake. Good times.
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Yeah, SF is mostly on a big hunk of rock which absorbs the shakes. Now that I'm in east bay where the bedrock is below a lot more loose dirt it had more of an effect. They actually gave off a good bang like Hulk gave your house an annoyed punch.
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Both Throbble and I noticed a significant increase in helicopter traffic just now even through we're in relatively different parts of the city and then we found out this was happening:
Occupy Protesters Swarm Bank Lobby During Downtown SF March (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/11/16/occupy-protesters-march-in-downtown-san-francisco-to-protest-education-cuts/)
That's about 10 blocks from where we live.
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Nice. There's an Occupy Montreal, downtown here but it's just an excuse for people to pitch tents and do nothing.
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Nice. There's an Occupy Montreal, downtown here but it's just an excuse for people to pitch tents and do nothing.
First, you said, "pitch tents". (Tee hee!)
Second, I got a question for you. Is your online name "Mo" because you live in Montreal?
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Second, I got a question for you. Is your online name "Mo" because you live in Montreal?
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lol no. Nice catch though.
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Suspect Shot In Gun Battle With San Francisco Police (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/12/14/shooting-closes-streets-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin/)
December 14, 2011 3:30 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF)
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It's been awhile since anything really exciting happened in my neighborhood but today made up for it (the first one is 3 blocks from my apartment):
Crane Falls, Damages Cars In San Francisco's Tenderloin (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/08/03/crane-falls-closes-san-francisco-tenderloin-intersection/)
Car sandwiched between Muni vehicles (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Car-sandwiched-between-Muni-vehicles-3761309.php)
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Car sandwiched between Muni vehicles (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Car-sandwiched-between-Muni-vehicles-3761309.php)
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Yet again someone forgot the law of gross tonnage. I posted the same before.
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So, about a month ago (Monday 3/4/13 to be exact) I was on my way to my job when the train stopped and told us all to get off because there was police activity a couple stops ahead. Turned out to be a fatal shooting right near the train stop (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/03/04/1-injured-in-sf-bayview-district-shooting-suspect-arrested/). Luckily I got a ride from my boss.
Then, on Wednesday (3/6/13) I got stopped a block away from my work by these guys who were dealing with a hostage situation at a marijuana hydroponics farm:
(http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q387/CEP420/IMAG0115_zps1968c127.jpg)
So, yeah, that's what's happening in my work neighborhood. Makes my home neighborhood (the Tenderloin) look like Disney Land.
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Sounds like Baltimore I see when I watch The Wire
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A controlled burn in Ft Ord today. Though considering the amount of smoke all that brush sent up one has to wonder. Seems someone did not get the memo about "Spare the Air Day".
http://www.kionrightnow.com/story/23686410/prescribed-burn-in-fort-ord-underway
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Can't enlarge it for some reason (Mo) but I downloaded it to get a better look. That's a big fucking fire but most of Ft. Ord is back-woods training areas so I'm not surprised that it became overgrown since the base's closure. No more soldiers around to hack the shit out of it with machetes.
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Enlarged fine for me.
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Enlarged fine for me.
Working for me now too. Yesterday I was getting the broken image icon when I clicked on the pic to enlarge.
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As Throbble and I walked up to our local bar/restaurant for our Saturday brunch we noticed something unusual. We got to watch quite a show while we ate and drank our afternoon away:
http://news.kron4.com/news/happening-now-fbi-conducting-a-criminal-investigation-at-polk-and-jackson-streets/
Pics from my phone:
(http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q387/CEP420/SFFBIDrama153114_zpse67e0680.jpg)
(The guy on the right in the camouflage pants and olive green bullet proof vest is FBI.)
(http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q387/CEP420/SFFBIDrama253114_zpsd907e433.jpg)
(http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q387/CEP420/SFFBIDrama353114_zps80498167.jpg)
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Update to all the drama that went down yesterday. The guy the FBI were after got away!
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/06/01/fbi-seeks-armed-dangerous-suspect-hazmat-san-francisco-apartment-search/
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Yikes. Don't go over the GG for a while :)
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Yikes. Don't go over the GG for a while :)
They got the guy a few days later. Turns out he had bomb making material in his apartment (there is a Radio Shack and a hardware store on the same block) and he was trying to buy toxic substances from torrent sites using bitcoin. The FBI were back on the scene Thursday when I went for lunch. The suspect was pretty well known at the restaurant but I don't think I ever met him.
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A little old but these guys were fighting outside my apartment behind the 7 Eleven on Main St. (they woke me) then they got held up in an apartment near a friend of mine.
http://www.wmur.com/news/manchester-police-on-scene-of-standoff/26301892#!bag3oh
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Biggest earthquake since the Loma Prieta quake 25 years ago hit Northern California around 3:20 am this morning. Even though it was centered around Napa it rocked San Francisco pretty hard around 3:30 am (waking Throbble and me up of course).
http://abcnews.go.com/US/northern-california-struck-60-magnitude-earthquake/story?id=25101008
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Heard about that. Hope everyone is ok!
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Heard about that. Hope everyone is ok!
Up in Napa some homes burned down because of broken gas lines. There were a bunch of minor injuries and a kid was in serious condition after the fireplace he was sleeping next to fell on him. As far as I know there was no damage and no injuries in the San Francisco bay area. Most of the people I've talked to slept right through it.
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