From today’s Ingleside Station SFPD newsletter, though the incident likely happened sometime last week:
2:30 pm — Silver Ave. & Mission St. — Strong Arm Robbery
A 15 year old Portola District male was set upon and beaten by three robbers who broke his jaw and took his iPod. A Muni bus driver stopped the assault and the perpetrators fled. The robbers were described as: black males aged 16 to 18 years old, standing 5’9″ to 5’10″ tall, weighing 150 to 160 pounds. All were wearing black sweatshirts over dark jeans. One was wearing a black beanie hat, one was carrying a black back pack.
(Emphasis mine)
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We get more people standing up like that Muni bus driver and we’ll have a whole lot less of these types of absurd assaults. People need to stand with each other on this type of stupidity.
My thanks go out to the bus driver.
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Bravo.
Even though you don’t see them all the time, there are some pretty great muni drivers out there. This is especially true when you consider all the abuse some take and how crappy the job could be.
It seems like the drivers who are ok at their jobs, are friendly, and can speak fluent English usually end up driving the routes with lots of tourists while the rest of the city generally gets the other drivers.
I’m not sure if this is some kind of self-selection of good drivers being able to advance and choose more desirable routes or a policy of muni so as not to get tourists more comfortable.
It’s nice to hear about a good driver in a non-tourist area.
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