I was on an outbound 24 Bus this afternoon. Fairly empty. As we zig-zagged from 30th to Mission to Cortland, there seemed to be an agitated passenger bugging the driver. Well, that’s how it looked from the back of the bus where I couldn’t exactly hear the words the guy was saying.
He was yelling, “Hurry up!” presumably at the traffic in front of us, then he leaned across the driver and HONKED THE HORN. I thought (in a selfish muni-riding way) “Oh crap, now we’ll be delayed while the driver deals with this nut.”
Alas, I misread the situation. The nutty guy turned out to be a friend of the busdriver and he was just goofing around. OK! Friends of the driver can honk the horn, check. Also, he dialed a phone and handed it to the driver to talk on.
Here’s the driver on the phone:
Not like there’s anything he could hit around. Oh, wait. Is that a school bus right in front of us? Say…
Adjacent to that pic is one that has the other guy and the bus #, etc.
We thought we’d seen and heard it all. We’re continually amazed. If you’ve seen crazy (or mundane) shit on Muni lately, let us know.
Photos by peephole
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Oh man, what a great capture. Reminds me of when I videotaped that backrub. Did you file a CSR?
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peephole Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I twittered the info to @sf311, with the vehicle number, route and time of day and the pictures. They gave me a report #, but actually I have no idea what one does with that. However, this morning, Muni apparently issued a bulletin reminding drivers about cellphone rules.
It did seem like the driver finally noticed me taking pictures in the rear view mirror and stopped what he was doing and his friend got off the bus immediately. (Friend had a bike on the bus though, so possibly was just riding up the hill.)
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jeff Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
awesome! great that you tweeted @sf311. anyone else wanting to complain about bad operator behavior should do the same. and yes, SFMTA did reissue their rule to operators concerning a cellphone ban while operating vehicles. thanks for posting, and for contacting 311!
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This friend of the driver’s is a character: young guy projecting a particularly vanilla icean man about town vibe, often wearing a somewhat unlikely suit that is intended to suggest that he’s some kind of local “boss”. Pretends to know everyone in his vicinity, which is usually right where you caught him, between like 28th and 30th on Mission. Often speaks to anyone who can hear about having just “gotten out”. Actually jovial. Sometimes rides just a few blocks to, it seems, get in touch with his people. He’s like the ghetto Gavin.
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jeff Reply:
June 7th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
omg Will! “ghetto Gavin”! i think you just coined a new term! LOVE it!
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I have been trying to figure out who the hell this guy is or who he thinks he is. Somedays I sure he is an undercover muni cop, but other days he is some guy that likes to think he works with and knows these drivers.???? I have a friend of a firend who drives the 14 & 49 and have been wanting to know if she knows this guy.
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