Weekend photos
These lovely images were added to the BART Photos Flickr group this week, among others. Enjoy them, and your scorching-hot weekend.
Photo by greenkozi
Photo by W0nginat0r
Photo by moppet65535
Category: BART
Oh, the things you’ll find (in BART’s lost-and-found)
Photo by Flickr user An Unreliable Witness
SF Weekly‘s Joe Eskenazi calls the BART transportation administrative specialist (read: lost-and-found clerk) to see what kinds of interesting things people leave on the train. He gets quite a list, including, not least of all, prosthetic limbs.
BART ‘deal’
Photo by Flickr user wentzxxpete
From BART rider Amy:
I’m pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal on BART the other morning. This guy was measuring out some white powder sitting in his seat on BART and held up a baggie for this other guy that appeared to have pot in it. I considered it all very weird as BART cars have cameras in them.
No photo, unfortunately. It was around 9:40 or so. Late for work, per usual. The guy who appeared to be the buyer was wearing a puffy yellow sports jacket. I remember because I saw him walking into the 16th Street BART and thought, “what a ridiculous yellow puffy jacket.” He was sitting in one seat turned around backward talking to the other guy with the drugs who was in the seat behind him.
What have you seen on BART lately? Tell us: bartdiaries@gmail.com
Playboy bunnies and pleasure bots
The following came to our inbox from BART rider Mac:
For anyone who didn’t know (me included), you can follow dispatches from BART’s “virtual water cooler” on Twitter. (I took this photo on BART on Sunday.) The great thing about Twitter is how confusing it has been for so many people. And in tech-savvy Bay Area, it’s just not okay to admit to not getting it. Which is what makes this ad so great. It throws gasoline on the Twitter confusion fire. What do young girls dressed in feather boas and bunny ears or shiny silver robot bustiers (or is it a corset?) have to do with riding the subway? Awww, come on guys. It’s so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. It’s all about ball bearings these days. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads, and start tweeting. The Playboy bunnies and pleasure bots will be here any minute.
Don’t be this guy. Ever.
It’s really too bad that BART nixed its whole “Who’s the biggest asshole on BART” contest, or whatever it was, because this guy could be a contender.
He was on a super-crowded SFO Airport-bound train, not only hogging both halves of the disabled seat but pretending to be asleep so nobody could oust him. How do I know he was pretending? He did finally relinquish half the seat when a woman asked him to, and she didn’t have to wake him up to get the job done.
Seriously, people. If you sit down in one of these seats, and you are not disabled, elderly, pregnant, etc., it is not yours to keep. It’s your responsibility to keep an eye out for the folks who DO need these seats, and to make sure you give it up if someone needier boards the train. In fact, it’s against the law NOT to.
Looks like I’m not the only one peeved about this.
— Beth W.
* originally posted 2.4.09 at Muni Diaries.
Weekend Photos
While we await the flood of BART stories that is sure to overtake us at any moment now (;)), we’re going to treat Friday the same way we do over at Muni Diaries: with a collection of some of our favorite photos from the BART Photos Flickr pool. Enjoy, and have a safe weekend.
*Remember that Monday marks the first day of a schedule adjustment for BART.
Photo by Flickr user GrimReynard
Photo by Flickr user Troy McClure SF
Photo by Flickr user echoes71
Photo by Flickr user napolifd
Photo by Flickr user moppet65535
Photo by Flickr user itsolivia
Want your photos included in the next roundup, or anywhere on BART Diaries? Tag them to the BART Photos group on Flickr, and we’ll consider it.