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Two 38-Geary buses have caught on fire this week, and we’ve got new photos of the second charred bus. Courtesy of the anonymous blogger at Bus Driver Stories, you can see detail damages on the bus. Scary.
Meanwhile, some details of the bus fires from earlier today.
More photos this way: Read more
Photo by Gothamist
Living in a big city, you come into contact with plenty of people you might describe as sharks. But you don’t exactly expect to see the real thing on a subway.
That’s exactly what happened in New York City earlier this week when subway riders found a small shark left upside down beneath a seat. Later in the day, photos of the shark surfaced on Gothamist, upright, and posing with a transit pass, Red Bull, and cigarette.
We don’t expect to see any sharks on Bay Area transit anytime soon, but it made us wonder: Does this trump a live chicken on Muni?
Just in time for Shark Week, too.
Bummer, cuz, uh, you know, that there. Yeah. Bummer. Unless the pill box just wanted to go on an excursion.
It’s no ear of corn or lonely snack. But still.
Via BloodRedOcean.
Photo by frankfarm
To answer this question:
friend just posted a pic on facebook of a MUNI bus on fire at Geary & 27th. didn't this happen last week too? @munidiaries
— molls (@mollyunravel) August 8, 2013
Yes. A 38-Geary caught fire in the Outer Richmond almost exactly a week ago. The 38-Geary (and its zippy express sibs) are a great many things (drunk tank, most recently) but flammable wasn’t on the list until now. Read more
So much wisdom and so many soul-wrenching dilemmas can be found on the seats of your bus. Here’s the latest, via Aileen.
“Why don’t they try to save me?”
Other bus-seat gems:
“Pull up your pants”
“God must be so embarrassed”
“Respect for other peoples [sic] rights is peace”