Photo: Beauty and the Beast on Muni
Bluto pondering why he killed Popeye. Olive Oyl writing a grief letter to Wimpy. All of this aboard our favorite transit system.
Via bleu on Tumblr.
Five Muni Moments This Week
Five Muni moments captured on Twitter this week include:
- A woman who freaking pushed a kid to get a seat, then proceeded to sit in split coffee
- A clown on the bus, no bigs
- A man who (get this!) ran to the bus stop, brandished a styrofoam cup, peed in it, dumped it in the bushes, and boarded—he kept the cup
- A Muni rider lamenting arguments in languages she does not speak
- A Muni rider who did their fellow passengers a favor by spraying perfume on a “bum.”
This week’s Muni moments are brought to you with love by @loveoz13, @leximharvey, @gowestyoungtech, @goldfine, and @Tawana721. Remember to follow @munidiaries and share your whacky Muni tweets with the rest of us.
Transit News: Muni tunnels, BART fare hikes, free Muni for youth, strollers on Muni
Photo by chris.chabot
- Muni tunnels still have no cell service (SFGate)
- Muni’s “Garbage Bag Bus” Breaks Down (SF Weekly)
- Central Subway: Muni’s Drilling Plan Strains Credulity (SF Weekly)
- Free Muni for San Francisco youths kicks off today (SF Examiner)
- BART Board dedicates inflation-based fare increases to new trains; OKs demand-based parking (BART.gov)
- Muni Train Door Ripped From Hinges; No Passengers Hurt (CBS Bay Area)
- Babies in strollers allowed on Muni buses starting today (SFGate)
- New D4 Supervisor Katy Tang: Curbing Muni Switchbacks a Top Priority (Streetsblog SF)
Delicious Muni Stories, Live This Saturday!
We are counting down the minutes until Saturday night when we present some deliciously wacky Muni tales at the Elbo Room! We’ve added our favorite Muni cartoonist Mike Capozzola to our lineup, and of course gift certificates to The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen and Southpaw BBQ for brave audience storytellers. And you’ll be there for the second showdown of our Muni Haiku Battle.
We’ll have tickets at the door if you don’t have an advanced ticket already.
Storytellers:
Mike Capozzola, cartoonist and pro Muni rider
Johnny Funcheap, master of frugal living
James Nestor, writer and reigning Muni Haiku champion
Anna Pulley, sex/relationship columnist and Muni haiku ninja
Kelly Beardsley, BART operator
Richie Nakano, chef at Hapa Ramen
Lucky Jesus unplugged!
Muni Haiku Battle is inspired by Dirty Haiku Battle, presented by our favorite Oakland show, Tourettes Without Regrets (first Thursday of every month at the Oakland Metro). You should definitely check it out every month. Like, seriously.
Details:
Muni Diaries Live
Saturday, March 2 at the Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St. stations
Get your tickets online soon, as Muni Diaries Live is known to sell out. And with this lineup? Yeah!
Facebook event page (tell your friends, yo!)
Event banner by kick-ass kid, Craig Fowler Design
Chilean NSFW Bus Video: Is This the XXX Line?
Ed. note: In case you missed it in the headline, watch the video above at your own discretion. NSFW and all that.
In what has to be one of the more embarrassing on-the-job goofs, in late January a bus driver in Chile inadvertently aired a porn movie on the onboard video screens on his bus. A 40-second clip of the blunder, complete with some pretty amusing background laughter from passengers of the Santiago to Talagante-bound bus, has since gone viral.
Hmm, we’ve ridden some pretty dirty buses in our time. But not that kind of dirty.
But you don’t know what’s on the floor of Muni!
Photo: Silver Tusk
@tomcarmony found some next-level sleeping on Muni Metro, and we wish there was a photo to go with his evocative description and, um, how-to:
I never realized you could just lay down on the floor of a Muni train, across the full width of the car, and just go to sleep. Good to know!
Aisle-horizontal is brave, though arguably more polite than, oh, taking up seats. Where do they think they are, Japanese transit?