SFPD Releases Video of Bicyclist Attacking Muni Station Agent

The San Francisco Police Department released this video of a bicyclist who attacked a Muni station agent. This happened at the Van Ness station when the agent told said bicyclist that he couldn’t take his bike on the train.

From SFGate:

The assault happened Oct. 10 around 7:40 p.m. after the bicyclist tried to pass through the fare gates at the station with his bike, police said.

The station agent on duty, a 55-year-old man, told the bicyclist he could not bring his bike into the station, but the man ignored him, lifted his bike over the railing and jumped over the railing himself.

The station agent suffered serious injuries from blows to his head and has not been able to return to work, SFGate reports. The San Francisco Police Department website has two more closeup photos of the assailant from the surveillance video.

From the SFPD: Anyone with information is asked to contact S.F.P.D. Muni Task Force at (415) 832-8338 or the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or text-a-tip to TIP411, and begin the text with SFPD.

Man struck and killed by Muni near the Montgomery station


Photo by @zackharrison117

A man was struck and killed by a Muni Metro train near the Montgomery station, SFGate reports. Expect delays all over the Muni Metro system this morning. In this photo by @zackharrison117 on Twitter, a sizable crowd was waiting at Church and Duboce for the delayed train to go downtown. More from SFGate:

An inbound N-Judah train hit the man in the tunnel 700 feet west of the station platform shortly before 7:30 a.m.

Officials said it is unclear why the man was in the tunnel. He was declared dead at the scene, and the station will be closed until the medical examiner’s office arrives and conducts its investigation.

We’ll update this post as more details, including delay information, become available.

Vicious Beating on the 9-San Bruno After Giants Parade


Photo by Jeffrey

Just when you think we’ve had enough violent stories for the week, we received an account from Muni rider Robert, who witnessed a terrible beating on Wednesday after the Giants parade. Here’s an excerpt of his report.

This is not a fun or pretty story.

I was on the 9, going home after the Giants World Series parade and celebration shortly after 4 p.m. The bus was extremely crowded as expected and the driver kept telling everybody to step back, claiming that there was plenty of room in the back. He was mistaken. He had left the driver’s seat and went outside to direct or cajole the passengers who were boarding at the rear door when I was stepping into the bus from the front door. I paid the fare and walked to an open spot in the front half of the bus.

At a stop on Potrero, a young Hispanic couple stepped off the bus and were followed by a group of riders that numbered at least a dozen. The group of riders attacked the couple, who were shortly down on the sidewalk. [They] surrounded, kicked, and stomped on the prostrate couple in a frenzy of violence. Some of the riders recorded videos on their cellphones. Some people called for emergency assistance. When the beating had concluded, the man was bleeding from his mouth but didn’t seem seriously injured as he was able to get up from the sidewalk. Unfortunately, his lady friend was still down and convulsing. I saw a lot of blood on the sidewalk.

Some of the attackers actually re-entered the bus, expecting it to drive away from the scene. Only after they realized that the driver was waiting for police and ambulance did they exit the bus and disappear into the Potrero Avenue crowd. I remember one of the attackers who returned to the bus had red and white tassels woven into thin dreadlocks. I can’t forget the animated motion of the tassels as the attacker brutally stomped [on the couple].

The San Francisco Police Department summary of the incident reported that there were five suspects — one black man and four black women. The suspects had left the scene; the victims were taken to a local hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Scary stuff to add to this week’s list of bad news in light of the good baseball news. Be careful out there, everyone.

Video: Antwerp Rail Travelers Channel Their Inner Bond

Coke Zero (you know, the man’s diet drink?) put together this pretty ingenious promotion in conjunction with the release of the new James Bond movie, Skyfall. Travelers at an Atwerp train station were given the chance to be 007 and had 70 seconds to get to a designated platform and win movie tickets. Sounds easy, right? Well, not quite.

Some of the obstacles the amateur Bonds encounter:

  • workers moving a large sheet of glass
  • a toppled cart of oranges
  • escalator-hogging joggers
  • a crazy lady in a red dress

The video is quite funny but it begs the question … Could a contest like this ever be held here?

Video: Man Who Tried To Stop Muni Vandals Speaks Out


Video: ABC7

On Monday we told you about Simon, the man who got beaten up by rioters when he tried to stop them from vandalizing a Muni bus (his friends sent us photo of his beaten up face).

Simon told Muni Diaries:

It’s been a whirlwind couple of days but I just hope I’m the one with a black eye and not my city…I was not on the bus but in the vicinity of the offense. My friend Sarah saw what was going on and said something along the lines of, ‘This isn’t right!’ I agreed and took off running toward the bus. The last thing I remember is getting in between the offenders and the bus, shoving them away shouting ‘No. This is not what we do. We do not do this!’ And then: sucker punch, floor, kicking, blood, and my awesome friends getting me out of there.

In the above video, Simon is interviewed by ABC7’s Vic Lee about his experience.

Previously:

More Muni Vandals Still At Large


Photo by Mike Hendrickson

The San Francisco Police Department is still looking for vandals who smashed, burned, and trashed Muni buses Sunday night after the Giants won the World Series. Yesterday the police arrested one suspect who was photographed smashing the bus window with a barricade. But who is the man in the photo above, which we published on Monday?

This “bus wrecker,” as the San Francisco Chronicle calls him, is still at large and the police would like your help identifying him, according to the Chronicle story, which also has a zoomed-in photo of this man.


Photo via the San Francisco Chronicle and Susana Bates

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