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We heard from Muni rider Tim, who warned the world, “Riding the #SFmuni with all my classmates in our Halloween costumes …” He sent over photographic evidence, seen above and below.
And of course, your chauffeurs for the evening …
Photo by reedtarded
Got photos of great Halloween costumes? Share them here on Muni Diaries.
Previously: Halloween Costumes On The Go
Nate sent us video of passengers exiting an N-Judah streetcar out in the Sunset. Shortly after they deboarded, the overhead wire had its say, as seen around 0:48 above.
We sure hope everyone was okay.
Yes, yes, we know it was a vertical video. Get over it.
Photo by Susana Bates/Special to The Chronicle
After things got out of hand Sunday night, including the burning and other forms of destruction of Muni buses, some people started a Facebook campaign to ID the vandals
But Facebook commenters “got the wrong guy” because of a misfired joke. According to a Wired.com story, a San Francisco man named Tony Lukezic used a photo of one of the vandals as his Facebook profile picture because friends say he looked like the vandal. He thought it would all be a funny joke.
What isn’t too funny is that after he changed his Facebook profile picture, Facebook commenters threatened Lukezic, posting his phone number and threatening to turn him in to the cops.
Now that the police has arrested Gregory Tyler Graniss (aka, not the Facebook joker), investigators are still looking for other vandals who set a Muni bus on fire.
A Muni Diaries reader sent us a video of the bus being lit on fire Sunday evening.
According to KTVU, nine people have been charged with crimes related to Sunday night’s vandalism, and 36 people have been arrested.
The Giants post-World Series Win Riot on Muni Diaries:
Photos of Muni buses being trashed by rioters
Man gets beat up trying to “defend Muni” during riot
Video of a bus rider who wouldn’t riot
Photo by Keoki Seu
The Giants’ second World Series parade in three years starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. Here’s info on the parade from SFMTA:
The parade will begin on Wednesday at 11 a.m. from Market and Steuart streets, travel west on Market Street, turn right onto McAllister Street and proceed west to City Hall.
The parade route will be closed to traffic beginning at approximately 9:30 a.m. until the parade clears and the area has been swept.
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Fans are strongly encouraged to take public transportation including BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans, and ferries to this event as parking and traffic will be extremely difficult. For regional transit information please visit www.511.org. For Muni information please visit www.sfmta.com.
All Muni Metro trains will stop at Civic Center station for the celebration and Parade, as well as at Embarcadero, Montgomery and Powell stations for the parade. The SFMTA will schedule six additional Metro shuttles to supplement the existing Metro service.
The additional service will begin at approximately 10 a.m. and continue until the event clears at the Civic Center.
The following Muni lines and routes will be affected:
· California Cable Car
· Powell Hyde Cable Car
· Powell Mason Cable Car
· F Market and Wharves
· 2 Clement
· 3 Jackson
· 5 Fulton
· 6 Parnassus
· 8X Bayshore Express
· 9 San Bruno
· 9L San Bruno Limited
· 10 Townsend
· 12 Folsom-Pacific
· 14 Mission
· 14L Mission Limited
· 19 Polk
· 21 Hayes
· 27 Bryant
· 30 Stockton
· 31 Balboa
· 38 Geary
· 38L Geary Limited
· 45 Union-Stockton
· 71 Haight-Noriega
Motorists and transit riders should allow extra travel time as delays or detours are expected on Muni routes and lines not listed above.
Dear Abby: My husband is not what you’d call handsome. He’s middle aged, a little on the flabby side, and he’s losing his hair. But he’s a bus driver, and Abby, I don’t think you know how crazy some women are for bus drivers. It must be the uniform, because the women fall all over Bill as if he were a Marine captain or something. Bill says that most of the women on his run are mental cases. They have tried to tip him, give him their phone numbers, and they fight for the seat right behind the driver so they can blow on his neck. One lady even pinched him.
Should I ask Bill to get into some other line of work? Or should I let him stay on that bus with all those crazy women? THE DRIVER’S WIFE
Dear Wife: Men who meet the public (in uniform and out) will be tipped, tempted, and even pinched occasionally. Give him lots of love. And trust. If a man is happy at home, he won’t look left or right.
Hmm … are women mauling your flabby, balding yet freakin’ irresistible bus driver husband? Smother him with love.
This gets me thinking, not about harassing bus drivers, but of all those odd situations that come up when riding public transit. Not sure what to say to that guy taking up two bus seats, the stranger passed out and drooling on your shoulder, or the woman over sharing on her cell phone? What would Dear Abby say about that?
Email us your bus-riding dilemmas. We have more Dear Abby gems for you, and if you send us your own bus dilemma, and we’ll respond with our best etiquette advice. Just don’t ask us which fork to use.
