Weekend Photos: Today’s Youth
Photo by David Lytle
Enjoy these photos and your weekend!
Photo by Dave Golden
Photo by thisguyrr
Photo by Jeremy Whiteman
Photo by Sergio Ruiz
Got Gold Spray Paint, Will Ride Muni
Photo by @TheJoWo
This is our second reported sighting of the metallic guys on Muni Diaries, if you recall.
Here’s Silver Man getting off of a long day of work, spotted by @genejo.
Transit News: Central Subway funds, BART tiny tickets, bad week for Muni
Photo by Cold Storage
- U.S. House bill might kill Central Subway funds (SF Examiner)
- BART’s Tiny Tickets make lasting change (City Insider)
- SF Puts Brakes on an App for Transit (The Bay Citizen)
- BART Comes Under Fire For Choosing Canadian Firm For New Cars (SF Appeal)
- Questions remain after death at Muni station (SF Examiner)
- Putting Muni back on the right track (SF Examiner)
- Muni’s Bad Luck Continues: N Judah Briefly Disrupted After Sunset Collision Thursday Morning (SF Appeal)
Muni Art Diary: Mural at 21st and Mission
Here’s a wider view for some context.
Funny, because it kinda looks like the LRV is emerging from West Portal, though that’s nowhere nearby. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve never seen people playing music on streets out there.
Also, it is still strange not hearing and seeing buses on Mission Street.
Other murals with Muni appearances: the dearly departed 15 bus; 52-Excelsior; a Muni bus in Clarion Alley; and a Sirron Norris gray Muni bus
Careful where you pee
You gotta go, you gotta go, sure. But when taking BART, you might want to reconsider peeing while down near the tracks. From Illinois:
An Indiana man died when he tried urinating on subway tracks Sunday night.
Zachary McKee, 27, died after falling on the electrically charged third rail at the South Boulevard Purple Line ‘L’ stop in Evanston, Ill., which he touched by climbing onto the tracks to relieve himself.
Ouch. Read the rest of the story at The Daily News.
Thx: Amy of Tiny Rides
Muni Rider Stabbed With a Fork
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The 23-year-old victim was sitting on the bus near 16th Street and Potrero Avenue just before 5 p.m. when a 51-year-old man sat down next to her and spread his legs wide, police Sgt. Daryl Fong said.
This made the woman uncomfortable, so she got up and stood next to the back door to get off at the next stop, Fong said.
The suspect got up and began yelling at her. The two engaged in an argument before the bus stopped in the 2100 block of 16th Street, Fong said. The suspect pushed past her to get off the bus. She pushed back, and he allegedly turned around and stabbed her in the hand with a fork before fleeing the scene.
Wait, so the seat hog (otherwise known as a mansitter) happened to have a dinner fork with him? Is a dinner fork the new self defense weapon?
This is not the first cutlery-related incident on Muni, mind you. Last year two drunk man got into it on Muni and one of them stabbed the other with a dinner fork. That particular trip ended in the hospital.
Look out for forks, folks.