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Mari spotted this four-legged friend on the 10-Townsend the other morning. Oddly, the dog doesn’t appear to magically be making everyone around it happy. We’re scratching our heads.
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Photo by mike dillon
Photo by Jeff Rizzo
It didn’t take new Muni rider Mari long to experience the underbelly of San Francisco transit.
At about 7th Street and Mission Street at 5:45 PM on a weekday, the bus driver stopped to pick up a few passengers. Everyone’s attention turned to the back door where a middle-aged gentleman was grasping with all his might to get on the bus. Behind him is another middle-aged gentleman in a wheelchair grabbing on to the other man’s jacket while yelling, “Oh, no you don’t, you are not running away from me!” and other expletives while punching and pulling the man trying to get on the bus.
The bus driver says nothing, of course. We are stopped and us passengers look back and forth at each other just wanting to get to our destinations. A teenage boy starts to cheer them on: “kick his a**, old man!” while blocking the back door.
Finally, the bus driver says, “Move away from back door,” but the teenager continues to taunt and cheer on the old men who are punching each other on the sidewalk now. Passersby yell, “Stop, stop!” to the stronger man doing most of the punching.
Finally, my patience has dwindled and I say in a very loud voice to the teenager, “Move out of the way! We need to go!” The teenager rolls his eyes at me and slowly walks off the bus. Finally, we are able to drive away.
Just another day on Muni…
At least the teenager got off the bus, right?
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Image: Cable Car Guy
Read all about the amazing feat of engineering that was the Fillmore Hill Counterbalance over on Muni Time Capsule.
Photo by Christian Muñoz
Sorry we haven’t posted an open thread in a few weeks. Too much good stuff was going on, and it slipped our minds.
Here’s your chance to sound off, Muni riders. What’s on your mind?
Update: Per @I_R_M_E_: The photo was taken “near Dogpatch off 3rd St way back in 2001. Unfortunately, All the beautiful old Muni cars were cleared and who knows what happened to them. I’ll post more pics soon.” We’ll be sure to post these additional photos when we see them.
Original post:
Still, I’d be stoked to get on board this monster. It could be as late/wreaking of urine/stop-starty as it wanted to be, looking like this.
Photo by @I_R_M_E_ via tumblr.
Other great Muni graffiti we’ve found over the years:
Anonymous logo on Muni bus stop shelter
Muni graffiti a bygone era?
Where Banksy meets Caltrain
Paint pen splotch/trees