Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
If you haven’t already, stop everything you’re doing. Nothing could possibly be more important than this sleeping panda at the Muni stop. *LOL his bus just never arrived LOL*
I hereby nominate this panda to be the new San Francisco Panda, now that that “other guy” bailed down (boo!!!!)
h/t Muni rider Dan: “Out of luck panda sleeping at bus stop. In need of a hug… #savethepandas”
Yeah, BART, why so negative?
h/t BART rider Zoe: “I work with the coolest people! @mollyampersand made #BART signs that are positive & fun. @SFBART, what do you think?”
Photo by Shawn Clover
Several of you have pointed us to the latest in a series of controversial ads on Muni. This one seems to jump the provocation shark, as it were. They feature Hitler (literally Hitler!) talking with, well, does it really even matter who Hitler is talking with? Aren’t all people who talked with Hitler auto-evil?
KTVU has the story:
40 Muni buses and light rail vehicles began carrying a stark, black-and-white advertisement this past weekend that equates Islam with Nazism and featuring images of Palestinian Muslim leader Haj Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler.
In all caps, the ad blares, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Quran.”
A New York-based blogger paid for the ads in the wake of recent terrorism in Paris.
“People need to understand that this hatred is a religious imperative,” said American Freedom Defense Initiative President Pamela Geller. “We feel that this message is critical in light of what happened in Paris, the slaughter of four Jewish people at a kosher supermarket because they were Jewish.”
So, yeah. Where do you stand on these “ads”? I mean, as ads, what exactly are they trying to sell?
Photo by KTVU
You know the old saying: When Muni gives you strange cargo, take a “selfie” in a mirror and share it with the Twitterverse.
h/t Muni rider Christina.
What did you expect, that a new year would somehow change the very essence of what it means to ride Muni? Yer too cute.
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Photo by Lynn Friedman.