Fish Torture and Piscicide on Muni

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You might want to finish your coffee cake. Muni rider Erica wants to tell you a story.

A guy got onto the bus with a fishing pole and a bucket of fish. Unbeknownst to us passengers, some of the fish were still alive. He proceeded to take fish from the bucket, look at them, talk to them and unfortunately, lose control of them when they wriggled from his grasp. One of them hit me in the foot when it skidded across the floor. He also pulled fish from the bucket and then dropped them back in, splashing a few of us with fish water. I moved after that. He continued to torture the poor fish and menace the passengers while the driver acted like nothing was happening.

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Category: WTF: Weirdness on Muni

Pardon me, you left something behind on BART

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Clipping your fingernails on public transit* is a felony written directly into the U.S. Constitution. Seriously. Look it up.

We see complaints of this behavior perhaps more than any other complaints about Bay Area public transportation, and understandably so. But the other day, I was lucky enough to sit down on BART in a seat next to the clipped nails themselves. Just sitting there, telling me how civilized I am.

*File under: WHAT’S WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Category: BART, WTF: Weirdness on Muni

The story behind the 1980 Muni Metro Party

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We recently heard from Ken Maley, who helped organize the Muni Metro party we posted about in the summer of 2011. Here’s what Ken had to say about the planning and preparation for that party, which we’re bummed to have missed (hey! We were kids at that time, too!)

The late Jim Rivaldo, Dick Pabich, and I had lobbied Muni in 1979 to name the Castro Station after Harvey Milk. Harvey was a big supporter of Muni/public transportation. Muni told us stations weren’t named after people, but did agree to our alternative suggestion, which was the Harvey Milk Plaza and an event in the new stations.

A Harvey Milk Fund had been set up and when I learned that the Muni Metro was set to open in May/June 1980, I had the idea of having a party in the Castro station as a benefit for the MIlk Fund. Muni was very cooperative, and when they took me into the station, I realized that it would be too expensive–and unrealistic given that the system was to open the next morning after the event, to install a cover over the rails between the IN and OUTBOUND platforms. One of the Muni staff said I should use a station that had a center loading platform and the first one up the line was Van Ness station.

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Weekend Photos: First of the Year

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Photo by Thomas Hawk

Somehow, under Thomas Hawk’s lens, the Stockton tunnel looks cleaner, shinier, and more mysterious. Today’s weekend photos also feature a cozy bear and a couple of well-dressed gentlemen.

A few nights ago I was walking around Chinatown and saw a Muni driver get out of the bus at a red light with a teenager who must have been a tourist. The driver looked out for traffic at the intersection so the kid could take a photo of the Transamerica building. Moments like this really make me happy to live here, and to share our site with everyone who rides the bus.

Enjoy the first batch of beautiful weekend photos of 2013!
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Controversial “Jihad” Ad Airs on Muni

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An ad campaign using the controversial word “jihad” has launched on Muni buses, and the reception has been mixed. The “My Jihad” ad campaign from the Council on American Islamic Relations first launched in Chicago in December, and was started partly because of an earlier “support Israel” bus ad campaign by Pamela Geller. The Council on American Islamic Relations says that the goal of the “My Jihad” campaign is to “share the proper meaning of jihad,” according to the CAIR’s official website.

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