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If partygoers blowing bubbles on the bus on New Year’s Eve doesn’t make you happy, does it mean that you’re dead inside? These revelers look like they had a blast. Hope no one got hurt (or too annoyed).
Via @erinfrey.
So, did you take advantage of Muni’s free service on Monday night? How was it?
Photo by davitydave
Free Muni as in ride for free, not Free Muni like Free Willy (that’s the topic worthy of its own post).
Beginning at 8 p.m. this evening, you can ride Muni for no charge to your next alcohol-addled festivities. Free rides continue until 6 a.m. Muni will keep Metro trains running until 4 a.m., and will increase its overnight Owl service.
So go ahead, get sloshy! Muni’s got your back!
Also, too: BART will run until 3 a.m. tonight. But you’ll have to pay.
You gotta get from point A to point B, but on Muni, that trip can be just a little…weird. Or totally WTF. Here are the top 10 WTF moments on Muni, as reported by Muni Diaries readers like you.
10. Somebody went number two on the 22, and the photo above tells me that nobody opened a window! So this is why everybody wears a scarf.
9. Goats at the Muni yard. No bigs, right?
Photo by Tony Ta
8. I mean “WTF” with the utmost respect, sir Crocodile King. This gentleman’s outfit beats any skinny jeans and plaid shirt situation you see around in the city.
Photo via Reddit
7. Everybody wants to know: who is this handsome accordion player?
6. Parenting is made even more difficult when your seatmate is trying to make a drink on the bus. Best comment: “Lesson to be learned here, children: always pour your liquor into your mixer, never the other way around…”
5. Punk rock cat is more punk rock than all y’alls.
4. Somebody left a pleasant little Easter surprise on the bus. How very kind!
3. Hey, who brought 100 lbs of rice on the bus? Best comment: “I once saw Ozzy Osbourne trying to bring live bats home from Chinatown and when the driver said no livestock on the bus, Ozzy bit their heads off so they were dead and everything was cool.”
2. Remember the slew of fake ads on Muni earlier this year that started out funny but turned sophomoric? (Bi-rite and Tartine were also targets of the fake advertisements).
Photo by @dougrobbin
1. The number one WTF Muni moment of 2012 has to go to the Giants World Series win, which turned into “let’s destroy some property” night.
Photo by Mike Hendrickson
This list, of course, does not include your daily “Where is my bus” moments. I’m hoping for more “pot Easter Egg” and fewer “burn the bus” kinds of Muni moments next year. What do you say?
Photo by Jeremy W.
So, the San Francisco Giants baseball team won the top prize in professional baseball in the year that ends today. What’s that got to do with Muni? Clearly, you just came out of your coma, so we’ll go easy on you.
The most-viewed post of 2012 on Muni Diaries was “Giants Win World Series! SF Trashes Muni!”. Of course it was. I mean, what else happened this year? Fer srs.
Of course, it wasn’t the baseball game itself, nor the players or fans, who got the most pageviews on this site. It was, sadly, the wanton destruction of a Muni bus, and the story of one guy who tried to stop the madness.
Photo by Shawn Clover
Today marks 100 years since the Municipal Railway became San Francisco’s official public transportation. To further commemorate this anniversary (see our 100 Stories, 100 Days Muni Centennial feature here), we decided to dig up the most popular tweeple of that 1912 day, and see what they had to say. You’re welcome.
“If this system lasts 20 years, it’ll be a miracle.” –@RolphtheMolph (SF Mayor James Rolph)
“I’m thinking, ‘He hopped aboard the streetcar, shed his waistcost, and began his getaway.'” –@gumshoewriter (Dashiell Hammett)
“Can you put in a line that runs up to my home in Sonoma? kthx.” –@heyimfromhere (Jack London)
“Hey mom, can I do a charcoal rubbing of this streetcar?” @imanseladamsyrnot (Ansel Adams)
Spotted On The Pittsburg/Baypoint Train by rider Chris F:
“New FART Seats Arriving Weekly! Say, are those BART, or FART seats? What’s wrong with the farted-up ones we have, already?”
Oh, the wonders you can do with a sharpie.
More creative sign alterations: