Circular logic at SFMTA Lost and Found

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SFMTA - Muni headquarters
Photo by Steve Rhodes

Muni Tattoo girl alerts us to this “funny if it weren’t also totally pathetic” story:

I lost my coin purse containing my Clipper and my ID a couple weeks ago, and yesterday I got a call from the SFMTA lost & found saying that someone had turned it in (bless their heart). The woman told me I would need a photo ID to collect my… PHOTO ID.

Say whatever you want about competency. I wanna be present when Muni Tattoo girl and whoever’s running the Lost and Found open up that wormhole.

Category: diaries, Funny: Muni LOLs

Muni Monsters!

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We spotted this on the first day of school for many children. How appropriate.

We got in touch with Aaron Hartline, the Pixar animator who draws, places, and photographs the monsters around town. Here’s what Aaron said:

Muni monsters was inspired by taking a Muni ride across town after the Outside Lands concert this past weekend. I like posting strange lil’ characters looking at people stuck in everyday day life. The idea of these Muni monsters trying to understand these weird humans and their everyday rituals makes me smile.

One more …

More monsters can be found at The Daily Postit and @TheDailyPostit.

Category: diaries, Photos

Update: Photo Gallery of Anonymous #OpBART Protest

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BART’s disruption of cell phone service last Thursday led to the hacking of myBART.org by the group Anonymous, who also promised a live protest today at BART stations. We followed the coverage from our best sources as it happened.

Missed the madness? A photo gallery of the #opBART protest via Instagram:


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Category: BART, News

Fast Best Friends on Muni

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Photo by Jessie Johnson

Mike’s story was originally published on his website, MikeLee.org. Here’s an excerpt:

Girl #1 looked at Girl #2. She smiled. The other girl looked away. Then back. Then away. Then back.

Girl #1 said, “Hi.”

Girl #2 looked at her for a moment. Then, “Hi.”

Girl #1 said a few more things. I didn’t catch them, but it looked like quite an animated message. Her little hands flailed about excitedly.

Girl #2 smiled. Her arms stayed at her sides while she answered. She gripped her mother as the bus rocked and lurched.

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Then came Girl #2′s stop. Her mother got up and took her arm. The little girl frowned. “I don’t want to go,” she told her mother.

“But this is our stop.”

“I don’t want to go,” Girl #2 repeated as she dutifully stood up.

The two girls exchanged sad glances. The mothers smiled. “How cute,” said Mother #1. “In just thirty minutes, they’ve become the best of friends.”

Read the whole story on Mike’s website.

Category: diaries, reflection

Video Diary: Cool Kids on BART

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A really small thing made my trip on the Pittsburgh-Baypoint train on Saturday memorable. I got on the train at Civic Center station and saw two guys in their 40s sitting together eating their lunch. An old lady with a cane got on the train, and one of the guys got up to give her his seat, but she didn’t want to sit next to his friend, which made me sad.

I looked away for a little while, then I noticed that everyone was looking over in my direction. I turned around and saw that three young teenagers had got on the train, and they were playing with yoyo-like toys that I hadn’t seen before. It was a ball on a string with a handle, and they were balancing the ball on the handle to showing off their skills on the moving train. The two guys who were eating their lunch were amused and asked the kids to show them how to play with it. And everyone in that corner of the train was smiling.

As the guys left, they gave the kids a fist pump and said good bye. I asked Willem, one of the kids, what the toy was. He told me that it’s a Japanese toy called kendama. You can see Willem showing off his best move on BART in the video I took above.

Thanks, Willem and friends, who brought a smile to our BART ride on Saturday.

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Anonymous Hacks myBART.org

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The online hacker group Anonymous has hacked into myBART.org and released thousands of names, email and home addresses, and phone numbers, reports TheNextWeb. They’ve also defaced myBART.org, an independent website, with the hacker group’s logo, reports CNET.

The hacker group had threatened to take BART.gov off line today and also proposed a protest on Monday at 5 p.m. As of 3:15 p.m., the BART.gov website is still live.

All of this came from BART’s decision to cut cell service last Thursday in anticipation of a protest about the July 3 shooting.

Read more about it at the SFAppeal and the Bay Citizen.

What do you think: is this an effective way to protest BART’s cell disruption?

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