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This is how WE roll.
But first, some sad news.
Minutes after the end of the 49ers/Broncos pre-season game, Niner offensive lineman Thomas Herrion collapsed and was pronounced dead upon arrival at a Denver hospital. The autopsy results were inconclusive and it could take weeks to determine the cause of death. Herrion is not the first football player to die during the season as heat, atmospheric conditions and the huge size of football players can be somtimes be a toxic mix. He was 23.
And here's an update on the exploding transformer
-An angry Gavin demanded an investigation into the cause of the explosion and called for accountability on PG&E's part. Quoth the Gavin: "enough is enough. Excuses be damned, there will be accountability." And in a statement that will warm the cockels of Bruce Brugmann’s heart, Susan Leal, the head of the Public Utilities Committee, says that these type of incidents made her even more determined to "aggressively look at alternatives" to PG&E. In response, PG&E has annnounced that they'll soon inspect all 540 of the city's transformer vaults to make sure there won't be any more explosions. The poor woman injured in all this is still in critical condition at burn center at St. Francis but is said to be doing better.
Ladies and Gentleman, Your Mayor at Hetch Hetchy from AP
-Today, officials from five San Francisco agencies will once again determine if the ski jump scheduled for next week will go on. This after further complaints from people who live near the jump, including homeowners (rich NIMBYs), a hysterical bride (whiny NIMBY), and Hindu monks (holy NIMBYs). All told, the group that's organized to fight the ski jump total around twenty. Says the bride about the ski jump conflicting with her wedding:
"Our vows are the most sacred part of our ceremony but instead of hearing us saying 'I love you,' our guests will hear the snowboard announcer and trucks dismantling a ski jump…No bride should have to face this before she gets married."And, in reference to this being thrown by Johnny Moseley for his 30th birthday, she also said "when I turned thirty, we went to a bar in the Mission. We didn't close any streets. We didn't create a public nuisance." We suggest next time that if the organizers want to put a ski jump somewhere in the city, an idea of which most people we've talked to think is an idea somewhere between "that rocks" and "that's awesome," they put hold it someplace where only poor minority people live. Never mess with people in Pacific Heights.
-The Chronicle points out that our beloved President, George W. Bush will probably be the first President since Calvin Coolidge never to visit San Francisco. The reason? He's just too busy. Some say it's because this place is just too anti-Bush and there'd be no point in coming, especially as it could lead to those bad kind of images politicians don't like the world to see. Yeah, we know, good riddance. But seriously, we think it's kind of pathetic actually. For a guy who strides around like the rootin', tootinest cowboy West of the Mississippi and a guy so desperate to appear macho he made himself into a living action figure, this is one of those things that just proves that deep down, the W. in his name stands for "wussy."
-The Board of Supervisors stepped up this week and voted on limits and regulations in displaying human remains as part of some sort of exhibit. Like the kind of exhibit that played in SF this spring. From now on, if somebody wants to show dead bodies, they’ll have to have documentation that the bodies are being shown with the express written consent of family members. There will be, however, exemptions for the remains of people who died over a hundred years and for religious services so we won’t have to worry about a King Tut exhibit being banned. It's about time somebody passed this law.