It's a triple espresso shot in your crime Blotter/coffee Trimethyl latte -- the SFPD were called in this afternoon to the Starbucks on Van Ness and Bush after an employee found a homemade pipe bomb in the bathroom. The police cleared out everyone from the neighboring Ellis Brooks auto center, the Wayo sushi bar, and the apartments upstairs.
The bomb squad took about 20-30 minutes to defuse the device, which was described as "a portion of a flashlight and a fuse." No one was injured, and the folks evacuated across the street said they didn't hear anything when the bomb was detonated. Traffic was rerouted for about an hour.
Your Trimethyldioxypurist swears it wasn't him! He's got an alibi!
Update: Man, it is not a good day for corporate coffee on Van Ness. Watch out, newly-opened Opera Plaza Peet's by Clean Well-Lighted! A car crashed into a Tully's on Van Ness and Pine today too. SFPD says it doesn't appear to be related to the Starbucks thing.
Picture of the Van Ness/Bush Starbucks from the site Starbucks Everywhere
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I love how KTVU actually called it an "Improvised Explosive Device." Because, you know, we're fighting a war on terror so it's important to use military slang whenever possible. I'm sure the insurgents in Iraq hate Starbucks, too.
I love that building. The apartments seem so urbane. The St*rbucks just detracts a bit from the package. But it wasn't me, ociffer, I swear!
Ask Bill O'Reilly: Does he still think it's funny?
O'Reilly to San Francisco: "If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. ... You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead"
Criticizing a ballot measure passed by 60 percent of San Francisco voters urging public high schools and colleges to prohibit on-campus military recruiting, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly declared on the November 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, "f Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off-limits to you, except San Francisco."
From the November 8 broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I'm not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead."
And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.
The 210-foot Coit Tower was dedicated in 1933 and contains a museum and murals that depict working life in 1930s California.
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