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Well, wouldja look at that. It's a Homeland Security car parked right in front of a hydrant last Wednesday, at Folsom/18th in the "abandoned warehouse" section of the Mission. And look, there's another one in the very same spot on Thursday! And get this: the same car is parked in that very spot today -- only the driver managed to inch up so the car's only barely in the red this time. Well, one legal parking job out of three ain't bad, right?
We were going to try to think of some witty, pithy, wry observation to make about this amazing discovery, but gave up from sheer boredom after a few seconds. Civil servants sometimes bend their own rules? ORLY? Scintillating.
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In the Marina, the police & ambulance drivers seem to think that the red zones by fire hydrants are personalized parking places!
A firefighter once told me a story about a time when his engine crew responded to a fire in the Tenderloin and a SFPD squad car was parked in front of the nearest fire hydrant. Firefighters had to break the passenger and driver side windows of the squad car to attach their hoses to the fire hydrant. They had to act fast, because there was not time to call a tow truck or find the officer with the keys.
Turns out the squad car belonged to a cop that heard the call over the radio and rushed to the scene. In his pursuit for glory, the officer endangered the lives of those still inside the SRO hotel by blocking access to the fire hydrant. Luckily the fire was contained before it spread to other units.
I walk on Folsom most days, and see that car there every damn day. It has/had a smashed door too.
Any idea who these government rent-a-cops do?
I meant, who are they and what do they do?
JR,
Who really knows... I have seen them pull someone over and give a ticket. The officer was talking to the person in the car, so i'm not sure if it was a moving violation like 'real' police give or what it was.
Living near 7th and Folsom with the Fed Building/Star Destroyer and the courthouses there, the DHS are all around.
They probably make lots more money than normal SFPD do...
Let's all E-mail and get it on chronicle watch! They love pictures, and it's right in town for them to see for themselves.
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Sorry to disappoint everyone, but George Bush is not responsible for this!
I work in the Allied Box Factory building on that block, and those dented Homeland Security cars are parked there because they're being worked on by the Ed Arroyo body shop across the street, and the shop doesn't have enough space to keep all the cars inside.
As far as the hydrant thing, it obviously happened since there's a picture, but I'm on that block every day and I've never noticed it as a problem.
Again, blame Ed Arroyo, not The Man on this one.