August 8, 2007
Bravery and a Breakfast Sandwich
Tonight at City Hall, three men are being honored for 1) attacking an attacker, 2) chasing said attacker, and 3) coming to the aid of the attacked. Remember in May when a teenage girl was randomly attacked with a knife in a bakery by some loser who got out of San Quentin the day before? Well, that happened in our part of the city, where not much usually happens.
Have you ever heard of Miraloma Park? It’s right next to where we wait until 6pm every week to put out our garbage cans in the Sunnyside. Trust us, it is in the city and people do live south of Noe Valley. (All of you at City College know what we’re talking about. Nice mural, BTW.)
Anyway. We thought we would pander the Bonds-haters of the world by highlighting (and this is only for the haters) some real heroes on this day that we now call “Barry Bonds Day.”
So, here’s to Kermit Kubitz who risked his life to save the life of a total stranger. Here’s to Jonas Svallin who chased a crazed man (who had just critically injured two people with a knife) half a mile, leading to the capture of the stabber. And, here’s to Dr. Sang-ick Chang, who dropped and therefore sacrificed his overpriced groceries from Tower Market (worth it for the meat department alone) to come to the aid of the attacked teenager.
And, last but not least, here’s to Creighton's American Bakery for weathering the storm of this horrible incident and continuing to make the best breakfast sandwiches in the city.
You are all heroes in our book, and we will forever call May 19th “KubSvalCha Day” and celebrate it every year with an egg sandwich.
By Deborah
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I just got back from the police commission hearing where the 3 guys were honored. Many VIPS were there, as was an SRO crowd.
These 3 guys are truly heroes. They got about a 5 minute standing ovation/people were even crying.
The story is that the girl was attacked by a guy who had just been released from San Quentin. [Yogo and Suckafree- are you ready to comment?] He didn't know her, and she did nothing to provoke the attack. He stabbed her in the neck and cut her jugular with a big knife. He continued stabbing her but one of the guys intervened. The nutcase started stabbing him, and the knife got stuck in his ribs. He [hero] pulled it out and fought the guy. A doctor happened to be walking by and knew how to stop the major bleeding. She was apparently 40seconds or less away from bleeding to death had he not stopped.
The other guy chased the stabber, and police caught him mainly because the 3rd hero had run after him and found him.
I am in awe over these guys, who like most true heroes didn't think what they did was all that much. SHEESH!
Memo to Josh Wolf- when you turn your cell phone off it makes a pretty tune which we did not want to hear at this special meeting where you could hear a pin drop. Get a grip and some manners.
I raise my glass to these quick-thinking and bold people. I hope I might have the same clear head and sense of action should I ever be in their place.
mariconsoy - Thanks for filling us in on the ceremony and the details of the incident.