Muni Almost Kills Someone

According to the Chronicle, while trying to catch a train at the Embarcadero station Tuesday night at around 6 p.m., a man got his hand trapped in the door of an L-line and was dragged along the platform. As he was seconds away from a fatal encounter with the approaching wall, a passenger inside the car pulled the little red emergency release par and the car stopped.

The man being dragged was fine. The driver of said L-line, of course, was pissed, "yelling, 'Who pulled the release bar?'"

Muni spokeswoman Maggie Lynch says that streetcar doors aren't designed like the doors on an elevator, "where you put your hand in and it opens." But that's what we've always seen, followed by everyone favorite sound in the world: the Muni shriek.