SFist: Hey, Want Some Wood?

jameth

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:29:23 -0800

fillmore at alamo square. DO I WIN PRIZE

HappyChandler

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:21:36 -0800

Kids, program the non-emergency number in your cell phones. I have the Berkeley non-emergency number, and use it for stuff like dogs running loose out in the middle of the street.

Suz

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:15:55 -0800

I called 911 a couple of years back when some crazy dude was going up and down Fourth Street ripping large branches off the young trees in front of Moscone West. Aside from the vandalism (those trees cost money, kids) it's pretty crazy behavior and then there's um... littering?

eightslosh

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:08:08 -0800

I didn't think it was possible, but you've managed to lower the bar of what's considered news on SFist.

tps

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:39:33 -0800

Yeah, I called 911. I was hesitant but the operator was interested and she kept me on the line getting info. It was 6:30am so I guess it was kind of slow as far as crime. Anyway, you wouldn't call if someone was outside your apartment pulling down a tree? I'm not a green enviro nut, but it's not the middle of a forest or even a park. Trees are scarce in my neighborhood. Maybe I don't appreciate hardcore vandalism as much as I used to. I like slumming as much as the next hipster, but after a while the broken windows, ugly graffiti and human waste on the sidewalk loses its charm.

Rah

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:38:12 -0800

tps, you called 911 for some people chopping a tree down?

SFist_Dan

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:02:37 -0800

Fillmore and Waller - that's it. Good job, guys. AJ, you should be a detective; I hear SFPD is hiring!

bob loblaw

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:40:47 -0800

it's true. cafe du soleil at fillmore and waller! i saw it last night.

tps

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:39:05 -0800

I would have guessed Valencia too - because I saw a couple idiots chop down a tree just this morning next to Gracie Jui Jitsu. It wasn't a little sapling either. They used shovels to chip at and then pulled it over. I called 911. This branch in the picture didn't just fall down. This is disgusting. It took years to grow that big. Is this an epidemic?

aj

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:20:10 -0800

The curb cut was recently rebuilt with tactile grooves. We can't see if there are bumpy domes or not. It's a two way street in a flat area. There's parallel parking on both sides. It's in SFist so it must be somewhere in the hipster center of the city, not out in the Sunset or up on Russian Hill. There's no bus stop on this corner. Dan said it was near Haight and Fillmore. I say it's Waller and Fillmore by Cafe Soleil.

SFist_Dan

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:53:40 -0800

Good reasoning, mariconsoy, but not there. PRBurkley, you're close.

mariconsoy

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:27:59 -0800

Since the branch fell on its own, the tree was not well maintained. Clue one. Although there are some expensive cars parked in the background, the truck in the right foreground has its license plate taped over. That indicates the driver has a stolen car or is protecting him/her self during a drug run. That is clue two. The is a dried blood stain with two rivlets on the street. Clue three. Between the two cars in the background, we see people eating at an outdoor table. Clue four. Clues 1-4 clearly indicate an up and coming area with restaurants; still a bit on the sleazy dangerous side. The real clue is the fallen branch itself. It is clerarly from a rare species called "scrotuma masculum" which grows only in the Mission on side-streets near Valencia.

PRBurkley

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:10:28 -0800

Haight and Fillmore?