January 29, 2008
DANGER: Muni Cars Return to Claim More Victims
Muni issued an alert yesterday afternoon that said simply, "Emergency - Powell line cable cars back in service." Oh no! Emergency! Cable cars unleashed on an unsuspecting public! Save yourselves! Run for the hills! Oh no wait -- the hills are exactly where the cable cars WANT you to run!
Okay, okay, we jest. Obviously it's just a poor choice of words, not real peril. We can't begin to guess why someone thought that "emergency" was an appropriate word to describe the reopening of cable car line -- perhaps the only good news to have come out of Muni in recent memory -- but anyway it made us giggle. Oh how we giggled. The giggling fools, that's what people called us.
Watch Muni's RSS feed for more exciting updates, such as "Sound the Alarm: F Line Appeals to Visiting Tourist Family" and "CATACLYSMIC DISASTER: New Bus Seats Found to be Cushiony, Soothing to Buttocks."
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mattymatt: no joke.
http://tinyurl.com/2puqh7
Thankfully when I lived in SF I lived on Hyde.. on one of the tops of the hills, so I was always King and only the people that lived in the lower areas had to run for their lives.
does anyone know which cable car is the one dedicated to the late, great Herb Caen? like what number and what line? or is it an F-Market line?
clearly, i know very little.
WARNING: The wheels on the bus go around, AND around.
*Note to self: keep all appendages inside the cable car at all times...yikes. :/
Meanwhile, someone was killed by Caltrain yesterday.
@ Aventinus:
How is this possible? I've still never actually taken CalTrain- do they grease the platforms or something? This is like, what, the 6th CalTrain death in the past few months?
I have no idea -- reports were saying it was a "trespasser," so not a suicide? I guess it means they weren't in the crossing, which would be an accidental death. Other times, the person has been on a cell phone or something and couldn't hear the train coming??
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/29/BA3TUNR9S.DTL&hw=caltrain&sn=001&sc=1000
Plug1,
It is one of the F-Market & Wharves streetcars which is dedicated to Herb Caen. Muni streetcar no. 130, originally built in 1914.
Maybe it was someone who DIDN'T LOOK WHERE HE WAS GOING
... when crossing an active railroad. (oops, didn't mean to submit too soon.)
Ya know those "Active Railroad, No Trespassing" signs? They actually mean what they say.