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Oh man. This is sad. Yesterday someone from something called the Experience Project (i.e., "millions of life experiences shared anonymously through first person stories") posted on something rather bizarre:
So, I'm walking back to work from lunch, and on the sidewalk of a very busy street in San Francisco (right at 4th and Market in the South of Market district) I see a huge Manta Ray on the sidewalk!I was one of the first people at the site and a few police officers had just arrived on the scene. Everyone was just staring at the giant Manta Ray wondering how it ever got there.
The guy who called the police said that it actually flapped its way over to that part of the sidewalk from about 20 feet away, so it must have been alive when it was dropped there!
Anyone else see what happened? How did it get there? Hurry, we need someone to blame! Anyway, you can read more here. (Thanks Janine Kahn for sending this our way.)
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ahhh yes. another OISF moment.
Weird things happen in other places all the time; I'm not sure why people think this kind of bizarre shit is relegated to SF.
That said, what the fucking fuck.
Could this be another Montauk Monster hoax?
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I'm not sure why people think this kind of bizarre shit is relegated to SF.
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Dude, I'm right here. You know, the person who made the comment you're criticizing? Not 'people.' Sheez
All I know is that I'm going to blame the military industrial complex until a more viable culprit is pointed out.
What the hell? Poor thing.
We need some levity so let's have a contest where commentators make up the most humorous story as to how the little beastie got to 4th and Market.
I have posted signs all over San Francisco about my missing pet manta ray and this is how I have to find out what happened to her? The fucking SFist?!?
What a cruel world. Poor Betty. She was like none other.
I like how the cop with the helmet looks so dumbfounded. SFPD are worthless.
Dude, I'm right here. You know, the person who made the comment you're criticizing? Not 'people.' Sheez
Well, it wasn't a personal thing, just more of a general comment prompted by your post. Lo siento.
hugs.
Yes, we all know that the SFPD have to undertake 48 hours of dangerous-aquatic-creatures-on-the-sidewalk training every year. He should have known exactly what to do.
chortle.
But that's Market and Montgomery!
"I like how the cop with the helmet looks so dumbfounded. SFPD are worthless."
You're so right! In NYC, the Manta Ray Response Team (MRRT) would have been all over this without batting an eye.
Even in cities without the budget for a proper MRRT, the police are usually better trained in the handling and disposition of large Rays.
That officer's confusion is an embarrassment to all of us.
i think their confusion is understandable.
that is indeed market and newmo.
my guess is the manta ray went out celebrating on monday b/c the frank chu moratorium was lifted on sfist. this resulted in a 4 day bender on or near 6th and stevenson. today he woke up hungover and broke so he headed down to house of shields for a nooner bloody mary. when darting across market, a rogue n-judah ran him over.
I'm resorting to the old reliables: I'm blaming transfats and Kamala Harris, in that order.
well yeah. how many people have actually seen a manta, on the sidewalk even? It's total rubber-nekkin bait.
Chris Daly is also involved, somehow.
At the end of the day, I'm just going to have to chalk this up to a SNAFU in the re-transfer of the Academy of Sciences from SOMA back to the park.
Manta ray murdered in Downtown San Francisco. No arrests have been made.
The Rays did play in Oakland this week...maybe Rocco Baldelli accidentally left him behind at the hotel and the poor fella was just trying to get a cab to SFO to fly home to Florida.
aw, aventinus beat me to it.
IT WAS NOT ALIVE when it arrived at One Post.
It was dead on a beach and someone brought it downtown in their bag.
Don't be such idiots.
I watched it for 20 minutes. If it were alive, I would have been the one to call the cops.
I think the cops should investigate the people who catch these rays for their tails and nothing else.
Maybe it was late for school. Geddit? School. http://www.instantrimshot.com/
The cops also poured water on it to try to help the damn thing. It was obviously dead. It looked like beef jerky. I have pictures.
Sorry, OrangeDrink. Great minds.
The manta was undoubtedly run over by a fixie rider that ran the red light.
was it a pink plastic bag?
The ray's name was Steve.
clear plastic bag.
@Plug1
the N-Judah isn't above ground! DUH! go back to the T-3rd.
;)
The officer poured water as an act of libation.
@ kapshure: the N-Judah does run above ground, partly. and late-nite exclusively.
dont you ride that twice a day?
Oh weirdness...when I saw the title I thought (despite the word "flaps") it was about a guy, or a band, or something other than an actual manta ray. Then I looked harder at the picture...I'm dumbfounded and I'm not even there.
Somewhere there's a nervous employee at the new Steinhart Aquarium going: "Shit, I put the giant Manta Ray next to the truck to bring 'em over from downtown...and now I can't find 'em anywhere."
That is NOT a manta ray. Mantas are really big. the linked site says it is a 'huge' manta, and since mantas are normally much larger than people are, that would make the poor animal shown a tiny manta. It doesn't look like a manta anyway. It looks more like an eagle ray or something similar.
Its just easy to make fun of cops.
@SednaBoo: lame, dude, really lame
explain yourself
i blame george bush. lets name a sewage treatment plant after him.
Your head can go real screw
with saucers chasing you
This don't swim
This fly
Fly
C'mon
Your head can go real screw
With saucers chasing you
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
Maybe it was trying to pay its $200 tab @ House of Shields..........
Steve Irwin's widow finally has her revenge.
You can always tell how good or bad the economy is doing based on the number of messages posted on these boards and depth of banality and self righteousness displayed.
Based on the retarded pee pee wars being waged around here lately, either everyone is waiting to get laid off or already unemployed.
Show of hands anyone?
he couldnt live with himself after what he did to the croc hunter :(
@Joel
> The Rays did play in Oakland this week...maybe Rocco Baldelli accidentally left him behind at the hotel and the poor fella was just trying to get a cab to SFO to fly home to Florida.
O__O
Astute!
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=oak
@jcbalaam
> The officer poured water as an act of libation.
I heard that read in the voice of Nice Pete from Achewood.
Oh I dunno, I've been out of work and irrelevant for at least 5 years now, and I get net-nicer all the time...cocksucker.
Damn police taser a ray and then best the hell out of it!
Here is what really happened that day at 000 Montgomery
http://000montgomery.ning.com/video/video/show?id=1998303:Video:522
The real phenomena is how it fell out of the invisible building at 000 Montgomery
http://friendfeed.com/e/ad6087e5-760c-e8c4-1d30-76bc3d0fdaeb/The-invisible-building-at-000-Mongomery/
http://reclaimingmisshavisham.typepad.com/reclaiming_miss_havisham/2008/08/yes-video-footage-of-manta-ray-mystery.html
http://000montgomery.ning.com/video/video/show?id=1998303:Video:522