SFist: Today in San Francisco History - "Small Boy Defends Himself"

sfist_richard

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:17:15 -0800

I have to admit I was hearing "oichin" the whole time ... accent from the wrong coast, I know, but what exactly *was* that San Francisco accent? @sfperson200 - find those tapes and let me post 'em!

sfperson2000

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:58:47 -0800

English accent? Even better. There used to be a San Francisco accent. My Great-Grandmother had one! Find some tapes! I have a recording somewhere...

underachieving

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:20:50 -0800

Afterwards, Giovanni Cerino beat up John Marodi, taking his lunch money and a box of cigars.

phlavor

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:49 -0800

That's the most awsomeist thing I've ever read. Them was some Free Range Kids them was. He gave him what for. Damn I'll be talking like this all day now, I will.

Sabacc

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:15:36 -0800

"Don't you know, mister, that you sold a package of cigarettes to me which is against the law, and then you come and say I stole your cigars. You're all right, you are." Bad ass.

bluecanary

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:52:13 -0800

This story cracked me up. I'd have loved to see this little tough guy in action. Thanks.

porkbun

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:34:58 -0800

We need more street urchins

wsanders

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:24:51 -0800

I watched "The Bicycle Thief" for the first time in a long time last weekend. I had forgotten that the Kid and his Pop sit down in a restaurant and commiserate over their failure to find the bicycle by splitting a carafe of wine. Children should only drink under adult supervision!

icbalaam

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:50:18 -0800

I've met some precocious six year-olds but never this precocious. I hope after his acquittal someone bought him a pint to celebrate.

seandub

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:31:36 -0800

I'm not surprised that a 6 year old who smokes can construct sentences like that.

aj

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:57:55 -0800

"You can see, mister, that he's no kind of witness." People should talk like this again.

KatyG

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:51:12 -0800

I wager very few six-year-olds today would even know how and when to construct the sentence, "I think I can acquit the case myself." Great story!

sissa

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:40:48 -0800

For some reason I imagined everyone speaking with a British accent, especially the urchin. I pictured him as a small Artful Dodger type. Too much Dickens!

sfbs

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:38:53 -0800

"You're all right, you are." Man, this kid sounds tough.