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Update: SFAppeal has the embeddable code. Why? Because some people understand the internet and online reporting. Anyway.
Matier & Ross, who know their way around a police newsletter but not the magic that is embedded code, have first scoop on the Muni crash videos . If you recall, Saturday's Muni crash injured more than 40 people. And, yes, wow, Jesus, the train really was going fast. We're surprised more people weren't injured. Anyway, you should check them out. The videos, according to M&R, were "shot from cameras mounted at the station platform," showing "both the high-impact crash and the response afterward by paramedics and other emergency crews." Read more about it over at SFGate.
In related news, according to SFAppeal, no footage from inside the trains will be available. Muni explains: "No surveillance video from either light rail vehicle (LRV) involved in the collision exists because the video system was not fully implemented on the entire light rail fleet during the vehicle procurement process."
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How reassuring to know that behind all those camera lenses on the light rail vehicles are only empty boxes.
ha ha, yeah. wow! foucault's panopticon in full effect. don't have to make 'em operational, just realistic enough to get people to police themselves! i wonder how much extra they paid for those.
Interesting how blase a lot of those people on the platform look.
Natural reaction to something very unusual like this is for people to freeze. You have to be trained to take action, either to run away or run toward the action. At least the guy in white turned away.
Couple years ago a homeless guy came down the aisle of my BART train spraying everyone with what turned out to be Axe body spray. Could have been sarin or something. Everyone just sat there and got sprayed. It took me 5 or 10 seconds to figure out what was going on, and by that time the guy had run off the car.
I asked BART police about what I should have done, and their response was basically, "run!"
yeah, the woman in the bottom left corner is totally unfazed.
That's why I think this is a fake video. Real train crashes are also much noisier :P
> yeah, the woman in the bottom left corner is totally unfazed.
she drugged the muni driver.
Perhaps the online bloggers could actually learn how to do the dirty work and file records requests and obtain the video themselves...
Good grief, did you go to j-school? That is a j-school comment. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The online bloggers *did* obtain the video, sfbadger. That's why you can watch it on SFist, because we at the Appeal went down to Muni HQ and got it, same way the Chron did.
Why does SF Appeal have four videos up and SF Gate five? Looks like SF Gate has posted a lengthy fifth video showing first-responders at work.
And Muni really made you physically come pick up the footage? Was it on a laserdisc?
There are actually almost 30 short videos, we watched them all and posted the ones that seemed most useful to readers. I thought that first responder one the Gate posted didn't tell anyone much about the crash, and was kind of long and boring, so we didn't post that one -- did you find it that compelling? I mean, I could post them all on YouTube or something, I guess. If you think we should, email me at editor@sfappeal.com and I'll do it.
And the video was on DVD. I mean, I could have coped with not taking the Muni ride up there to pick up the video, but all in all, it was no big deal. I'm actually pretty impressed with how hard Muni's working to keep everyone informed. They've certainly been way less cooperative in the past, so this is a nice change and one I think we all hope continues.
I want to know how many times Beth Spotswood has watched this already.
Like, four.
Oh wait. Make that five...
You can barely even see Erin Andrews' bush.
Far be it from me to make assumptions (har!) but I read that the guy was on the job for 30 years without an incident. I know we constantly bag on the majority of the MUNI fools, morons and idiots - and those are just the passengers.
But seriously folks, 30 years puts him somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-60 years old depending on when he originally got the job.
At that age, any medical circumstance is possible. I'm guessing diabetes, seizure or stroke. Hope the guy's ok.
Brock, all of our video clips at abc7news.com have embeddable code as well, including the MUNI crash surveillance video from yesterday.