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While the bridge has been shutdown over the Labor Day Weekend, they've been publishing images of their work in progress, using high-resolution photos. Much to our delight. Otherwise, one would never have spotted this totally awesome bit of graffiti, presumably scribbled on the on the side of the structure by Bay Bridge workers.
Follow the Blowup-esque gallery to find out what these workers wanted you to know.
And, who could they be referring to here? Caltrans inspector Mike Whiteside? A much-loathed bridge worker named "Mike" who has an affection for mammary glands? Mike Seaver? As Jim Herd at SFCitizen, who first spotted the offensive graffiti, points out, "Perhaps Mike Whiteside’s pals could spend their time looking for more cracks instead of engaging in these kinds of monkeyshines?"
Update: Bay Bridge Media Bar seems to have yanked the images from the site. Bah.
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Dude, these are CONSTRUCTION WORKERS. They're S'POSED to do stuff like that. ("Just keepin' it real.") They're not "citizen activists" or NGO directors or blog writers or customer service representatives or Dolores Park neighbors.
Also, Jim Herd is apparently confused about divisions of labor and expertise, roles and responsibilities in organizing for large projects. These guys ("construction workers") build the stuff, and work for contractors; other guys ("inspectors") go around inspecting the stuff, before and after, and work for independently-contracted inspection services or for CalTrans itself. It's not their job to look for cracks. Perhaps Jim should go down there and perform a concrete (actually steel and concrete) manifestation of his usual word- and idea-based crack-inspecting activities.
Further - why is this "offensive"? This is exactly the kind of thing that Violet Blue wishes she could just say outright. Is the activity referred to bad or negative?! Is the explicit mention of body parts bad? Was the Dyke March "offensive"?! Also, there are no misspellings, as often occur on our favorite blogsites, which is arguably even more offensive. If it really IS so offensive, why post it and quote it in your headline?!!!!!!!!!
Finally, this graffitum likely took less than a minute to write, spell-check, review and edit. Plus it's given many more minutes of humorous pleasure to sfist and SFCitizen readers.
I think you should thank those construction workers, and ask them to offer a "graffitum of the day", and post photos of it daily. It could be like be like "Day Around the Bay, by Today's Guest Blogger" on sfist, only more real.
[[BTW, not really meaning to harsh on Jim and the SFCitizen; I love the Citizen - please keep up the good work!!!]]
I demand that the bridge be torn down and rebuilt by more sensitive people!
I would like to go on record and say that "nipples as bug as your thumb" are not big at all.
Nipples as big as saucers, now that's a whole other realm.
p.s.
Who the hell uses the term "monkeyshines" anyway?
@RobinSF: Nipples as big as your thumb are quite big indeed (depending upon the size of your thumb). They even trump the late Farrah Fawcett's pencil erasers -- she had some doozies.
If you're thinking areolas, then your description fits. Other words used to describe big areolas include saucer, pancake, etc.
Just trying to keep it real...
Maybe this was actually part of an official monitoring process involving the validation of Mike Whiteside's inspection activities. Perhaps he was just checking in with his own elaboration on the sucking.
Who ever thought construction workers knew such dirty words.
I must join the call for the bridge to be torn down, we must not allow this vile language to exist on our public structures!!
this image is photo shopped. c'mon people!
U whiny bitches...its been a time honored tradition for construction workers to 'sign' their work. Granted, this is some of the more stupid 'signatures' but goddamn
That writing is going to covered in concrete, buried inside steel latice work, or taken apart (I can't tell what piece this is on from the picture) before the public gets close enough to read.