“Stop wearing vests, you look like a Republican” warns a series of new flyers being spotted about town, and the flyers also have some choice words for the Marina.

We love a good rambling and incomprehensible flyer here at SFist, as long as the flyer is not racist, anti-semitic, or secretly some goddamned corporate brand campaign. So we are generally pleased to see any kind of throwback to the good old days flyers like "No Tech Zone," "Leave the Mission," "Move Back to NYC," and "MASONIC is as safe as a kittens belly fur!" Someone in San Francisco is Xeroxing in the footsteps of that bygone early 2010s flyer zeitgeist, even in the year 2022, as Broke-Ass Stuart’s Instagram breaks the story of “Stop wearing vests” flyers popping up on the city's light poles.

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As seen above, the flyer has crossout, anti- symbols over images of vests, a map of the Marina, and something in the top right-hand corner that we cannot discern because the flyer’s graphics are of such poor quality,

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We’ll transcribe the all-caps text in its entirety below:

URGENT:

-STOP WEARING VESTS, YOU LOOK LIKE A REPUBLICAN.

-STOP COMMUTING TO WORK BY CAR, SF IS THE SECOND BEST CITY IN THE U.S. FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. PERSONAL AUTOMOBILES ARE WASTEFUL AND OUTDATED, YES EVEN EV’S.

-STOP TALKING ABOUT BAD CRIME AND HOMELESSNESS IS IN SF. YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU SOUND VERY RACIST.

-STOP GOING OUT/LIVING IN THE MARINA. ONLY REPUBLICANS GO OUT IN THE MARINA.

YOU LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO NOW, ITS TIME TO START ACTING LIKE IT.

Broke-Ass Stuart himself informed SFist that the flyer depicted here was seen on Valencia Street, not in the Marina itself. But here are reports on social media that these have been spotted in the Castro as well.

We assume the vest thing is a reference to the Patagonia “power vest” that is wildly popular among Silicon Valley investor types. And in defense of the Marina, the Lake Merced area is demonstrably far more Republican than the Marina. But we’ll give the flyer’s creator(s) this much  — if you're printing and posting rambling, incomprehensible flyers on Valencia Street, then yes, you are definitely “ACTING LIKE IT” that you live in San Francisco. Kudos.

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Images: (Left) brokeassstuart via Instagram, (Right) HBO

Gentrification 3.0 in the city of Oakland..Weak 'game' will get flyers posted and the police looking for u pic.twitter.com/WzgktEnFqt

— Davey D (@mrdaveyd) October 19, 2015

What's going on here, Oakland? A photo of a flyer was posted to Twitter today that warns "neighbors of Cleveland St." to be on the lookout for a dangerous criminal asking for phone numbers. Or something.

The flyer starts out like any number of Craigslist Missed Connections posts, but quickly veers into the realm of possibly racisty. Here is the full text, with the original emphasis preserved:

Dear Neighbors Of Cleveland Street

On Monday, October 12, around 8:30am, I was approached by a man asking for my phone number......

Look Out For This Man: mid-late 20's, African American, medium build, around 5'10", short dreadlocks, wearing saggy jeans and a tan hoodie, both dirtyish, walking a pit bull on a rope.

*He was clearly not a resident of our block, crossing back and forth across the street.
*He asked me if I had friends, if he could be my friend, then asked if he could give me his phone number, presumably to steal my phone.
*As I reached the intersection of Cappell and Cleveland, an older model (possibly late 80's) Buick/Lincoln type sedan, light tan color, pulled up. I believe they were working together.

I reported this incident to the police and asked for possible surveillance.

BE AWARE!!

Is this really a strategy of phone thieves, or just your average street harassment/poor attempt at hitting on someone gone wrong? And since when did "crossing back and forth across the street" qualify you as not being from somewhere?

Obviously this read makes a few assumptions (mainly, that the flyer poster is white), but, any way you slice it, the jump from "damn some creep is trying to give me his number" to "OMG coordinated robbery attempt by black men!" is a big one. Though that's not to say he wasn't, maybe, after her phone.

But as one astute observer put it (referencing the hotbed of racism that is Nextdoor):

Clarification: Street harassment is a real problem. It's not "weak game." Refusing to be harassed is neither a symptom of gentrification nor a manifestation of racism. The intention of this post was to point out the problems with this posted flyer — of which there are many — not to suggest that women (or anyone) should allow themselves to be harassed or that neighbors should not share safety information.

Previously: Oaklander Rails Against Gentrification, Tells Newcomers To Stop Moving There

The block of Geary and Larkin was peppered with this curious yellow flyer yesterday outlining the author's belief that prominent liberal philanthropists George Soros and the Rothschilds are behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, which they've designed to influence the G20 into adopting a new 1% across-the-board stock transaction tax. Naturally, says the author, this would lead to global collapse and the formation of the New World Order.

The author points out that Occupy's whole strategy and sequence of events, including its artwork and language (but, really, why reinvent the wheel?), are modeled after the events leading up to the Bolshevik revolution. Because, obviously, citizens collectively demanding change in the status quo can only lead to communism.

Here it is in its entirety (we especially love how it starts out with a Twitter hashtag):

#OWS IS A PSYOP FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS AND THE ROTHSCHILDS VIA OPEN SOCIETY, TIDES FOUNDATION, LUCIS TRUST, PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE & ADBUSTERS -- FOLLOW THE MONEY

"OccupyWallStreet" is an EXACT replica of events prior to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 including the EXACT same artwork & language and the EXACT same sequence of dates starting with the Sept 17 "days of rage" -- which gave rise to Marxists Lenin and Trotsky. Upon martial law declaration in 1917 in response to massive civil unrest, political dissidents were rounded up and summarily executed. This entire "protest movement" is designed by Soros to influence G20 to adopt a new 1% across-the-board stock transaction tax which will be the straw breaking the camel's back in currency markets -- accelerating global collapse whereby nations will literally be BEGGING for the NWO's One World Government...

The site listed on the flyer is a sight to behold, especially the "Psyop Wall of Shame" which lists every person and organization under the sun regardless of political stance, including S.F. Mayor Ed Lee,
The Rotary Club, Glenn Beck, Henry Kissinger, Susan Sarandon, Woody Allen, DJ Samantha Ronson, the First Church of Satan, and Church of Latter-Day Saints. We imagine SFist might end up there soon, which would be quite flattering.

Which would be the more difficult/least appealing task, handling a live or a dead chicken until the owner arrived? Flyer found in Shafter, Oakland. We wonder if it belongs to Novella Carpenter.

Plug 1 from WhatImSeeing (he seems to be everywhere all at once!) sent us this image today after he picked up a pack of cool, smooth, refreshing Parliament Lights. It seems Walgreens, a chain that can do no wrong in our eyes, is handing out these flyers when you buy cigs today. Check it:

ATTENTION WALGREENS CUSTOMERS

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is proposing an ordinance that unfairly targets Rite Aid and Walgreens, preventing ONLY them from selling tobacco products.

Please contact the Board of Supervisors and tell them:

This proposal will make it less convenient for you to shop for all your needs in one location in your neighborhood, while limiting your access to legally available products.

We're going to talk about something we rarely talk about-- hockey. Why? Because the San Jose Sharks are now up 2-0 against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs, after winning last night 2-1. The Sharks, who have won six playoff games in a row, won on a game winning goal by MVP candidate Joe Thorton (check out the great video of it from a fan in the stands). Then there's how they did it, winning last night's game despite, incredibly, being down two players in a 5-3 matchup, only to have two of those players lose their sticks, and still-- somehow, inexplicably-- kept the Oilers from scoring for over a minute. That's studly. Even better is the fact that in describing the whole thing, Sharks coach Ron Wilson referenced the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. How can you not give some props to a Monty Python quoting coach?

There was a time when we were actually pretty into hockey, a left over effect of having grown up in Flyers-mad Philadelphia. But somewhere along the line, right around the point we started seeing highlights of a Columbus/Nashville game, we stopped really caring that much. We would, however, get a little interested again around playoff hockey because playoff hockey is a whole other beast entirely, hockey at it's purest and with an intensity that ranks right up there with the Big Three sports, (check out this YouTube video of the Sharks' entrance in Game 4 of the series against the Predators to check out the intensity-- it's right out of a rock conert, a Ronnie James Dio rock concert). Actually, one could even say that playoff hockey has even more intensity than the other sports. In hockey, for instance, a star player would never quit trying half-way through a 7th game to sulk because they know that they will probably be pummeled to death their teammates.

This season, we started to pay mild attention to the Sharks only to see them spend most of the season in a funk, mired in the bottom end of their division. But then they traded for Joe Thorton in one of the best trades the Bay Area has ever seen and the team took off, finishing off as the hottest team in the NHL. So now we're back into it, following along with the team and even checking them out on TV (that is if we could find the OLN network). We're even more into it because this series has been a real humdinger and because the Shark's are winning the way hockey is supposed to be played, old time hockey-like, with much hitting and checking and do-or-die intensity.

In other words, Go Sharks.