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The Powell cable cars are down this morning after a delivery tuck accidentally rammed a lamp post, which then fell and smashed into a window at Game Stop at 151 Powell.

According to LiveJournaler extraordinaire and soon-to-be SF expatriate Jameth, there's a medical emergency at the Powell Muni station, causing chaos. According to his Twitter message, "Medical emergency at Powell station outbound. Muni meltdown. Pls use surface routes kthx. [2:58 p.m.] " Please adjust your route home accordingly. .

From the station that brought you Chinese water torture, we now have asbestos warnings and some sort of clear plastic tubing thingy that looks like it appeared in E.T. Fun!

Muni issued an alert yesterday afternoon that said simply, "Emergency - Powell line cable cars back in service." Oh no! Emergency! Cable cars unleashed on an unsuspecting public! Save yourselves! Run for the hills! Oh no wait -- the hills are exactly where the cable cars WANT you to run!

Screw the cardboard tube battle, this sounds like something that needs to happen every night. This evening at 5 p.m. sharp, head on down to the tourist epicenter of San Francisco, the Powell Cable Car turnaround, for what will be a massive pie fight. According to Mr. Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid, SF0 player Herbie Hatman is organizing a formal-attire pie fight (think Mabel Normand, Keystone Cops) which will get all up in...

Why? Because a body has been found under one of the BART trains. How the body ended up there or its current condition is unknown at this time. But a medical examiner has been called onto the scene, so...sounds like a not-alive body to us. Sadly.