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!

Okay, okay, we jest. Obviously it's just a poor choice of words, not peril. We can't begin to guess why someone thought that "emergency" was an appropriate word to describe the reopening of cable car line -- perhaps the only good news to have come out of Muni in recent memory -- but anyway it made us giggle. Oh how we giggled. The giggling fools, that's what people called us.

Watch Muni's RSS feed for more exciting updates, such as "Sound the Alarm: F Line Appeals to Visiting Tourist Family" and "CATACLYSMIC DISASTER: New Bus Seats Found to be Cushiony, Soothing to Buttocks."

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