SF News California Cops Worried That New ‘Fast & Furious’ Sequel Will Cause More Sideshows The City of Oakland just passed stricter new sideshow crackdown legislation, but some law enforcement authorities wonder if the new movie Fast X isn’t going to just set off more sideshows all over the state this weekend.
SF News Cars Set On Fire And Rammed Into As Multiple Sideshows Rollicked Oakland Friday At least three large sideshows brought mayhem to Oakland streets Friday night and Saturday morning, and in one of them two cars set on fire and rammed into for sport by other cars.
SF News Oakland Sideshow In Which Frustrated Man Was Beaten and Hydrant Was Sheared Off Sparks 'Outrage' From Mayor Video emerged over the weekend of an Oakland man attempting to scold and yell at participants in a chaotic sideshow, only to get beaten bloody by the crowd — and at that same sideshow a car careened into the crowd and sheered off a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into the air.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes Novel Method to Crack Down on Sideshows: Drones SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman proposed a new idea Tuesday to potentially crack down on and deter sideshows in the city, without putting police or participants in unnecessary danger while they're occurring.
SF News Sideshows Barraged All Corners of the Bay Area This Weekend, In SF, Oakland, and San Jose After a wave of sideshows again hit San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose this weekend, police are touting that they did make a few arrests, handed out more than 30 citations, and impounded nearly a dozen cars.
SF News Big Rig Joins In Sideshow In Oakland, Spins Donuts Near Port In one of three separate sideshow incidents early Saturday in Oakland, a big rig took center stage and, with a shipping container in tow, spun a few donuts near the Port of Oakland, to the delight of the assembled crowd.
SF News Santa Rosa Police Arrest At Least Seven Suspects for July Sideshow, Still Looking To Arrest More Sideshows in Sonoma County? Indeed there was a big one there in early July, and Santa Rosa police just issued 14 arrest warrants, plus their searches have turned up nearly a dozen firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds.
SF News Friday Night Sideshow Has Embarcadero Residents Grumbling Over Lack of Arrests The fallout is still coming down from Friday night's sideshows on the Embarcadero and on the Bay Bridge, as residents complain to local TV stations about a lack of any arrests or citations in these affairs.
SF News Sideshows Burn Some Rubber, Block Traffic on Embarcadero and Bay Bridge Friday Night Friday night saw a sideshow that seems to have moved from the Embarcadero near the Ferry Building onto the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sideshow Law Helped San Jose Police Make Huge Bust The UC academic worker strike moves into its second day, an equipment problem on BART led to smoke and delays in SF, and San Jose police deployed a new tactic and the city's newish sideshow law to issue over 700 citations over the weekend.
SF News Sideshows Sprang Up Saturday In Multiple East Bay Cities and Vallejo Saturday was a big night for sideshows in multiple places in the Bay Area, as police chased down gatherings of hundreds of cars in Vallejo, Richmond, Rodeo, and Hayward in a span of hours.
SF News SFMTA Installs Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps on Three SF Corners Hoping to hit the brakes on the recent increase in San Francisco sideshows, SFMTA has installed speed bumps at certain, specific corners in the Mission, Oceanview, and the Excelsior.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshows On Both Sides of the Bay Lead to Injuries Sideshows in both Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday night ended with injuries, Ayesha Curry's Oakland store was broken into, and hackers released stolen data from the L.A. Unified School District when before their ransom deadline.
SF News Cinco de Mayo Brings Sideshows to Oakland and Santa Rosa; One Man Shot In Santa Rosa Sideshow events erupted in the East and North Bay on Thursday night, as revelers came out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in full force — and a massive sideshow in Santa Rosa ended with one man getting shot multiple times.
SF News Three Separate Sideshows Rollicked Downtown, Mission, and Excelsior This Weekend There were no reported injuries — but no reported arrests either — as three separate sideshows laid the skids on SF streets this weekend.
SF News Late-Night Weekend Sideshows Roil Quiet Neighborhoods of West Portal, Outer Sunset Two ‘hoods that do not see many sideshows were both hit with them this past weekend, as both West Portal and the Outer Sunset hosted uninvited sideshows late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
SF News As Sideshows Spike Across NorCal, Santa Rosa Considers Sanctioning and Legalizing Them A Santa Rosa city councilperson aspires to “make lemonade out of lemons” by permitting sideshows at the county fairgrounds, complete with vending booths and safety barricades.
SF News Video: Huge San Jose Sideshow Results in 205 Citations, a Mere One Arrest San Jose continues to draw more and larger sideshows than even SF or Oakland, and a five-minute video has emerged from this weekend’s dangerous, donut-skidmark affair.
SF News SFPD Seizes Cadillac Spotted During Sideshow With AK-47-Wielding Woman Hanging Out Window The SFPD's Traffic Safety division announced Wednesday that it had seized a vehicle believed to have been involved in "an illegal exhibition of speed event," a.k.a. a sideshow, last month.
SF News Sunday Night Sideshow In SF Blocks Bay Bridge, Spawns Numerous Smartphone Videos A Rincon Hill sideshow briefly blocked the entrance and exit to the Bay Bridge Sunday night, and Twitter Karen-dom is furious at the lack of arrests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Install Physical Deterrents for Sideshows Oakland is installing Botts' dots and other physical deterrents to curb sideshow activity, someone's improperly thrown out lithium battery sparked a fire at Recology, and the search intensifies for that missing Berkeley runner.
SF News Oakland Sees Night of Chaos With Massive Sideshow, 'Celebratory' Gunfire and Other Violence Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong gave a special press briefing Monday to lament the "12 hours of non-stop chaos" that he says officers were dealing with on Sunday night.
SF News You Can Now Go to Jail for Tweeting About Sideshows in San Jose The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that will levy fines and threaten jail time for promoters of illegal sideshows on social media.
SF News Biker Killed on Bay Bridge Identified; Stockton Man Arrested for His Murder The 20-year-old dirtbiker who was killed in a collision on the Bay Bridge on Sunday while trying to evade CHP officers has been identified as Christopher Lee of Beaumont, Texas.
SF News Motorcyclist Killed On Bay Bridge After Day Of Cops Chasing Dirtbike Sideshows Around SF Hundreds of motorcyclists, many on off-road dirtbikes and ATVs, paraded around SF and nearby cities on Sunday mostly evading capture by authorities. But when two motorcyclists tried a daredevil move on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, it ended with one of them dead.
