SF News Pac Heights Getting Speed Bumps to Deter Sideshows, Because Yes, There Are Sideshows in Pac Heights A rash of recent sideshows in the tony neighborhood of Pacific Heights has led the city to install speed bumps to prevent the motor mayhem at Divisadero and California streets.
SF News Antioch Passes a Ban on Encouraging or Even Watching Sideshows The East Bay city of Antioch is struggling with too few cops and too many sideshows, but its city council just unanimously passed a ban on advertising, promoting, encouraging, or even watching a sideshow.
SF News Sunday Links: Yet Another Sideshow Shuts Down Bay Bridge There was yet another sideshow on the Bay Bridge early this morning; four people were injured in a shooting in Vallejo; and a two-acre grass fire broke out in San Francisco Saturday night.
SF News San Jose Police SUV Destroyed By Rowdy Sideshow Participants There's often a hefty amount of "Why didn't the police do anything?" talk when footage of the latest sideshow comes out, and police frequently respond that unruly crowds can get dangerous for officers, especially lone officers, when they try to intervene on the party.
SF News Roving Sideshows In SF and Oakland Include Vehicle Set Ablaze on Embarcadero There were more sideshows Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and a caravan of dozens of cars apparently moved from Oakland to San Francisco, putting on a sideshow on the Embarcadero and another in the Mission District.
SF News There Was a Saturday Sideshow On Van Ness Avenue, In the Middle of SF The encroachment of Oakland-style sideshows in San Francisco — particularly on warm-weather weekends — continues, and there was one on Saturday night that was surprisingly close to Pacific Heights.
SF News Motorcyclist Injured Amid Dirt Bike and ATV Sideshow Near Lake Merritt A Sunday evening sideshow near Oakland's Lake Merritt ended with one motorcyclist needing medical attention.
SF News Multiple Sideshows Break Out In Oakland; Three Cars Set Ablaze, One Car Rams OPD Cruiser Oakland saw another series of chaotic sideshows Saturday night beginning around midnight and extending well into the morning hours of Sunday. And police did try to intervene, and multiple people were taken into custody.
SF News 3AM Sideshow Takes Over Bay Bridge A sideshow that may have been the culmination of several others on the Peninsula Saturday night broke out around 3:15 am Sunday on the eastbound deck of the Bay Bridge, east of Treasure Island.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
SF News Early Spring Weather Brings Illegal Sideshows to San Francisco, Oakland What might have been a single, roving sideshow brought cars spinning donuts and spectators to a couple of prominent San Francisco intersections Saturday night and early Sunday.
SF News Vallejo Sideshow Ends With Man Shot, Pickup Truck Torched, 7-Eleven Looted Sunday night saw a particularly lawless sideshow, even for Vallejo, as a man was shot, a pickup truck was set on fire, and a 7-Eleven was ransacked of its beer and lottery scratchers.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sheriff Seizes 90 Cars From Sideshow, Wants to Destroy Them The sheriff in San Joaquin County wants to destroy all 88 cars that his deputies seized in a sideshow last weekend; a boy was killed in a freak accident at a Marin County school; and the power remains out for 35,000 PG&E customers.
SF News Five Separate Sideshows Break Out In Three Bay Area Cities Overnight Sideshows took place in San Francisco, Oakland, and Vallejo on Saturday night, and people at the one in Vallejo even set a Christmas tree ablaze.
SF News Contra Costa County Sideshows Spark Fires and Result in Crash Saturday Night Two separate sideshows in Contra Costa County led to small brush fires, one in Antioch and one in Brentwood that burned about four acres.
SF News Large Sideshows Break Out Overnight In Vallejo, Shots Fired Shots were fired into the air and a couple of spectators were reportedly injured overnight in Vallejo during a mobile sideshow there that took place at two different locations.
SF News Feds Finally Manage to Arrest Sideshow Driver From Infamous Viral AK-47 Image A July 2021 sideshow produced a notorious image of a woman hanging out of the window of a Cadillac brandishing an AK-47. And now, after a two-year investigation, federal prosecutors have finally found and arrested the alleged driver.
SF News Trio of Sideshows Rollicked East Bay Sunday Morning, One Car Ruthlessly Tagged and Set on Fire The East Bay saw three sideshows in a two-and-half-hour span between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning, and at one in Oakland's Redwood Heights, one of the cars was left consumed by flames.
SF News Antioch Sideshow Injures Three, Plows Over Fire Hydrant, Leaves Car In River A very wet ending to a very wild sideshow early Sunday morning in Antioch, where a fire hydrant was knocked over and left gushing, a car flew into the San Joaquin River, and one bystander suffered major injuries.
SF News Alameda County Supervisors Vote to Make It Illegal to Even Watch A Sideshow It is now illegal to so much as even watch a sideshow in Alameda County, and you could get a $1,000 fine or six months in jail for being within 200 feet. But what if you just happened to be there, and weren’t watching the sideshow?
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.