Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star IShowSpeed Hits SF, Meets Mayor Lurie, Has People Pushed Around, Watches a Sideshow Gen Z YouTube icon IShowSpeed drew Beatlemania-level excitement and received a dignitary’s welcome from Mayor Daniel Lurie in the Bay Area Thursday, though he and his fans were not always on their best behavior.
SF News Mayor Lurie and SFPD Tout Dirt Bike ‘Crackdown’ That Yielded a Measly Four Arrests Daniel Lurie and the SFPD held a press conference Monday to toot their horns over “a crackdown on dangerous stunt driving” of dirt bikes, but the four arrests seems like a drop in the bucket given the huge groups we typically see doing this.
SF News Teen Sideshow Spectator Dies After Attempting to Jump Between Freeway Ramps in East Bay A teenager attending a sideshow fell to his death early Saturday morning while attempting to jump across a gap between freeway ramps in the East Bay suburb of Crockett.
SF News Appeals Court Strikes Down Alameda County Law That Made It Illegal to Even Watch a Sideshow People who gather to watch sideshows garnered an unusual legal win, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just did donuts all over Alameda County’s law saying that it’s a crime to even watch a sideshow, and they struck that law down.
SF News Oakland Police Say They Impounded Six Vehicles Connected to Sunday's Sideshow Near Piedmont The Oakland Police Department wants the public to know that enforcement actions take place well after sideshows occur, even if it doesn't look like police are intervening at the time.
SF News Video: Late-Night Oakland Sideshow Draws Crowd of 500 People, Likely Stolen Car Set on Fire There were at least four major sideshows early Sunday morning, three in Oakland and another in Richmond, but the one near Piedmont in Oakland drew 500 people, went on for three hours, and left a probably stolen Infiniti completely torched.
SF News Supervisor Engardio Gets Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps In the Outer Sunset After a Handful of Sideshows There Sideshows started popping up in the unexpected neighborhood of the normally not-at-all rowdy Outer Sunset in May, and now the district’s Supervisor Joel Engardio has had speed bumps installed there in hopes of bringing the donuts to a halt.
SF News Multi-Hour Sideshows In Oakland End With Three Cars on Fire, One Injured There were sideshows at three different locations in East Oakland Sunday morning that left one person critically injured and at least three cars on fire.
SF News Court Rules Oakland Police Can Be Sued for 2022 Bystander Death A federal appeals court ruled Oakland police can be held liable for the 2022 death of Lolo Soakai, a bystander killed after an unauthorized pursuit—challenging qualified immunity and allowing the family's lawsuit to proceed.
SF News Sideshows Have Made It All the Way Out to the Sunset, and Residents Are Pissed Sideshows, the dangerous, impromptu car-spinning gatherings that were once the purview of East Bay communities alone, have been moving across the bridge in the last couple of years, especially on warm weekends.
SF News Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.
SF News One Motorcycle Rider Killed, Another Injured In San Leandro, After 100 Bikers Disabled Train Arm For some reason, a group of an estimated 100 motorcyclists lifted the no-crossing arm at a train crossing when an incoming train was coming down the tracks in San Leandro Sunday, and a predictable accident and fatality followed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sideshows Migrated Across the Bay Sunday Morning There were sideshows in four Bay Area cities early Sunday, and one briefly shut down the Bay Bridge; the folks looking to recall SF Supervisor Joel Engardio now have a rap theme; and Trump is cozying up to the Saudis on two fronts.
SF News Triple Shooting at Weekend Sideshow In Oakland Leaves One Dead A Sunday evening sideshow led to Oakland's 11th homicide of the month and of the new year, with two other people injured by gunfire.
SF News Sideshow In Oakland Ends With BMW In Flames A roving sideshow early Sunday morning that moved from North Oakland closer to downtown, drawing hundreds of spectators, ended with one car fully engulfed in flames.
SF News Seven Men Indicted For Organizing Bay Area Sideshows Via Instagram San Jose Police announced the arrest of seven men at a news conference Thursday, under the city's three-year-old law that makes it a crime to promote or organize sideshows.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Seizes 16 Cars From Bay Bridge Sideshow Using surveillance footage, the CHP ID'd and seized 16 cars connected to a September Bay Bridge sideshow; the mummified body found on a toilet in Union City has been ID'd; and Rep. Eric Swalwell's war of words with Pamela Price is escalating.
SF News CHP Touts 1,100 Arrests, 2,000 Stolen Cars Recovered In Oakland This Year The governor's office and California Highway Patrol have provided another quarterly update on the CHP's efforts to aid Oakland police on the car-theft and sideshow front.
SF News Rampant Sideshows in Vallejo Early Sunday Morning, One Participants’ Pants Catch on Fire A swarm of sideshows in Vallejo brought multiple injuries early Sunday morning, including one participant who managed to get his pants caught on fire, and Vallejo’s mayor released an odd statement asking “Why don’t these brats do this where their momma lives.”
SF News Amazon Semi Truck Seems to Join In on NorCal Sideshow This seems like a first — an Amazon semi truck appears to have joined in on a recent sideshow in Sacramento, as several revelers jumped on the truck for the ride.
SF News Another 100-Vehicle Sideshow Shut Down the Bay Bridge Saturday Night It's become almost a guarantee that on warm-weather weekends, roving groups of vehicles are going to form sideshows, and one may try to shut down the Bay Bridge.
SF News Dirt Bike Mayhem Swarmed Both Sides of the Bay Sunday; Oakland Store Robbed, Traffic Held Up In SF The motorbike gangs were particularly brazen on both sides of the Bay Sunday afternoon, halting traffic on the Bay Bridge, allegedly robbing a store in Oakland, and creating bedlam in the Castro, Mission District, and North Beach.
SF News Sideshow With Cars, Snake, and a Ring of Fire Leaves One Dead In Vallejo In Vallejo, one person is dead after a sideshow early Saturday morning that included lasers, drones, cars drifting around a ring of fire, and guns fired.
SF News Special SFPD Unit Seizes Multiple Cars Linked to June Sideshow In San Francisco This spring and summer have been part of a very active season for sideshows on both sides of the Bay. And while some communities are passing new laws to crack down on these stunt-driving events, SF police have just seized several vehicles they say took part in one particularly wild sideshow in June.
SF News East Oakland Residents Create Their Own Renegade Barriers to Stop Sideshows, City Promptly Removes Them Tired of sideshows and reckless driving, residents of Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood put tires filled with rocks and dirt in their streets as a deterrent. The City of Oakland quickly removed them.
