Jimbo

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• Commented on Tow Truck Echo Chamber: Ed Lee, David Chiu Think Alike on Apps -- And That's Not All
  You forgot the parenthetical "(which was itself stolen almost entirely from Dennis Herrera's own 17-point jobs plan)" when mentioning Lee's plan. There's nothing original in Lee's campaign at all... kind of like his soon-to-be-over administration....
• Commented on Occupy SF Protester Reportedly Arrested For Smoking Weed
  He was offering "legal counsel." Of course. Because when I need a lawyer, the first one I contact is a guy who lives on a sidewalk with a dirty sleeping bag and calls himself "Gypsy."...
• Commented on Landlords Under Fire In City Attorney's War Against Crack Pipe Sales
  Well if we legalize murder and rape, we'll cut down on the rate of violent crimes. Makes perfect sense, right? Maybe a better solution for your perceived problem (did it ever actually happen?) would be to not park your bike...
• Commented on Off-Duty SFPD Officer Nabs Suspected Drunk Driver In Sausalito
  Why was an off-duty SFPD officer driving a police vehicle in Marin at 10:45 at night? And how can the guy be charged with evading arrest? I don't know if I'd pull over if a guy pulled up at night...
• Commented on SFPD Cracking Down On Pedestrian Safety Violations In SOMA
  Oh this should be good. Let's see if they ticket the hobos who cross intersections diagonally while towing two shopping carts, or the crackheads wandering out into one-way traffic in the middle of a block without looking. That would be...
• Commented on SFPD Correction: Bicyclist Seriously Injured In Collision With Truck At Mission And Fremont
  Unfortunately, no amount of infrastructure improvements will reduce injuries caused by making illegal left-hand turns, as this cyclist was reported to have done....
• Commented on San Francisco Braces For Two Hour Taxi Strike, Others Castigate Livery Service Capitalizing On Unrest
  So I guess I'll be able to walk to lunch today at Union Square without getting almost run over in the crosswalk by cabbies. Can we do this every weekday?...
• Commented on Taxi Drivers Protest At City Hall, Threaten Strike If Credit Card Fees Not Dropped
  Oh no! You mean there'll be fewer hell-bent idiots veering wildly across lanes and running through stale red lights? Gee, I can't even think about the dismal prospect of a few days of a cab-free SF. The dandies might even...
• Commented on Bay To Breakers' Steel-Link Barrier Fence Surprised Us; Was it Good For You? (Poll)
  I thought the fencing was a welcome addition. Surprisingly, it seemed like most of the drunken idiocy was being done by the people behind the fence - who, presumably, were the ones who complained about the supposed peeing and vomiting...
• Commented on Man Falls From Roof At Bay To Breakers Party
  I imagine it might be a little harder now for the Panhandle residents to renew their annual whinging about what an awful bunch of idiots all the B2B participants are....
• Commented on Is Muni Considering Banning Pets From The Bus? Should They?
  Jimbo the lizard??? WTF? ;-)...
• Commented on Police: Cyclist Seriously Injured In Crash With 43 Masonic Muni Bus Was At Fault
  Of course it isn't! Giant vehicles should ALWAYS yield to reckless bike riders whizzing by them from behind with no warning. When will we ever learn?...
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Moving To New York
  Who would ever move back to the snow? Not this transplanted Midwesterner. Seventeen years here, 415 for life....
• Commented on SF Borders Employee Arrested In iPad Email Hack Scheme
  "Goatse Security"??? Come on guys. You couldn't have picked a more attention-getting handle. Are you members of the Lemon Party, by any chance?...
• Commented on Three Teens Arrested In Concord Chicken Choking
  Someone has waited their whole life to write that headline. Well played....
• Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
  Maybe the takeaway from this breakdown is not that the rich people are trying to stomp down the homeless, but that those who don't live in the Mission, the Haight, or the Tenderloin care about what happens to the City...
• Commented on Things That Are Like Death To San Franciscans: Parking
  What are parking problems? - Everyone Who Lives West of Stanyan...
• Commented on One Injured After Glen Park Apartment Fire
  That's Sunnyside, not Glen Park....
• Commented on Daly's Dive Dead: Dispute With Property Owner Ends Supe's Publican Dream
  Maybe he'll have better luck opening a bar in Fairfield....
• Commented on SF Inmate Death Ruled Homicide, Victim's Family Plans Wrongful Death Suit Against Sheriff's Dept
  You are right, Eve - the rest of the story clarifies the point well. Perhaps I'm just too used to reading the SFGate comments page and seeing people jump to too many conclusions from not reading! I can't imagine why...
• Commented on SF Inmate Death Ruled Homicide, Victim's Family Plans Wrongful Death Suit Against Sheriff's Dept
  I think this incident was atrocious and the deputies should be punished, but your lede is somewhat misleading. The word "homicide" does not necessarily mean the death was wrongful. All "homicide" means is the death of one human caused by...
• Commented on Mission Mess: 31 Residents Without Trash Service In 20 Block Span
  "If inspectors found such an assortment of inadequate delights in a zone of 20 blocks, we can only imagine the work that remains to be done throughout the rest of the city." Not really. Much of the area covered by...
• Commented on SFPD Running Pedestrian, Speeding Stings
  Minor correction: pedestrians have the right of way at crosswalks BUT they still have to enter the crosswalk with due care for their own safety, and can't unduly impede or stop traffic while they're crossing (sez Vehicle Code section 21950(b).)...
• Commented on Happy Ending For Victim Of Duboce Park Attack And His Dog, Police Still Seeking Assailant
  I'm completely ashamed that the witnesses at Duboce Park didn't snap that dirtbag's neck right then and there. They pulled him off the victim and then let him go? Next time, exterminate him. This inhuman crap has got to stop....
• Commented on CHP: People Aren't Following Cell Phone Laws
  Nina, if the cops start pulling everyone over on the freeway for going 40, you'll never get your yard done because all the Mexicans will have their crappy overloaded landscaper trucks confiscated. Just wanted you to be forewarned....
• Commented on CHP: People Aren't Following Cell Phone Laws
  Maybe this just proves it was a silly law to begin with. Another empty victory by Mommy Joe Simitian and his worrywart friends....
• Commented on Internet Etiquetteist: I Want My Baby Off Facebook
  There might be more sympathy for parents in this situation if 99% of the parents on Facebook didn't already use their kids' pictures as their own profile pics. That and the Christmas cards without any adults in view have removed...
• Commented on Car Crash Clean Up Fee Approved, Expected To Bring in $626K for City
  Oh yeah, the "insurance companies" will get the bill. For all those insured drivers we have here. What a joke. And yes, why ARE we paying fees for things like fire and paramedic service? That's what cities do, at least...
• Commented on A Lowe's in Bayshore, Boo Or Yay?
  One that realizes that the city is not entirely built out. The lot where Lowe's is being built is nothing but a concrete slab. Besides, if they hadn't razed the previous building, it would have been just stayed an abandoned...
• Commented on A Lowe's in Bayshore, Boo Or Yay?
  YAY times a million. I'm pretty tired of having to schlep out to Daly City because Papenhausen can't stay open past 5:30, or because the local Ace only carries three sizes of vacuum belts....