Blaming the victim

The new order: Putting the 20 Questions Ball in charge of TEP

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Blackberry Breaks
Photo by Flickr user rwkvisual Editor’s Note: Rider Eric sent in this diary on the 6, where he couldn’t help but notice a heart wrenching exchange on the Blackberry phone next to him. It’s 6:30pm and I’m getting on the 6 bus to go home. Usually, on my way to work, I catch the underground, but coming home, unless I’m getting produce at the market, I like to get door to fucking door.

Photog-on-photog harrassment
Photo by Flickr user skronk! This bizarre (and we admit, annoying) story comes by way of Muni rider Bhetland: I was riding the Castro underground, going downtown today and this freak lady insisted on taking my picture. It didn’t matter how much I turned around and told her that I didn’t want my picture taken. Never have I felt like h

Recap of Monday’s Muni safety hearing
Photo by Flickr user Steve Rhodes Our first attempt at spreading a Twitter hashtag goes straight to the dustbin of history. Oh, well. We tried. Lucky for us (and you), there are some amazing blogs and great newspeople out there attending these middle-of-the-day hearings so that you can

Muni Cinepoem
LaDonna Witmer sent us the following “cinepoem,” which she shot stealthily on the N-Judah. She is an Outer Sunset resident and says that the N was easily her first choice in picking a backdrop for her poem called “Homogenous.” LaDonna is featured in today’s I Live Here: SF, photographed and curated by the wonderful Julie Michelle. Check it out! Share

iPhone thefts on Muni becoming way too common
Photo by Flickr user Jamison Ed. note: This is seriously the umpteenth time I’ve heard what amounts to the same story: at least two thuggy teenagers coordinate holding the back door open while the other(s) prey upon the (usually female) victim, who is texting or using the web on her iPhone, in a seat or standing by the back door. As this storyteller/wi