Former San Francisco Police Commissioner to Victims of Street Crime: Drop Dead, Snowflake P!ssbabies!

A tech entrepreneur wrote a series of tweets to San Francisco mayor and Tony Toni Tone fan London Breed -- when Tony Toni Tone comes to town, you have to ignore the mask mandates you yourself impose on the population and just feel the music move you, masklessly -- about his employees' car being smashed into. Not only was $10,000 in gear stolen, but their passports as well.

I believe "an offsite" just means an offsite job. I think he means a House Call for a sick computer network, if you will.

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A teammate visiting San Francisco for an offsite called me frantically last night. After dinner at Fisherman's Wharf they came back to a smashed car window and 2 stolen backpacks. $10K in gear lost, passports gone, etc. #SanFrancisco

"Laptop bags were in the trunk, nothing visible from the street", a typical description of a smash & grab, yet thieves were able to find the specific car and knew to pull the rear seat down and reach into the trunk... how?
I explained, "these aren't homeless ransoming smashing windows. These are professionals using blue tooth scanners to find laptop bags. And idle iPad, Bose headphones, etc all emit Bluetooth"
"And let me guess, it was the rear window facing the street, because thieves drive up to the car, open their door, then smash+grab. A witness must be directly behind the thieves RJ see anything, all other views are blocked"
My teammate said his companion was on the phone with the police, to which I said, "they don't care. Maybe they'll show up in a few hours, they'll likely make you go to the station, but this happens thousands of times per week"
So now I need to include a pre-visit security brief to people traveling San Francisco. This is a big reason I'm hesitant to open an office in the city versus keeping a remote team and occasionally meeting up at a location to whiteboard
And my teammates will be scarred forever, being robbed hits you at your core, especially when it's thousands of dollars of loss. There is no downtown recovery without an aggressive push for safety @LondonBreed
The next mayor will win by running on a simple platform: 1, safe neighborhoods; 2, Clean Streets; 3, great public schools

Responding to this was John Hamasaki, a former police commissioner. He quit that post to run for DA against Chesa Boudin. He got 46% of the vote, so he's not a fringe guy, at least to San Franciscans.

You'd think that San Fran's former police commissioner and would-be district attorney would be sympathetic to a crime victim, and join his call for San Francisco to #DoBetter.

You'd be wrong. Completely wrong.

In fact, he tells this guy that crime is central to the experience of living in the city of San Francisco, and the crime victims must be whiny Suburban Pissbabies to be upset their car was broken into and their passports stolen.

Note that these employees are obviously non-US citizens, note, to be carrying their passports with them. So now they're in a foreign country without their passports, and will have to go through a bureaucratic nightmare just to get copies issued, nevermind the coming identity theft.

But Jon Hamasaki's response to this employer is: Tell your f*ggot employees that if they can't handle a little Multicultural, Enriching Street Crime, then go back the suburbs, pussies.

No seriously, that's what this former SF police commissioner says.

Let the cities die. Let nature run her red course.

Posted by: Ace at 04:33 PM

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1 I kind of wish I knew where this guy parked.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 04:33 PM (44ww/)

2 Get out of Democrat cities

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2023 04:36 PM (xhxe8)

3 In fact, he tells this guy that crime is central to the experience of living in the city of San Francisco, and the crime victims must be whiny Suburban Pissbabies to be upset their car was broken into and their passports stolen.

Note that these employees are obviously non-US citizens, note, to be carrying their passports with them. So now they're in a foreign country without their passports, and will have to go through a bureaucratic nightmare just to get copies issued, nevermind the coming identity theft.

dumb people
people who clearly read The Guardian or some similar garbage about how great SanFran or other Dem hellholes are.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:36 PM (uQPen)

4 You can tell me all you want, but I know that property crime, rapes, and violence isn't normal or accepted in western civilization.

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 04:37 PM (5OcwI)

5 Respect for the Law is White Supremacy!

Posted by: Axeman at March 21, 2023 04:37 PM (OaZlZ)

6 Mister, we could use a man like Dirty Harry again.

Posted by: 496 at March 21, 2023 04:37 PM (G6BZv)

7 "Let the cities die. Let nature run her red course."

Nice turn of phrase. 'Let the blood tide be unleashed.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

8 Why would any rational adult with the means to escape LA or SF still be there?

Posted by: Capitol Police at March 21, 2023 04:38 PM (ncXxy)

9 SanFran used to be a travel mecca. LOL
And a conference mecca. I have had to fly there soooo many times for conferences, but I would never go back. Even way back then, the streets were filling up with homeless in front of hotel doors. There would be the doorman, and beside, the homeless.

No control. No protection. No laws.

They deserve every damn thing that happens.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:38 PM (uQPen)

10 Blood Tide is a 1982 British horror film directed by Richard Jefferies, and starring James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove, and Deborah Shelton.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

11 clearing baffles.....

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 21, 2023 04:39 PM (ncXxy)

12 But they do make good sourdough bread there...

Posted by: 496 at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM (U+erF)

13 'Pissbabies' I do not like. Pissholes. Pesthole.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

14 I'll take a ham on saki, hold the mayo.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM (OgrpQ)

15 Daddy, tell me that one again when people thought we could vote our way out of this.

Posted by: Little Boy circa 2025 at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM (pZK/l)

16 Willis Reed has left the court for the last time at the age of 80.

No heroic return to battle the dark power of the Lakers.

RIP big man…

Posted by: browndog on his phone at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM (CCSxw)

17 Blood Tide is a 1982 British horror film directed by Richard Jefferies, and starring James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove, and Deborah Shelton.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

Great Lovecraftian B flick.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (OgrpQ)

18 Is dying violently central to the experience pf living in Chicago?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (eGTCV)

19 I believe "an offsite" just means an offsite job. I think he means a House Call for a sick computer network, if you will.
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At my Big Tech Company, "offsite" refers to an "offsite meeting." It's when the big shots or a special project group rally at some location - sometimes it's the HQ, sometimes it's a field office - and meet with each other to set strategy, establish time tables, do goal-setting for the year, etc. Most or all of the people are away from their usual site, using dedicated space and time to accomplish the goal of the meeting.

In a political context, it would usually be called a "summit."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)

20 The next mayor will win by running on a simple platform: 1, safe neighborhoods; 2, Clean Streets; 3, great public schools

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No. The next mayor will win by being as woke as possible, receiving millions of Big Tech donor dollars, and flooding the zone with negative ads against the guy who wants to clean up San Francisco.

I mean...that guy will hate the gays.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (LvTSG)

21 Democrats suck.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (yQpMk)

22 In 2019 I worked for a company that did conference events. I heard a female project manager there said SF never again.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 04:42 PM (44ww/)

23 Craig Ferguson used to say the smell of urine was central to the experience of living in NYC.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 21, 2023 04:42 PM (eGTCV)

24 "I've been robbed 10 times in a city where it's my job to do something about crime" ain't the flex you might think it is.

"I have the biggest white flag of anybody on my block!"

Posted by: Axeman at March 21, 2023 04:42 PM (OaZlZ)

25 21 Democrats suck.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (yQpMk)

But hey, they don't discriminate. Ask Don Lemon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

26 clearing baffles.....
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 21, 2023 04:39 PM (ncXxy)

CRAZY IVAN!!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2023 04:42 PM (yQpMk)

27 John Hammaski > Richard Kiyosaki

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (OgrpQ)

28 There is an easy fix. My sister and husband in Atlanta no longer lock the doors on their vehicles because they got tired of replacing broken windows.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (iayUP)

29 That guy is such a tool, he made me forget all about bread. I hope karma gets him good and hard, the fucker.

Posted by: gp Declines 2024 Nomination at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (MvF+J)

30 I've always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

Sounds to me like you're in denial.

Or maybe you're a fucking retard.

Posted by: spindrift at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (h5TKJ)

31 What kind of hellhole are you running there if this ISN'T the worst thing that's ever happened to you?

How STUPID do you have to be to put up with it as if it is some sort of edifying experience?

Posted by: Just Lily at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (IM1lj)

32 So General Hummel should have released the VX gas on SF in "The Rock", regardless if he got the money?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (Rl7KJ)

33 Good, let the cities implode.

BTW, Mark Rober has a video which shows exactly how the SF car thieves operate. It's not random crackheads, it's well executed organized crime. I think it was in his latest glitter bomb video.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (mGabY)

34 Get some blue enclaves. Get some. Get some good and hard.

Posted by: Archer at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (gmo/4)

35 30 I've always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

Sounds to me like you're in denial.

Or maybe you're a fucking retard.
Posted by: spindrift at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (h5TKJ)

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Was that Joe Xiden?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

36 "City life ain't for you, pussy! If you think that rampant property crime and filth are in some way reflective of poor public safety, you're just a white bred sissy mary who can't take the heat. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen, you coward!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (t0OGg)

37 My company just instituted a 2 factor authentication step for us to access salesforce.

The roll out has been less than stellar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (zZu0s)

38 But they do make good sourdough bread there...
Posted by: 496 at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM (U+erF)

back to bread...

the soup bowls... clam chowder nom nom (to be honest, a schtick, because I never at the bread bowl itself - who does?)

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (uQPen)

39
Property is capitalism is racism is murder.

Perfectly proper reaction by this esteemed officer of our law.

Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (QarLh)

40
Willis Reed has left the court for the last time at the age of 80.

No heroic return to battle the dark power of the Lakers.

RIP big man…

Posted by: browndog on his phone at March 21, 2023 04:40 PM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (ENBF0)

41 How long before the Joseph Goebbels media completely stops reporting on crime in deep blue sh*tholes like San Francisco?

Posted by: Mhandisi at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (SKxfg)

42 Dirty Harry has realized his limitations

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (RHGPo)

43 Good. More Please.

It's 2023 under the reign of The Deep State and their puppet, Joe Biden.

You live, work or visit a democrat area, you get it in the keister. Stop complaining and enjoy!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (OgB1i)

44 So General Hummel should have released the VX gas on SF in "The Rock", regardless if he got the money?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (Rl7KJ)

Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (OgrpQ)

45 I agree with Mr. Hamasaki. It's much worse when someone breaks into your house while you are home and hits you in the head with a hammer when your wife is away.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (dTFZY)

46 33 Good, let the cities implode.

BTW, Mark Rober has a video which shows exactly how the SF car thieves operate. It's not random crackheads, it's well executed organized crime. I think it was in his latest glitter bomb video.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (mGabY)

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Mark Rober is an affable guy, but he obviously supports any leftist position that comes along. He did a glorified infomercial for Bill Gates' fake meat shit.

That he can't believe that San Francisco continues to degrade into lawlessness, his own hometown, is indicative of a very smart person in one area (engineering) simply not having the knowledge in others (public policy).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

47 Let the cities die. Let nature run her red course.
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They're dying. Their death can - and should - be avoided, but it won't be. Like with an addict, change has to come from within.

There is some possibility of external redemption if a city goes bankrupt and ruthless city manager is installed by the state government, but that is only a possibility in a "red state" and even then, it is just a distant possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (t0OGg)

48 I had to threaten to ass whip a couple of skels the one time I was in SF back in 1998, but otherwise, it was the funnest business trip I ever made.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (yQpMk)

49 Banzai!

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (OTXUv)

50 Yeah, "offsite" probably meant offsite meeting at a restaurant or bar.

So they would still have their work machine with them.

Posted by: Axeman at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (OaZlZ)

51 Somebody stole a floor jack and a compressor hose from me one time, not while I was living here. I would have been pissed, but the jack leaked down and the hose had a hole in it.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

52 Notice he doesn't discuss the murder on the pier...
Kate Steinle killed by an illegal.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (uQPen)

53 I've always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

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Read that again.

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (5OcwI)

54 Leftists literally believe that crime is the natural and correct occupation of black people. You can figure it out from almost everything they say now.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (ZGrMX)

55 41 How long before the Joseph Goebbels media completely stops reporting on crime in deep blue sh*tholes like San Francisco?
Posted by: Mhandisi at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (SKxfg)

They pretty much already are embargoing. See Chicago or any other mass gang shooting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (zZu0s)

56 That guy needs a healthy dose of his own medicine. The violent kind.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (TU8Tj)

57 I wonder how this jerk of a "law enforcement officer" would respond to how we do things in the country which is to shoot first and wait for the Sheriff to arrive an hour later. I'd bet his pearls would die of strangulation.

Posted by: mikethemoose at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (AmpGx)

58 I guess I would laugh like a little girl if Hackensack got his house broken into several times over the next year or so. No one hurt. Just plenty o'property crime. Maybe shitting on his pillow for good measure.

Crime does happen, but there's zero excuse to pretend that its the normal state of affairs and everyone should lie still and think of England till it's over.

Just for laughs, I'd like to see someone run in SF on a strict, a very very strict platform of public safety and harsh sentences for criminals.

And see how they did in the upcoming election cycle.

I think the results would surprise everyone.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (L1tQx)

59 54 Leftists literally believe that crime is the natural and correct occupation of black people. You can figure it out from almost everything they say now.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (ZGrMX)

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Conservatives are racist for thinking black people can be non-violent, productive members of society.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

60

I hope this guy gets buttfucked to death by AIDS poxed hyenas while simultaneously drinking molten lead...

Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (hCW0c)

61 At my Big Tech Company, "offsite" refers to an "offsite meeting." It's when the big shots or a special project group rally at some location - sometimes it's the HQ, sometimes it's a field office - and meet with each other to set strategy, establish time tables, do goal-setting for the year, etc. Most or all of the people are away from their usual site, using dedicated space and time to accomplish the goal of the meeting.

In a political context, it would usually be called a "summit."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)

exactly
it is away from official location
where all gather
usually a lot of partying

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (uQPen)

62 I'm legit surprised he didn't call a massive theft like that a Blessing of Liberty.

Look how superior the urban bugmen are compared to you rural retards who like personal safety and property rights.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (mGabY)

63 “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.”

Fuck, of course it was Yeats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

64 I figure a good way to get rid of old electronics is just leave them in your car with the doors unlocked.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (iayUP)

65 60

I hope this guy gets buttfucked to death by AIDS poxed hyenas while simultaneously drinking molten lead...
Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (hCW0c)

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I hope he becomes San Fran's next mayor. They deserve him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

66 So now I need to include a pre-visit security brief to people traveling San Francisco. This is a big reason I'm hesitant to open an office in the city versus keeping a remote team and occasionally meeting up at a location to whiteboard
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Should have been doing it anyway. I have mentioned this before, but I work for a Silicon Valley firm. When I visit the head office, I fly through SFO. In 2018, the company started forbidding rental cars for people visiting the HQ. Uber or taxi for all transportation. It costs more than a rental to do it this way, but the reason for the rule is this kind of crime.

Rental cars are easy to spot and often have good stuff in them. Since I work for a big company, it self-insures and so is on the hook for damage to rentals. The costs of broken windows and the costs of stolen equipment were so high - and the events leading to them so commonplace - that they just pulled the plug on car rentals entirely. Switching everything to expensive cabs and ubers was a significant net savings to the company.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (t0OGg)

67 Great choices for D.A.--would you like the Jacobin or the Bolshevik?

Posted by: MikeG at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (VsUo2)

68 The problem is, they pour into places like Arizona. And they don't have an epiphany for why they had to move.

They roll in, think nothing of paying 7 figures for house (because that's an outhouse in the Bay Area), shower the local dems with campaign cash and ruin yet another red state. Locusts that go from one place to the next.

There's just so many Californians and it never seems to stop.

Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (cOFom)

69 51 Somebody stole a floor jack and a compressor hose from me one time, not while I was living here. I would have been pissed, but the jack leaked down and the hose had a hole in it.
Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

God has a sense of humor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM (zZu0s)

70 >Was that Joe Xiden?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

It's within the realm of possibility. Everything clicked into place when he let it slip that he is a SF tech bro.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM (mGabY)

71 exactly
it is away from official location
where all gather
usually a lot of partying
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (uQPen)
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Ours are usually at an official location, just with the non-local participants (the majority of participants, usually) flying in. But we usually use our own offices and conference rooms and whatnot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM (t0OGg)

72 I've always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

Sounds like a masochist.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM (uQPen)

73 Gee, I wonder if Hamasaki ran around in an ordinary car while commissioner or he had a chauffeured and armored limo?

Posted by: J Nadler at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM (2YtOq)

74 Seth Rogan in 2021: Dude I’ve lived here [in LA] for over 20 years. You’re nuts haha. It’s lovely here. Don’t leave anything valuable in it. It’s called living in a big city.

You can be mad but I guess I don’t personally view my car as an extension of myself and I’ve never really felt violated any of the 15 or so times my car was broken in to. Once a guy accidentally left a cool knife in my car so if it keeps happening you might get a little treat.

Posted by: Fed Up at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (uZn/X)

75 "you're just a white bred sissy mary who can't take the heat. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen, you coward!"

I guess everyone can start calling me sissy mary. although I'm pretty partial to saltine-american!

And yeah, Hamasaki, I've had guns pointed at me and bombs put in my car, my kids threatened, my life threatened, and I survived it. But it did scar me and my kids, and I'm doing everything I can to put us in a safe place where it won't happen again. And that place is very far from you.

Posted by: Moki at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (JrN/x)

76 I have never understood when people say a place "feels" safe, especially in response to a violent event or statistics showing an area is unsafe.

i UseD tO lIve jUsT Down The sTreeT FROm theRE. I'vE BEEn tHere 1,000 TimEs and I neVER feLT unSafe.

Ok, Spidey. I guess I should defer to your feelings and ignore the crowd of fentanyl addicts shooting up and occasionally stabbing each other. Your feelings are definitely probative.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (V1QHJ)

77 "Is this what suburbs do to you?" What an a-hole.
Blue city-dwellers often boast about how tough you gotta be to live in inhuman conditions.
They're not tough, though. They are cowering apologists for the monsters who beat them down, again and again.
That's not tough.
"If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere! ... It's up to YOU ... "
Stick a sock in it. You ain't making it there - you're getting robbed and run over.

Posted by: Coki at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (meTku)

78 Flee the cities

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (lEVn+)

79 >Mark Rober is an affable guy, but he obviously supports any leftist position that comes along. He did a glorified infomercial for Bill Gates' fake meat shit.

That he can't believe that San Francisco continues to degrade into lawlessness, his own hometown, is indicative of a very smart person in one area (engineering) simply not having the knowledge in others (public policy).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

He strikes me as an earnest autist (given that his son is on the spectrum, it's quite possible), so I give him some slack. However, your second paragraph is dead-nuts on.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (mGabY)

80 78 Flee the cities
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (lEVn+)

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Run away!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

81 And I hope Jon Hamasaki bleeds out from a gut shot and I hope I get to watch it happen on a livestream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (lEVn+)

82 There's just so many Californians and it never seems to stop.
Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 04:47 PM (cOFom)
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California has successfully colonized the Interior West at this point, and they have limitless wells of potential colonists because the state's massive population.

We will see how things go outside of the Interior West. Some of the demography indicates that the newer waves (and from places like NY and NJ) are refugees rather than colonists, but I have no idea if that's true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (t0OGg)

83 I've had guns pointed at me and bombs put in my car

Wut?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (V1QHJ)

84 51 Somebody stole a floor jack and a compressor hose from me one time, not while I was living here. I would have been pissed, but the jack leaked down and the hose had a hole in it.
Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

God has a sense of humor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD "

I still felt violated that someone would come in my yard and steal my shit, even if it was actual shit.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (iayUP)

85 /off waddling gunt sock

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (2YtOq)

86 Ours are usually at an official location, just with the non-local participants (the majority of participants, usually) flying in. But we usually use our own offices and conference rooms and whatnot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM (t0OGg)

I guess it also depends on where you work.
We had offsites by renting mountain rentals, or places like that. Remote, with a set schedule and goals, but lots of time to play.
I had some on the beach with a smaller group.
But we were the gaming community. A different animal.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (uQPen)

87 It's within the realm of possibility. Everything clicked into place when he let it slip that he is a SF tech bro.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 04:48 PM

Ah. That explains it.

Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (xttsV)

88 Caning is a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore. It can be divided into several contexts: judicial, prison, reformatory, military, school, and domestic. These practices of caning as punishment were introduced during the period of British colonial rule in Singapore.

Embrace diversity.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (OTXUv)

89 Of course, it is a city of SnM freaks, so maybe Hamasaki gets off on getting the shit beat out of him by strangers.

Posted by: spindrift at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (h5TKJ)

90 I don't disagree with anything in this post. Hamasaki sounds like a gaped, protruding asshole. He has a remarkably punchable face.

But it seems like this dude did his foreign coworkers a disservice. These stories about SF are not new. Why would he or his employer have not told them not to do this very stupid thing.

Maybe it's my brief experience in the army, where everyone steals anything that is not secured and sometimes things that are, but who leaves all their valuables laying around like this?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (ppBhU)

91 Leave your blue state for a red state........... But do not vote the same was as you did in those Liberal Blue State Biden Holes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 21, 2023 04:51 PM (/Qz4j)

92 It's really safe in Downtown Detroit after dark...

...Because no one is there, so there's no reason for criminals to prowl for victims.

(NOTE: Don't ACTUALLY go to Downtown Detroit after dark.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 21, 2023 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

93 Star Wars Ewok actor is mort.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)

94 And I hope Jon Hamasaki bleeds out from a gut shot and I hope I get to watch it happen on a livestream.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (lEVn+)

Just like TDS, he will probably say, it was worth the price. Not kidding. These people are literally mentally sick and belong in a mental institution on massive drugs.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (uQPen)

95 I guess it also depends on where you work.
We had offsites by renting mountain rentals, or places like that. Remote, with a set schedule and goals, but lots of time to play.
I had some on the beach with a smaller group.
But we were the gaming community. A different animal.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (uQPen)
++++
That's how our offsites were in the Before Times. The company grew up and they kept the name even though it didn't really apply anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (t0OGg)

96 I kind of wish I knew where this guy parked.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 04:33 PM

You were Foist. And the thread winner. Well done.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (GDJBM)

97 Star Wars Ewok actor is mort.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)

Warwick Davis?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (OgrpQ)

98 I'm wondering if this happened to CNN whether or not they would report on it?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (Jg7EG)

99 Flee the cities
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:49 PM (lEVn+)

=======

Run away!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

Join an anarcho-syndicalist commune!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:53 PM (lEVn+)

100 Sure says something when you acclimate to crime.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2023 04:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

101 Tony Toni Tone

*********

Two questions:

1. Is that one person or three?

2. Are all three pronounced the same or is the "e" silent?

3. Did he/they do a version of Bony Maronie? 'cause that would be awesome.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2023 04:53 PM (ykeLU)

102 I bet Hamasaki would cry like a bitch if someone shot one of the Scat Franshitsco's criminals.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (17s+e)

103 99 Run away!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

Join an anarcho-syndicalist commune!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:53 PM (lEVn+)

=========

Own large tracts of land!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

104 "You'd think that San Fran's former police commissioner and would-be district attorney would be sympathetic to a crime victim, and join his call for San Francisco to #DoBetter."

You'd think. But this is San Francisco.

The "Police Commission" is a civilian "oversight" board that conducts disciplinary hearings on charges of police misconduct. The kind of people who are appointed to the Commission are left-wing activists who are itching to "hold police accountable."

God, I hate the words "accountable" and "accountability" as they are used these days. The kind of people who like to use those vague terms have totally different things in mind when they consider "accountability" for police officers who made split-second decisions in stressful situations and "accountability" for criminals victimizing the innocent.

As for his DA run, he ran to replace Boudin, and said he'd be different from Boudin but he was the candidate that Boudin's supporters gravitated to.

Posted by: Alex at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (YjiAb)

105 Flea the cities.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (44ww/)

106 81 And I hope Jon Hamasaki bleeds out from a gut shot and I hope I get to watch it happen on a livestream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (lEVn+)

I don't give two damns about him. There's a reason I don't live in a city. And if crime is an issue for someone, well, they probably chose poorly moving into a city.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (KbCG3)

107 Red states and cities simply need to avoid any financial transactions and interaction with Blue enclaves. In addition to the crime, stunts like tomorrow's indictment of Trump need to be met with full-blown economic boycotts. No one should have offices outside of San Francisco answering calls to the city any longer.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (KSNKu)

108 Maybe it's my brief experience in the army, where everyone steals anything that is not secured and sometimes things that are, but who leaves all their valuables laying around like this?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (ppBhU)

everything should be in a faraday bag or case at this point

I have all the sizes, for laptops, phones, and you can stick your fobs in them. My travel purse is also protected. I trust no one now.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (uQPen)

109 I think "scarred forever" is taking things a bit too far, but in this 13-year-old-girl culture its not surprising. A bunch of girls messed around with a oujia board and ended up going to the hospital because they got scared.

The hospital.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (0hOvj)

110 (NOTE: Don't ACTUALLY go to Downtown Detroit after dark.)
---------------
Downtown may be safer than prowling the former suburbs of Detroit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (OTXUv)

111 "I've had my window broken 2x...but it had zero impact on my sense of public safety"--John Hamasaki

Well, if you have zero sense of public safety to begin with, they yeah.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

112 > Warwick Davis?

No, a different guy. Paul Grant. He was also a goblin in Harry Potter.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (V1QHJ)

113
Wut?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:50 PM (V1QHJ)

overseas in terrorist infested realms. I was visible and more accessible than the ambassador so I got targeted. It happens. My first boss was one of the hostages in Tehran, the full 444 days. He couldn't take being overseas again with such threats and had to curtail. A good man and a good officer. Hamasaki is full of curdled milk.

Posted by: Moki at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (JrN/x)

114 If they know exactly how the thieves are targeting their marks by scanning for Bluetooth, they could easily set up a sting and catch a bunch of these criminals and once the word got out that they were doing that, it would be a bit of a deterrent. But they won't because they are on the side of the criminals rather than civil society.

Posted by: Jon at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (Jt9RE)

115 97 Paul Grant. Guessing he was an ewok.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (MvF+J)

116 Getting use to crime is not enough. You should be cold, broke and hungry like homeless people to get the full urban experience. What, are you a suburban pussy?

Posted by: Ripley at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (cUYo/)

117 Flea the cities.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 04:54 PM (44ww/)

Sit on the Fleas.

Think Differently!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (L1tQx)

118 I was driving down the main drag in my town (it's a small city about 20 minutes outside of the nearby bigger city) and went past a construction site. Some new building is going up. Next to the earthworks were piles of materials. Mostly concrete piping and culvert material, and some I-beams. They were just sitting there. No fences, no guards, etc. Just stacked neatly to be ready for the work to come.

And I thought to myself, "this is nice. I live in a place where things left out in the open remain where they're left. They aren't stolen. They aren't covered in graffiti. The stuff doesn't need to have fences erected and guards posted to protect it because we're all fairly civilized here. This is much better than the shithole where I used to live where construction material theft was endemic."

But I guess I'm a pussy for liking my life in a peaceful place rather than dodging vagrants and needles while counting down to the next time my house or car is burgled.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (t0OGg)

119 I keep all my shit in a bag of holding.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (yQpMk)

120 Lefties love them some chaos.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (DcKNO)

121 101 Tony Toni Tone

*********

Two questions:

1. Is that one person or three?

2. Are all three pronounced the same or is the "e" silent?

3. Did he/they do a version of Bony Maronie? 'cause that would be awesome.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2023 04:53 PM (ykeLU)

Three
Same pronunciation
Only if it 'feels good'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (lEVn+)

122 In the 80's and 90's we used to take family vacations in San Francisco. Especially Chinatown. I remember being there for the first time and it being literally the first time in my life where I was part of the majority [Chinese] there. Now, there is no way I or my family will ever go again. It is not safe and it most definitely is not part of our country anymore.

The last time I was in California at all was for a function at the Naval Postgraduate School, and there I felt relatively safe. But most of California from the coast to about 100 miles inland is hostile territory.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (l0x+/)

123 I do think that having my stuff robbed would in fact count against my feeling of public safety though. That's the in very definition of public safety: not getting robbed.

I mean, our house got robbed and my brother's car stolen and we aren't even in a bad part of town. It affects your sense of how things are being run. How safe your neighborhood is and what the town is like.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (0hOvj)

124 "I've had my window broken 2x...but it had zero impact on my sense of public safety"--John Hamasaki

Well, if you have zero sense of public safety to begin with, they yeah.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

well, if a taxpayer pays for the damages...

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (uQPen)

125 Any city run by D's is gonna be a dangerous place. If not to your wallet, then to your safety.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

126 "but who leaves all their valuables laying around like this?"

In my city, idiots leave their cars running, unlocked, in convenience store parking lots, with their kids in the back seat. I shit you not.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (MvF+J)

127 Likewise, the creaking polity called the USA in our time spawned many new incarnations of John Law as it transitioned from being “the arsenal of democracy” — you know, making real things — to a land of make-believe, where unicorns galloped over rainbows conjured by computer magic and utopian wishes of equity, diversity and inclusion.

The overhang of previously amassed wealth kept those dreams going long after we discontinued the rough and messy business of making stuff, and thereby generating real wealth. But now a klaxon blares, signaling the end of dream-time, and the nation wakes up in a ramshackle house with the floor giving way under the bed.

The rot was plain to see in the banking architecture built on U.S. Treasury paper (bills, notes, bonds) as rising interest rates undercut the price of all the debt paper issued previously at lower rates. And this was the collateral that banks generally held the depositors’ money in.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (RHGPo)

128 So dipshit gets his car broken into and was on the wrong end of violent crime. Yet he feels safe? He's been conditioned to accept crime as a trade off to live in that shit hole. So be it, soak in it, lounge in it, roll around in it like a dog, make a feces angel, breathe it in. Enjoy your stupidity, wear it like a warm coat. May the rest of your fellow citizens and voters do the same. One condition. Stay there, forever. Literally. And don't ask for a penny.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (GDJBM)

129 > everything should be in a faraday bag or case at this point

It's not just the Bluetooth scanners. The thieves know what rental cars look like and they know where tourists park. They break windows and pop the trunk because they're looking for luggage bags. Luggage bags have laptops, passports, tablets, phones, prescription drugs, etc.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (V1QHJ)

130 Welcome mat out in San Francisco I see....

Posted by: Hillary.. Hic at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (bs+z0)

131 Reason #12,358 of why I'm glad I live in OK.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (BdMk6)

132 My Oakland friend started leaving her doors unlocked after some idiots smashed her window to steal laundry detergent.

Posted by: Coki at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (meTku)

133 I tried Cutthroat Island on Sunday. I only made it 20 minutes.

Geena Davis is cute but not hot or commanding. I may pick up Long Kiss Goodnight to revisit that opinion.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (44ww/)

134 123 I do think that having my stuff robbed would in fact count against my feeling of public safety though. That's the in very definition of public safety: not getting robbed.

I mean, our house got robbed and my brother's car stolen and we aren't even in a bad part of town. It affects your sense of how things are being run. How safe your neighborhood is and what the town is like.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 04:56 PM (0hOvj)

If you saw the robbery, I'd suggest saying you shot the robber, but that would get you arrested for filing a false report when the police got there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

135 When more than 50% of citizens are committing property and violent crime, this is the kind of leadership the city demands. Pure criminality with no consequences.

If you are a hard working and law abiding citizen get out. These progressive communists are telling you that YOU DO NOT matter to them.

The writing is on the wall.

Posted by: Czech Chick at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (6Tc2R)

136 Crime is really low hanging fruit for Republicans to go after. We basically got our majority in the House from Republican in NY running on this issue.

Of course, Trump threw out all sorts of credibility on this issue when he let BLM protests burn cities down and decided to allow Kushner to free all the inmates (criminal justice reform) in the hope it would get rappers to endorse him.

Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (cOFom)

137 I've always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

Sounds to me like you're in denial.

Or maybe you're a fucking retard.

Posted by: spindrift at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM (h5TKJ)
===

Or most likely a LIAR.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (17s+e)

138 All this Midwesterner can say is: Geez Louise.

Posted by: pookysgirl, living the small-town life at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (dtlDP)

139 Like the truth, justice is not a value of the left.

(And I'm not talking about that "social" justice bullshit.)

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (DcKNO)

140 > Tony Toni Tone fan

They're still a thing? Huh. And what the hell is up with that name "London Breed", anyway? That would seem excessively cheesy in a James Bond novel, you know, along with "Pussy Galore", "Honey Ryder", and "Holly Goodhead".

> Is this what the suburbs do to you?

No, it's what living in an actual civilization that's not overrun with feral, barbaric savages does to you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (bW8dp)

141 Minor correction...

Hamasaki ran to replace Boudin after he had been recalled over the summer.

POS regardless, though.

Posted by: Art Griego at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (0PUU9)

142

He should be impregnated with a 10 ft long 3-in diameter pine post... Carefully angled to exit at the right shoulder joint he might linger for hours... Days... Well Ravens pick it as eyeballs and weasels emasculate his pecker...

Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (hCW0c)

143 When I was younger, my family participated in this program called the Fresh Air Fund. Kids from the Bronx would come upstate and spend a few weeks living there to get away from the city.

This kid David came and stayed with us a few summers (he was murdered when he was 12) and we were real close, but man, I couldn't relate to him at all. The shit that he had seen and done was unreal. And even if he was lying, there's no way a suburban white kid could even think up those lies.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (KbCG3)

144 It's not just the Bluetooth scanners. The thieves know what rental cars look like and they know where tourists park. They break windows and pop the trunk because they're looking for luggage bags. Luggage bags have laptops, passports, tablets, phones, prescription drugs, etc.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (V1QHJ)
++++
Yup. Rental vehicles are easy to spot and if you're looking for a target of opportunity - to get some good stuff for resale - they're a good choice. Often you'll find nice luggage and electronics in a rental car.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (t0OGg)

145 106 81
I give the same kind of damn that MAE does.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (roH4R)

146 136 Crime is really low hanging fruit for Republicans to go after. We basically got our majority in the House from Republican in NY running on this issue.

Of course, Trump threw out all sorts of credibility on this issue when he let BLM protests burn cities down and decided to allow Kushner to free all the inmates (criminal justice reform) in the hope it would get rappers to endorse him.
Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 04:58 PM (cOFom)

========

Crime is a local issue, and the localities that love it keep voting for it. It's not a federal issue.

The only solutions are at the state level. Getting red legislatures and governors to go in and do everything possible to lessen the political power of cities.

Accurate census counts, voter rolls, and student rolls at schools would gut more than one city's power within a state, I suspect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

147 But we should all support the blue. Amiright?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (DMyTF)

148 This busty blonde is glad she doesn't live in San Francisco.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (t0OGg)

149 https://is.gd/KfZ6Y8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (t0OGg)

150 My Oakland friend started leaving her doors unlocked after some idiots smashed her window to steal laundry detergent.
Posted by: Coki at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (meTku)

I think I heard many people in San Fran and/or NY are doing this now. It's too expensive to keep fixing the cars. Incredible.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (uQPen)

151 148 This busty blonde is glad she doesn't live in San Francisco.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (t0OGg)

========

She's gone! The thieves have stolen her!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)

152 I may pick up Long Kiss Goodnight to revisit that opinion.

That is a good movie, Cutthroat Island is just terrible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (0hOvj)

153 I've had my window broken 2x...but it had zero impact on my sense of public safety"--John Hamasaki

-

This is very telling.

This isn't even investigated any more. I doubt it's even considered "crime"

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (hxPC2)

154 148 This busty blonde is glad she doesn't live in San Francisco.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (t0OGg)

This has to be barrel worthy.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (KbCG3)

155 Be a real shame if celebrate-crime-dude was robbed, kidnapped, and serially raped Man illegal alien celebrate-sanctuary-city San Francisco gang while they played "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Might even scar me for life ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (DGu1s)

156 "but who leaves all their valuables laying around like this?"

Here in Shithole, every damn winter our fool citizens let their cars warm up in their driveways unattended, and the gangstas patrol all the neighborhoods, starting before dawn, looking for the exhaust smoke. We make it EASY for the thugs to strike. We're so easy, the thugs come from 100 miles away to prey on us.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:01 PM (MvF+J)

157 This busty blonde is glad she doesn't live in San Francisco.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (t0OGg)

Well, sure. She's invisible.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2023 05:01 PM (L1tQx)

158 149 https://is.gd/KfZ6Y8
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (t0OGg)

I can get behind that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 05:01 PM (lEVn+)

159 Just typical day on the NY subway system:

https://tinyurl.com/4c4nd4jw

Goes to Daily Mail

Posted by: Archer at March 21, 2023 05:01 PM (gmo/4)

160 London Breed... Another one of my "favorites."

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (bs+z0)

161 > These practices of caning as punishment

Or, in the case of the British, sometimes for pleasure.

There's a reason why the French call BDSM "Le vice anglais".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (bW8dp)

162 Joe: 148-149

She looks Michelle Pfeiffer-ish.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (sAmhv)

163 Crime is really low hanging fruit for Republicans to go after. We basically got our majority in the House from Republican in NY running on this issue.

"Not the hill to die on. This is not who we are!!"
--GOPe

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (0hOvj)

164 The situation is getting worse, and isn't going to turn back to security anytime soon.

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (xhxe8)

165 But I guess I'm a pussy for liking my life in a peaceful place rather than dodging vagrants and needles while counting down to the next time my house or car is burgled.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (t0OGg)

Hamasaki is reverse virtue signaling: hey, look at me, I live among criminals and I'm a tough guy! Look at me, living among chaos, diversity, and open air drug markets! Yay, me! It's the same nonsense you see from Antifa, for example, except it is doing the crime to stick it to the man.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (KSNKu)

166 Here in Shithole, every damn winter our fool citizens let their cars warm up in their driveways unattended, and the gangstas patrol all the neighborhoods, starting before dawn, looking for the exhaust smoke. We make it EASY for the thugs to strike. We're so easy, the thugs come from 100 miles away to prey on us.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:01 PM (MvF+J)

That should be like hunting over a baited field.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (yQpMk)

167 151 148 This busty blonde is glad she doesn't live in San Francisco.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 04:59 PM (t0OGg)

========

She's gone! The thieves have stolen her!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)

----

You Bastards!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (3H6Q4)

168 When I lived in the Philippines in the early to mid 80s, the GIs all joked that, "Everything is stolen, it just hasn't been picked up yet."

SF residents are learning what it feels like to live in a third world shithole.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (V1QHJ)

169 so I suggest an entrepreneur develop the "San Fran Box", a steel box with unique unbeatable lock, that fits in a trunk, bolts to the frame. Any break in attempts trigger bear spray.

OR, boycott these trash cities.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (Cus5s)

170 If you had both hands on the keyboard, this wouldn't happen.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (Jg7EG)

171 "Of course, Trump threw out all sorts of credibility on this issue when he let BLM protests burn cities down and decided to allow Kushner to free all the inmates (criminal justice reform) in the hope it would get rappers to endorse him."

Yup. Not to mention $500B Platinum Plan to try to appease the thugs.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:02 PM (MvF+J)

172 30 I've always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

Sounds to me like you're in denial.

Or maybe you're a fucking retard.
Posted by: spindrift at March 21, 2023 04:43 PM

Embrace my power!

Posted by: And at March 21, 2023 05:03 PM (JCZqz)

173 What will Hamasaki think when people who are not pissbabies inflict street justice on criminals?

Posted by: Dave at March 21, 2023 05:03 PM (nLwaa)

174 “After the vaccines came out, there was this uptick in unusual symptoms, some of which I had never seen in my 20-year career,” Conrad said. “In every case, it was in somebody who had received the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Conrad said she had never admitted an adult patient with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) until the COVID-19 vaccines.
“And every patient who came in with RSV was vaccinated for COVID,” Conrad said. “It wasn’t normal.”
Then, there were the adolescents with no previous medical conditions who had gotten the COVID-19 vaccine a week prior and, suddenly, they were struck with pneumonia and not able to function, she said.
“They weren’t able to walk or eat, and they were completely and totally fatigued,” Conrad said.
This was in 2021 before myocarditis was being discussed," she said.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:03 PM (RHGPo)

175 Just typical day on the NY subway system: ...
Posted by: Archer at March 21, 2023 05:01 PM (gmo/4)
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It is unclear where the train was headed, but no other passengers were being verbally attacked as the man's hate-filled rant continued. 'You are dog in this country, shut up... I am black American,' he says as he raises his hand, 'I am over you.'

He is doing as he was taught to do, every day in public school and every minute of pop culture he has consumed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 05:03 PM (t0OGg)

176 3 years ago, I was fortunate enough to get out of Philly after living there for most of my life. I simply grew tired of stepping over the homeless person who decided to start sleeping on my porch every morning.I sold my cramped, 900 sq. ft. South Philly rowhouse to a pair of Millennials for 300 K plus (I had paid 80 k for it in 2002), and moved across the river to Jersey. The rural, Red part, 30 minutes away from the city. I quickly got used to the quiet life. I only go back to visit my relatives. If that makes me a coward, so be it.

Posted by: HUNTER at March 21, 2023 05:03 PM (uZ4Ij)

177 If they actually did defund the police these cities would have a chance to become civilized again. By not defunding thoroughly the city's citizen is being held hostage by the police and no positive hygiene can be applied. Defund the cops completely and see what happens. Let's follow our better's instructions.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2023 05:03 PM (OTXUv)

178 https://is.gd/KfZ6Y8
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (t0OGg)

She looks like Ashley Judd very attractive niece.

Minus the puffy face.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (L1tQx)

179 The cities divide us culturally and corrupt our politics.
They unfairly dominate and destroy.

We have to let them die if we want to save America.

There is no other Republican or republican solution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (Xt3H6)

180 "That should be like hunting over a baited field."

No thug-hunting allowed in Illinois. Quite the opposite.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (MvF+J)

181 Mrs. Jukin's little brother was married in Scat Franshitsco in 2001. We stayed downtown and it was OK but 20 years of leftist policies have achieved their true communist Utopia. 80% of people like it the way it has become.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (17s+e)

182
The problem is, they pour into places like Arizona. And they don't have an epiphany for why they had to move.

They roll in, think nothing of paying 7 figures for house (because that's an outhouse in the Bay Area), shower the local dems with campaign cash and ruin yet another red state. Locusts that go from one place to the next.

There's just so many Californians and it never seems to stop.
Posted by: Blago

How long will the infinite money flow?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (63Dwl)

183 43 Good. More Please.

It's 2023 under the reign of The Deep State and their puppet, Joe Biden.

You live, work or visit a democrat area, you get it in the keister. Stop complaining and enjoy!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2023 04:44 PM (OgB1i)

More during Pride month!

Posted by: Inogame at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (53oGX)

184 This guy has battered-wife-syndrome towards his own city.

Posted by: K at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (/EShk)

185 179 We have to let them die if we want to save America.

There is no other Republican or republican solution.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (Xt3H6)

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Accelerating their demise is a Republican solution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (LvTSG)

186 Let the cities die. Let nature run her red course.

Posted by: Ace at 04:33 PM

---------

To repeat my comment from yesterday's Buck Throckmorton thread:

"Let them stand as Cultural Chernobyls, Cautionary Tales, and Memorial Monuments to the Destructive Nihilistic Idiocy of Crony Collectivism.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (DGu1s)

187 I think the underlying mistake is assuming the SF DA office serves the citizens. The DA serves the criminals and has for some time now. I would have thought you would have noticed.

Make sure you pay your taxes!
;-)

(or else)

Posted by: Mr Hamasaki at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (fs1hN)

188 It would be a darned shame if Hamasaki were to be killed in a street mugging gone wrong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (tkR6S)

189 > Be a real shame if celebrate-crime-dude was...serially raped

No, it needs to be something that he wouldn't enjoy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:04 PM (bW8dp)

190 If that makes me a coward, so be it.
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It makes you sane.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2023 05:05 PM (OTXUv)

191
She looks like Ashley Judd very attractive niece.

Minus the puffy face.

Posted by: naturalfake

and puffy scamper.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 21, 2023 05:05 PM (17s+e)

192 There are more than one sign that the "Big One" must be on it's way to San Fran

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:05 PM (RHGPo)

193 Crime is a local issue, and the localities that love it keep voting for it. It's not a federal issue.

The only solutions are at the state level. Getting red legislatures and governors to go in and do everything possible to lessen the political power of cities.

Accurate census counts, voter rolls, and student rolls at schools would gut more than one city's power within a state, I suspect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It's also a federal issue, remember HW Bush crushing Dukakis over his stance on the death penalty and crime?

Nixon won 49 states running to be tough on crime and appointing conservative justices. Republicans with the Contract with America passed laws like "3 strikes and your out" and suddenly the nation was surprised crime was at an all time low.

It bleeds into local races as well.

We lost our way on being tough on crime in the hope it would attract minority voters.

Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 05:05 PM (cOFom)

194 Oh, this little tidbit about Hamasaki is certainly interesting...

https://twitter.com/Momberly89/status/
1637824791582261249

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 05:05 PM (mGabY)

195 179 The cities divide us culturally and corrupt our politics.
They unfairly dominate and destroy.

We have to let them die if we want to save America.

Unfortunately it is creeping out of the big cities to the burbs or small cities.. Mine is one of them 60 miles from SF.

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (bs+z0)

196 Star Wars Ewok actor is mort.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)

It's not Ace, is it?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (BdMk6)

197 > My Oakland friend started leaving her doors unlocked after some idiots smashed her window to steal laundry detergent.

I've seen videos of SF streets where car after car has their tailgate open because people are hoping not to have their windows smashed.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (V1QHJ)

198 > She looks like Ashley Judd very attractive niece.

What a shame that was. She hit the wall harder and faster than anyone I can think of (who wasn't using heroin or meth, at least).

I guess that's proof positive that leftism makes women ugly both inside and out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (bW8dp)

199 193 We lost our way on being tough on crime in the hope it would attract minority voters.
Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 05:05 PM (cOFom)

=========

The only federal issue I care about is destroying the administrative state. Increasing federal power by getting the federal government MORE involved in local issues feels just like the sort of thing that the institutional left (and right) would love to very quickly twist to their own ends.

Think Patriot Act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

200 There has to be porn stars kicking themselves London Breed was taken for a name.

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (xhxe8)

201 196 Star Wars Ewok actor is mort.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)

It's not Ace, is it?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (BdMk6

Apparently his intake of booze, coke and hookers was somewhat excessive.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2023 05:07 PM (Fwhqy)

202 Three
Same pronunciation
Only if it 'feels good'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

*******

Thanks

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2023 05:07 PM (ykeLU)

203 Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (RHGPo)

204 "Crime is a local issue,"

In the 1990s Dems and Repubs came together nationally to fight crime, and it put a good-sized dent in crime rates, while it lasted. Please God let us find that kind of consensus again.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (MvF+J)

205 https://is.gd/KfZ6Y8
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2023 05:00 PM (t0OGg)
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Lips are plausibly at the upper end of natural occurrence of puffiness, blessed genetics or kudos to the plastic surgeon.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (fs1hN)

206 We'll all be emitting bluetooth soon.

I remember attending a tech conference in D.C.'s Reagen Center, it was 1999, and the gods on stage presenting stuff wore sneakers jeans and black tee shirts.

One said, before I give you my talk, said the boy wonder strutting the stage, lemme tell you of two cool things I heard about today in the hotel at breakfast. "Google" and "bluetooth."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (KiBMU)

207 She looks like Ashley Judd very attractive niece.

What a shame that was. She hit the wall harder and faster than anyone I can think of (who wasn't using heroin or meth, at least).

I guess that's proof positive that leftism makes women ugly both inside and out.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:06 PM (bW8dp)

It's a shame when your genes conspire against you.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (L1tQx)

208 The successful new form of the conservative party will be the one that sheds the conservative instincts to preserve.

That understands America needs a significant course correction. Not run better--torn apart and rebuilt.

That all the nice, easy ways have been tried too many times: Only pain will teach the Summer Grasshoppers now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (Xt3H6)

209 They must like to live in a crime infested craphole, because they keep voting for it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (lTGtQ)

210 204 "Crime is a local issue,"

In the 1990s Dems and Repubs came together nationally to fight crime, and it put a good-sized dent in crime rates, while it lasted. Please God let us find that kind of consensus again.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:08 PM (MvF+J)

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I'm sure that the administrative state will only use newfound powers in a 4,000 page omnibus crime bill against violent criminals and not against thought criminals opposed to the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:09 PM (LvTSG)

211 The upside is that in the event of an onset of WWIII, its the Democrat cities that will take the brunt of the first waves of nukes.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:09 PM (RHGPo)

212 Set your DVRs! Tonight on BS, American Masters features Dr. Tony Fauci!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:09 PM (FVME7)

213 114 If they know exactly how the thieves are targeting their marks by scanning for Bluetooth, they could easily set up a sting and catch a bunch of these criminals and once the word got out that they were doing that, it would be a bit of a deterrent. But they won't because they are on the side of the criminals rather than civil society.
Posted by: Jon at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM

Or, a clever vigilante could plant suitcase with explosives inside, to remotely detonate once the thieves loaded into their getaway car. Would stop criminal activity faster than police stings, I bet!

Not that I would condone this course of action, mind you.

Posted by: Moron's Moron at March 21, 2023 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

214 The only federal issue I care about is destroying the administrative state. Increasing federal power by getting the federal government MORE involved in local issues feels just like the sort of thing that the institutional left (and right) would love to very quickly twist to their own ends.

Think Patriot Act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
__

Not judges?

You don't think Supreme Court judges and their decisions have a BIG effect on local crime rates?

Bruen was probably the biggest game changer on urban crime, we just have seen the full effects yet.

Part of the big crime problem was judges in the 60's and 70's handing down all sorts of decisions that protected criminals.

Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (cOFom)

215 I had an Uncle who lived there from '45 until about '95. Lived on Eddy st.
His last walk with his elderly dog he got mugged and curbstomped right in front of city hall. They kicked his dog and killed it. Hospital tried charging him $800.00 for a bandage and a wait in a room for 5 hours before he left saying fuck this. We moved him here the following week.

They callled me after he passed away wanting their money. I told them all his shit is in a corner in my garage. I'll lease you my yard for a garage sale for $1000.00 and you can sell everything.
Never heard back from them.

I loved that city in the 70's and early 80's but I wouldn't go near it now.

Posted by: Reforger at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (HUH7B)

216 "I can't believe the federal government are abusing the Patriot Act to punish 1/6 protestors! This will not stand!"

also

"We need a new federal crime law to fight crime. It definitely won't turn against us."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (LvTSG)

217 It's a good bet that a lot of the cars parked at Fisherman's Wharf are tourist rentals.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (rJ48h)

218
What a shame that was. She hit the wall harder and faster than anyone I can think of (who wasn't using heroin or meth, at least).

Whatever happened to the commentator something puffy scamper?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (eGTCV)

219 In the 1990s Dems and Repubs came together nationally to fight crime, and it put a good-sized dent in crime rates, while it lasted. Please God let us find that kind of consensus again.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss

The democrats can't fight crime any longer, as criminals make up a majority of their constituency.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2023 05:11 PM (lTGtQ)

220 I'd just as soon not arm the FBI with new crimes to investigate or AUSAs with additional or enhanced penalties to leverage.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 21, 2023 05:11 PM (ppBhU)

221 214 You don't think Supreme Court judges and their decisions have a BIG effect on local crime rates?

Bruen was probably the biggest game changer on urban crime, we just have seen the full effects yet.

Part of the big crime problem was judges in the 60's and 70's handing down all sorts of decisions that protected criminals.
Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (cOFom)

=========

Judges are a thin reed at the moment. Just wait until Thomas dies and we get DA Shitheel v. Rando Innocent guy that the new SCOTUS uses to overturn the 2nd Amendment entirely.

But even then, proper application of SCOTUS precedent is very VERY different from a new federal bill that gives the federal government more power over local policing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 21, 2023 05:11 PM (LvTSG)

222 Imagine my surprise when it was me old drugies Pete, Georgie, and Dim in police uniforms arresting me!

Posted by: Alex at March 21, 2023 05:11 PM (SYTee)

223 Sounds like Hamasaki Kawasaki has never had the shit kicked out of him. That changes people's outlook.

Many need it, most don't get it, it's a shame

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 21, 2023 05:12 PM (NtVYv)

224 > It's a shame when your genes conspire against you.

I dunno. Her sister and mother both stayed pretty hot for a good long time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:12 PM (bW8dp)

225 China’s Greatest Weapon: TikTok Pushes Suicide Videos on 13-Year-Olds

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:12 PM (RHGPo)

226
We lost our way on being tough on crime in the hope it would attract minority voters.
Posted by: Blago

Didn't Trump and some of his supporters make a big deal about releasing minorities out of prison (in an attempt to gain minority votes)?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2023 05:12 PM (63Dwl)

227 In the meantime, historic bidding war for England's Manchester United club owned the American Glazer family. They want 6 Billion pounds. Which is over $7billion US dollars.

The Glazers are slimy owners. The bidders are Qatari royal Sheikh Jassim, British Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, more American investment groups who might only contribute leaving the Glazers in power. Other bidders are still anonymous. Tomorrow night is 2nd phase of bidding war.

People with this much money completely oblivious to the troubles of the majority.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:13 PM (uQPen)

228 We lost our way on being tough on crime in the hope it would attract minority voters.

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We gave them everything they wanted while warming them the entire time that it would blow up in their faces.

But no, they were convinced that Johnny didn't get the same sentence as J'Quant-e for drug possession, so they insisted on three strikes and mandatory sentencing.

And now we're racists because there's a record number of blacks in prison because of three strikes and mandatory sentencing.

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 05:13 PM (hxPC2)

229 I had an Uncle who lived there from '45 until about '95. Lived on Eddy st.
His last walk with his elderly dog he got mugged and curbstomped right in front of city hall. They kicked his dog and killed it. Hospital tried charging him $800.00 for a bandage and a wait in a room for 5 hours before he left saying fuck this. We moved him here the following week.

Posted by: Reforger at March 21, 2023 05:10 PM (HUH7B)

How awful. Bless you for taking him in.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 21, 2023 05:13 PM (DRSnL)

230 In my neck of the woods, if/when you call 911 and request LE, we always end the call with " and send an ambulance and EMS ". " Is anyone injured "? " Not yet."

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 21, 2023 05:13 PM (qj8+t)

231 Nobody supports Trump anymore. He's old news.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (iayUP)

232 English actor and stuntman Paul Grant, who appeared in the Star Wars and Harry Potter films, has died. He was 56.

Grant, who played an Ewok in Return of the Jedi and a goblin in Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, was found collapsed and alone outside King’s Cross station in London last Thursday afternoon and could not be revived.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (RHGPo)

233 Anyone smell that ? It's troll stink

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bs+z0)

234 But they won't because they are on the side of the criminals rather than civil society.

It works like this. You start with a mindset that says anything bad you learn about non whites is due to racism. Then you look at prison stats and see that more blacks are in prison by a percentage of the population (and often overall) than whites. Why must this be? RACISM, obviously, because that's your only answer to everything.

So how do you combat this evil racism? You stop arresting people for crimes typically committed by black people. This brings down the arrest and conviction numbers of blacks in prison.

For bonus points, you let a ton of them free during a viral panic, on the excuse of crowding and dangers of transmission of the disease.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

235 there was a pro-Trump rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and five people showed up.

and they are already "in the system" as terr or ists

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (uQPen)

236 Never been to SF, was in LA during OJ trial, the maid was the star that week

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (xhxe8)

237 Especially now that remote work is a thing, I'd reckon that San Francisco is less than 10 years from becoming Detroit West, with the other major cities not far behind.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bW8dp)

238 Tonight on BS

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Typo. I meant to type PBS but I guess this works too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (FVME7)

239 Nobody supports Trump anymore. He's old news.
Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (iayUP)

hehe, everyone I know IS

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (uQPen)

240 234 Anyone smell that ? It's troll stink
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bs+z0

Smells like cabbage and sadness.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (Fwhqy)

241 236 there was a pro-Trump rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and five people showed up.

and they are already "in the system" as terr or ists
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (uQPen)

And they were all FBI

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bs+z0)

242 Wow. This Hamasaki guy is an unbelievable asshole. But of the same ilk as those bemoaning Giuliani cleaning up Times Square.

Posted by: Getting knifed is part of the authentic NYC experience! at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (La8Fd)

243 "Didn't Trump and some of his supporters make a big deal about releasing minorities out of prison (in an attempt to gain minority votes)?"

Oh yes. RNC was a big slobber kiss to criminals: At least two prayers for Jacob Swisscheese Blake. Featured speaker: paroled cocaine kingpin. I watched it here in the thread with the Horde, and most of the Horde swooned for all of it. It was disgusting.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (MvF+J)

244 234 Anyone smell that ? It's troll stink
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bs+z0)

How would you describe troll stink?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (eGTCV)

245 "there was a pro-Trump rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and five people showed up."

Any cute per-pubescent little girls with pretty hair?

Posted by: Uncle Joe Biden at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (SYTee)

246 >>148 This busty blonde is glad she doesn't live in San Francisco.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Someone removed her elbows.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (DMyTF)

247 there was a pro-Trump rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and five people showed up.
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Many supporters got wise to the whole 5 yrs for "parading" with 2 years in solitary and no bail while waiting for court date ploy. The five were probably undercover feds anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (fs1hN)

248 there was a pro-Trump rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and five people showed up.

And all of them were FBI agents

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (0hOvj)

249 Meh. Frisco. Who cares?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (pohLc)

250 Is LA as bad as SF re: crime? I have to go there in May. It's been at least 7 years since my last trip anywhere in CA.

I used to enjoy visiting cities now and then. Just walking around and exploring. Usually by myself. Not anymore.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (aBJcM)

251 Pop singer Jewel Kilcher is telling fans that her own mother embezzled more than a million dollars from the singer’s accounts.

The singer, song writer, and actress spoke of her family troubles and how it affected her mental health during an appearance on the “Very Mind Project: with Amy Morin during which she reported that her mother, Lenedra J. Carroll, stole all her money, according to Fox News.

“I didn’t really realize what my mom was until I was 30-something. I woke up and realized she embezzled all of my money, over $100 million,” Jewel said.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (RHGPo)

252 The democrats can't fight crime any longer, as criminals make up a majority of their constituency.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2023 05:11 PM

This, more than you know. Look at the push for reducing sentencing for POC? too many black people locked up can only mean it's cuz raycissm. Can't be anything culturally. Nope, so the solution is to be less rayciss by reducing sentencing and release with no bail etc. Half the laws aren't even enforced. Because raycist.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (GDJBM)

253 201 Apparently his intake of booze, coke and hookers was somewhat excessive.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2023 05:07 PM

It couldn't be that bad....Rick James is still alive, right?

Checks Google.

Oh....nevermind.

Posted by: Musical Moron at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (JCZqz)

254 there was a pro-Trump rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and five people showed up

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I saw that. They were wearing masks.

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (hxPC2)

255 *high five Donna*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (0hOvj)

256 I always though SF was a beautiful city but could never think of moving there because of the politics and cost of living. What if the current crisis cause the libs to all flee and housing prices to cras? Maybe norms could move there in en mass and restore order.

But still in California and that is probably beyond repair.

Posted by: Ripley at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (cUYo/)

257 Gumby no likey!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (QjGT0)

258 "How would you describe troll stink?
Posted by: N. Lurker"

Smells like Dorcus Blimline's breath.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (iayUP)

259 "Then you look at prison stats and see that more blacks are in prison by a percentage of the population (and often overall) than whites."

One third of American black males are convicted felons. Let that sink in. And don't tell me 'LBJ made them do it.'

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (MvF+J)

260 232 Nobody supports Trump anymore. He's old news.
Posted by: fd at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (iayUP)

Jebus! Must be tough to get around when you are that full of shit.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (pohLc)

261 Pop singer Jewel Kilcher is telling fans that her own mother embezzled more than a million dollars from the singer’s accounts.

She has had a pretty rough life for a pop star.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (0hOvj)

262 The Ohio State University (OSU) requires diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements from those applying for jobs at the College of Engineering.

OSU requires applicants to the College of Engineering to provide a diversity statement, with an application portal for a faculty position in nuclear engineering explaining “The search committee will ask all applicants to provide a written statement that describes your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

.. these folks have more options than most folks, so I expect they don't get anybody with any real experience

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (RHGPo)

263 Idaho Aims To Reinstate The Firing Squad

OAN Roy Francis
UPDATED 1:30 PM - Tuesday, March 21, 2023

The Idaho State Senate passed a bill on Monday aimed at reviving the firing squad as a death penalty option.

JUST IN: Idaho lawmakers pass bill with veto-proof majority that would allow execution by firing squad. - AP

- Upward News (@UpwardNewsHQ) March 20, 2023
House Bill 186, which passed the State Senate by a vote of 24-11, gives authorities the option to order execution by firing squad, if lethal injection drugs are not available within five days of when the death warrant was issued.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (uQPen)

264 > and send an ambulance and EMS

Better send an amba-lance or a hearst. Mmm-hmm.

Posted by: Karl "Slingblade" Childers at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (bW8dp)

265 unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
1h
BREAKING: Loans to Silicon Valley Banks' officers, directors and principal shareholders, as well as other insiders, more than tripled to $219 million in the final months of SVB.

That’s a record amount of loans issued to insiders, going back at least two decades.

Unusual.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (NpAcC)

266 One third of American black males are convicted felons. Let that sink in.

Thug culture, no dads, and a lack of Jesus will ruin you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (0hOvj)

267 American Breed is better than London Breed.

https://youtu.be/gO35iRn67i4

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (63Dwl)

268 Saddle up Pokey!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (QjGT0)

269 245 234 Anyone smell that ? It's troll stink
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bs+z0)

How would you describe troll stink?
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (eGTCV)

Stick four sardines in your wool underwear and go run five miles in the Alabama humidity.

Go home and take a whiff of your nether regions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (Fwhqy)

270 Pop singer Jewel Kilcher is telling fans that her own mother embezzled more than a million dollars from the singer’s accounts.

She has had a pretty rough life for a pop star.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (0hOvj)

I love her music.
Yeah, I think she made music with her dad, a preacher or something, that is why much is Christian based.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:18 PM (uQPen)

271 > It couldn't be that bad....Rick James is still alive, right?

(Laughs in Keith Richards)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:18 PM (bW8dp)

272 No one supports Trump any more and he'd immediately win in another landslide.

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 05:18 PM (hxPC2)

273 *wanders in*

Wow John, there simply no words in the English language to adequately sum up my feelings to you.

So lets try some German, I hope you get Schadenfreud right up the keister.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2023 05:18 PM (5+0fa)

274 Imagine if folks DID support him?

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM (hxPC2)

275 And they were all FBI
Posted by: It's me donna

Tonight on CBS, there are THREE FBI shows: FBI, FBI International, and FBI: Most Wanted.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM (FVME7)

276 Didn't Trump and some of his supporters make a big deal about releasing minorities out of prison (in an attempt to gain minority votes)?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
___

Yes, we basically turned a blind eye to everything we claimed was really important to us in an effort to get Trump to win reelection.

Corporate Bailouts, subsidies, stimmie checks in the mail, student loan deferment, and letting criminals go free under the auspices of them being in there because of our racist justice system.

Posted by: Blago at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM (cOFom)

277 Or, a clever vigilante could plant suitcase with explosives inside, to remotely detonate once the thieves loaded into their getaway car. Would stop criminal activity faster than police stings, I bet!

Not that I would condone this course of action, mind you.

Posted by: Moron's Moron at March 21, 2023 05:09 PM (JCZqz)
===

When I was 17 I had just bought a fairly nice and expensive stereo-tape deck for my car. About 4 moths latera gang came by and broke into a bunch of cars on or street and just took the stereos. When the cops came to do nothing of value, I said you know if I put razor blades up in the stereo area that would be the end of this. Cops reads me the riot act about how that is so totes illegal and I'm lucky I didn't.

I think about that and know that was a good solution. Cheap, effective, and lasting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM (17s+e)

278 And they were all FBI
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (bs+z0)

LOL, perfect

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM (uQPen)

279 I saw Cabbage and Sadness open for Mazzy Star at the Victorian in '96.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (44ww/)

280 Who did Mr Antani vote for, I wonder?

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (C6qkE)

281 And they want to take away your cars so you'll be forced to live in these shitholes. It's like a virtual Berlin Wall.

Posted by: Toad-O at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (cct0t)

282 > How would you describe troll stink?

Like a used pair of Maxine Waters panties.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (bW8dp)

283 264 Oklahoma has firing squad as an option for the condemned to choose. If I was in that predicament, I would take the firing squad, just to yell the last line from Breaker Morant "for once in your lives shoot straight!".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (lz5hY)

284 “I didn’t really realize what my mom was until I was 30-something. I woke up and realized she embezzled all of my money, over $100 million,” Jewel said.
Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (RHGPo)

This is disgustingly common with young music or movie stars. Their parents bleed them dry. I think Macaulay Culkin had the same experience as well.

Posted by: Some parents are shit people at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (La8Fd)

285 BREAKING: Loans to Silicon Valley Banks' officers, directors and principal shareholders, as well as other insiders, more than tripled to $219 million in the final months of SVB.

That’s a record amount of loans issued to insiders, going back at least two decades.

Unusual.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (NpAcC)
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I'm trying to figure out the scam but I'm not a banker.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (G0vdT)

286 254 201 Apparently his intake of booze, coke and hookers was somewhat excessive.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2023 05:07 PM

It couldn't be that bad....Rick James is still alive, right?

Checks Google.

Oh....nevermind.

Posted by: Musical Moron at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (JCZqz)

Rick James was dating Linda Blair and knocked her up. Linda decided to get an abortion. After that, Rick wrote a song about her titles, "Cold Blooded"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (ynpvh)

287 Hamasaki is apparently now defending Antifa members and getting Andy Ngo's colleagues banned from covering the trials. He's a real piece of work.

Posted by: Liberty at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (ihNwd)

288 Hamasaki probably has whined about Texas and its open carry /constitutional carry laws. Little fucking pussy,

Posted by: polynikes at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (+ekwe)

289 Cops reads me the riot act about how that is so totes illegal and I'm lucky I didn't.

I think about that and know that was a good solution. Cheap, effective, and lasting.

Why, it's almost like their purpose is not to protect law honest citizens from criminals.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (ppBhU)

290 >She has had a pretty rough life for a pop star.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:16 PM (0hOvj)

I was a bit surprised when I saw that she's from the same family that is on that show Alaska: The Last Frontier. She actually ended up on a few of the later episodes.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (mGabY)

291 Like a used pair of Maxine Waters panties.

Well there goes dinner...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (5+0fa)

292 How would you describe troll stink?

Like a used pair of Maxine Waters panties.

-

Oh jeez.

Ammonia and Jeri curl

Posted by: They intend to crash the banks with Trump's arrest at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (hxPC2)

293 If they know exactly how the thieves are targeting their marks by scanning for Bluetooth, they could easily set up a sting and catch a bunch of these criminals and once the word got out that they were doing that, it would be a bit of a deterrent. But they won't because they are on the side of the criminals rather than civil society.
Posted by: Jon at March 21, 2023 04:55 PM (Jt9RE)

Some vigilantes could set up bait cars with "loaded" laptops that would explode about 5 minutes after being handled by the thieves.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (tkR6S)

294 Late to the thread, as usual...

Apparently this idiot gushing about the "city experience" has no concept that you can live in a small town where people don't feel the need to lock the doors of their cars or even their homes because there is very little crime.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (YIVH2)

295 286 BREAKING: Loans to Silicon Valley Banks' officers, directors and principal shareholders, as well as other insiders, more than tripled to $219 million in the final months of SVB.

That’s a record amount of loans issued to insiders, going back at least two decades.

Unusual.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (NpAcC)
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I'm trying to figure out the scam but I'm not a banker.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (G0vdT)

low interest to them. Can then leverage. My guess

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (ynpvh)

296 When the cops came to do nothing of value, I said you know if I put razor blades up in the stereo area that would be the end of this. Cops reads me the riot act about how that is so totes illegal and I'm lucky I didn't.

Shows you what side the pigs are on, and it ain't ours.

Posted by: Oink snort grunt at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (La8Fd)

297 This is disgustingly common with young music or movie stars. Their parents bleed them dry. I think Macaulay Culkin had the same experience as well.
Posted by: Some parents are shit people at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (La8Fd)
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Weren't laws changed because of how much Culkin's parents stole from him?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (2YtOq)

298 "Nobody supports Trump anymore. He's old news."

It's just that many DJT supporters are on OPSEC now, same as many were in 2016. The preference cascade WAS rapid, I'll grant you that.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (MvF+J)

299 Some vigilantes could set up bait cars with "loaded" laptops that would explode about 5 minutes after being handled by the thieves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (tkR6S)
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Didn't Mark Rober set up some glitter bombs like that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

300 288 Hamasaki is apparently now defending Antifa members and getting Andy Ngo's colleagues banned from covering the trials. He's a real piece of work.

Posted by: Liberty at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (ihNwd)

sounds like he needs to experience San Fransisco the way that Kate Steinle did.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (ynpvh)

301 >Tonight on CBS, there are THREE FBI shows: FBI, FBI International, and FBI: Most Wanted.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM (FVME7)

American mass media is one giant psy op. Back The Blue.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (mGabY)

302 More Hamasaki:

DA Jenkins, on the other hand, is actively working with criminals, even murders, to undermine our justice system.

He means the cops.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 21, 2023 05:23 PM (2tUFv)

303 I have a relative in SF. Lives in a gated condo with 24 hour security. Drives to work into a gated, guarded parking garage and escorted into the building. Drives home to the gated, guarded parking lot at home. Walks the dog in an interior courtyard to be safe. Some life.

SF is the opposite of a prison. The inmates are on the outside.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2023 05:23 PM (lTGtQ)

304 There weren't thieves and homeless druggies covering all of the sidewalks back in the day when SFPD detectives Karl Malden and Michael Douglas were kicking ass on The Streets of San Francisco!

https://tinyurl.com/yw9z43nd

Unfortunately, that was 50 years ago. The good old days were better.

Posted by: Gref at March 21, 2023 05:23 PM (AMIL/)

305 I'm astounded that anyone thinks it's just fine Togo on living in a scenario right out of Grand Theft Auto.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (Eeybl)

306 sounds like he needs to experience San Fransisco the way that Kate Steinle did.

You mean by one of Nancy Pelosi's little 'sparks of divinity' perchance?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (5+0fa)

307 300 Some vigilantes could set up bait cars with "loaded" laptops that would explode about 5 minutes after being handled by the thieves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (tkR6S)
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Didn't Mark Rober set up some glitter bombs like that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

had a colleague from South Africa that said he believed the Gov't would similarly sabotage weapons caches so that when the weapons or munitions were used, they would maim/kill the users...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

308 https://www.frontpagemag.com/1% of democrat counties make up 42 of americas murders
https://tinyurl.com/yc8f6z3z

It's not just SF

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (xhxe8)

309 For bonus points, you let a ton of them free during a viral panic, on the excuse of crowding and dangers of transmission of the disease.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

Kate? Kate Brown? Is that you?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (xhaym)

310 I used to love super hot Jewell regard to her attitude and she was a good wife for a while to the bull rider guy until they divorced. Then she dated Sean Penn for a minute and now she's dead to me. 😀

Posted by: polynikes at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (+ekwe)

311 I accidentally left the car keys sticking out of my trunk lock in a public garage in San Francisco. Nobody had touched the car. It was on the ground floor of the garage. Many people had to see it.

But this was the year 2000

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (EF2e/)

312 "Thug culture, no dads, and a lack of Jesus will ruin you."

Yes, black felons can never be responsible for their own behavior, because of 'reasons.' That's Wokeness-Lite.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (MvF+J)

313 Tonight on CBS, there are THREE FBI shows: FBI, FBI International, and FBI: Most Wanted.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM

Well they have time at night. Can't catch night time thieves so..

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (GDJBM)

314 307 sounds like he needs to experience San Fransisco the way that Kate Steinle did.

You mean by one of Nancy Pelosi's little 'sparks of divinity' perchance?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2023 05:24 PM (5+0fa)

maybe put a pro-Trump sticker on his car?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (ynpvh)

315 Some vigilantes could set up bait cars with "loaded" laptops that would explode about 5 minutes after being handled by the thieves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:21 PM (tkR6S)
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Didn't Mark Rober set up some glitter bombs like that?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

Yep. He stopped doing them in SF when someone pulled a gun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (lEVn+)

316 Many supporters got wise to the whole 5 yrs for "parading" with 2 years in solitary and no bail while waiting for court date ploy. The five were probably undercover feds anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2023 05:15 PM (fs1hN)

Very true statement.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (exHjb)

317 John H. Is exactly the kind of man who would tell a rape victim just to lay back and enjoy it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (Eeybl)

318 "Some vigilantes could set up bait cars ..."

Yes there are thousands of effective things that could be done, all illegal.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (MvF+J)

319 Defense Department spokesman John Kirby says LGBTQ rights are a core part of our foreign policy

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And yet we bow down to Iran.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (FVME7)

320 John Hamaski is a douchebag's douchenozzle.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (Xrfse)

321 The US government during Prohibition deliberately spiked material used to produce booze.

Who knows how many Americans were maimed or killed?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (5+0fa)

322 308 Rumor had it that long range patrols in Vietnam would leave stripper clips of AK/SKS ammo on hot trails. End rounds on the stripper clips had the powder removed and replaced with C4.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (lz5hY)

323 322 The US government during Prohibition deliberately spiked material used to produce booze.

Who knows how many Americans were maimed or killed?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (5+0fa)

Number I heard was at least 11,000.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:27 PM (ynpvh)

324 323 308 Rumor had it that long range patrols in Vietnam would leave stripper clips of AK/SKS ammo on hot trails. End rounds on the stripper clips had the powder removed and replaced with C4.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (lz5hY)

Heh.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:27 PM (ynpvh)

325 inner citiy crime stats are the bare minimum of the crimes committed

probably at least 1/3 of crimes are never reported

many crimes go unreported, esp in black areas

the residents are pressured not to report (snitches get stitches)
and often think it is useless to do so

wasn't oprah raped and not reported ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (us2H3)

326 nood, round-eyes!

Posted by: chairman xi at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (Vwz3I)

327 American mass media is one giant psy op. Back The Blue.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM

I do back the blue, the good cops. Orgs like the FIB and DOJunta. Not so much. The defunding and nuetering of law enforcement gets you San Fran etc. So while it might be hip and cool to be anti LEO, be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (GDJBM)

328 Tonight on CBS, there are THREE FBI shows: FBI, FBI International, and FBI: Most Wanted.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:19 PM

No, there are four....

Posted by: Gul Madred: FBI Cardasia at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (3H6Q4)

329 320 Defense Department spokesman John Kirby says LGBTQ rights are a core part of our foreign policy

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And yet we bow down to Iran.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2023 05:26 PM (FVME7)

I bet Mr. Kirby will put his ass on the line for LGBTQ.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

330 John H. Is exactly the kind of man who would tell a rape victim just to lay back and enjoy it.

Hamasaki deleted a tweet where a coworker had her car broken into, but acknowledged that it was her fault, because there was a visible package in the car.

Criminals don't have any agency, you see.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (2tUFv)

331 Weren't laws changed because of how much Culkin's parents stole from him?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (2YtOq)

I'm not sure though I seem to recall SAG or one of the other performers unions changing their rules because of it.

Posted by: Parent stealing from their kids is reprehensible at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (La8Fd)

332 SF is the opposite of a prison. The inmates are on the outside.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2023 05:23 PM (lTGtQ)

That's life in the big city. Quote from Robocop.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (pohLc)

333 Yes, black felons can never be responsible for their own behavior, because of 'reasons.'

Clearly, people never do anything for any reason other than innate evil they are born with and genetically encoded with. Black people are by nature criminal, violent, and wicked, right? That's what you want me to say?

Because that's idiotic and wrong. And ignorant. And you know what else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2023 05:28 PM (0hOvj)

334 "Tonight on CBS, there are THREE FBI shows: FBI, FBI International, and FBI: Most Wanted.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

At least two will focus be about racist white nationalist terrorists.

Posted by: Ripley at March 21, 2023 05:29 PM (cUYo/)

335 170 If you had both hands on the keyboard, this wouldn't happen.
___

Jeffrey Toobin, is that you?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2023 05:29 PM (fs1hN)

336 320 Defense Department spokesman John Kirby says LGBTQ rights are a core part of our foreign policy

put me in coach, I'm ready to play

Posted by: Abby Normal at March 21, 2023 05:30 PM (us2H3)

337 And they want to take away your cars so you'll be forced to live in these shitholes. It's like a virtual Berlin Wall.
Posted by: Toad-O at March 21, 2023 05:20 PM (cct0t)

Agenda 21/15-minute cities. It's slowly being manifested even in red states. Beware the large apartment buildings being built in downtown areas.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 21, 2023 05:31 PM (BdMk6)

338 Yeahhhh fuck this guy, there is no requirement that being in a city equates to crime. There is crime at this level because they choose to allow it, for a multitude of reasons.

Our cities are a disgrace and tolerance for these dipshits releasing criminals to outlying areas is finite.

Posted by: somedood at March 21, 2023 05:31 PM (M4gnG)

339 New thread up. didn't want to stomp on it

"what if all the US Presidents were comic book villains?"
cool art twatter thread
https://tinyurl.com/5x8rnefh

Posted by: Fool Otto at March 21, 2023 05:32 PM (DB16e)

340 Tonight on CBS, there are THREE FBI shows: FBI, FBI International, and FBI: Most Wanted.
____

Taxpayer funded* propaganda.

*I wouldn't be surprised

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2023 05:32 PM (fs1hN)

341 My Oakland friend started leaving her doors unlocked after some idiots smashed her window to steal laundry detergent.

I've seen videos of SF streets where car after car has their tailgate open because people are hoping not to have their windows smashed.
------------------

Can't believe people can live this way.
Complete societal surrender.

Posted by: DaisyB at March 21, 2023 05:35 PM (AbL8c)

342 Didn't Mark Rober set up some glitter bombs like that?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

Well, there was some guy on Ewetoob making glitter bombs for porch pirates. Maybe that was him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:41 PM (tkR6S)

343 So, Paul Grant and Willis Reed expire on the same day. That's the long and the short of it.

Posted by: Walter Krankheit at March 21, 2023 05:43 PM (wrJpE)

344 Yes there are thousands of effective things that could be done, all illegal.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 21, 2023 05:25 PM (MvF+J)

That's where Opsec comes in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2023 05:44 PM (tkR6S)

345 Sounds like he could be an Ambassador for the Biden Administration

Posted by: Regular joe at March 21, 2023 05:57 PM (nnp+f)

346 > everything should be in a faraday bag or case at this point

It's not just the Bluetooth scanners. The thieves know what rental cars look like and they know where tourists park. They break windows and pop the trunk because they're looking for luggage bags. Luggage bags have laptops, passports, tablets, phones, prescription drugs, etc.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 21, 2023 04:57 PM (V1QHJ)

When Florida went to allowing carrying, there was a huge spike in robbery/murders of people coming in from out of the country out of the airport since they would be carrying stuff, and unarmed.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2023 06:04 PM (eoQWY)

347 That police comish must be getting a cut.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 21, 2023 06:08 PM (0Qrr3)

348 BREAKING: Loans to Silicon Valley Banks' officers, directors and principal shareholders, as well as other insiders, more than tripled to $219 million in the final months of SVB.

That’s a record amount of loans issued to insiders, going back at least two decades.

Unusual.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2023 05:17 PM (NpAcC)

Guess they got the good news about the bailout somewhat early.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2023 06:10 PM (eoQWY)

349 "Responding to this was John Hamasaki, a former police commissioner. He quit that post to run for DA against Chesa Boudin."

Obviously Mr. Hamasaki doesn't need a pension from the City of San Francisco or the State of California so why don't we take it from him and redistribute it as reparations? I mean he's not doing his job and doesn't care about crime so he doesn't deserve a pension.

Posted by: mmack at March 21, 2023 06:21 PM (Kv2A/)

350 Bloodtide is on Tubi if you want to watch it...looks interesting:

https://tinyurl.com/rmfkbks3

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at March 21, 2023 06:24 PM (XkBm+)

351 My brother lost his wallet TWICE in the Bay Area about 20 years ago now. He actually got it back both times with everything in it, including cash. Someone brought it to the police and he got it back. That was unreal then, of course.

And having something stolen does shake you. House burglaries are the worst. Someone was IN YOUR HOUSE. It's upsetting. We had our car stolen and that was even that way. I kept going back outside to see if I'd just missed seeing it parked in the driveway.

What isn't upsetting is vandalism. Someone broke a window and grabbed my daughter's purse which was left in view. It was a PAIN in the butt, but not particularly upsetting. It's upsetting if someone trashes your lawn or spray paints something OR breaks your car window. But not in the same way.

I the case described it wasn't smashing a window and grabbing a purse as some sort of opportunity crime. It was clearly well planned and involved technology which is a whole different level of feeling insecure. Instead of broken window "oh shit". And call the cops. It's organized. And organized always is more threatening.

Posted by: Synova at March 21, 2023 06:32 PM (BD/yx)

352 Oops. I missed that this tread was dead.

Posted by: Synova at March 21, 2023 06:35 PM (BD/yx)

353 Wall off the cities. THEN let them die

Posted by: SamIam at March 21, 2023 06:46 PM (oasF3)

354 Leaving your passports in a car in any city in any country is a pretty stupid thing to do

Posted by: Paul at March 21, 2023 06:50 PM (1Uiaz)

355 Let the cities die?? That's not very nice to the majority of your readers and probably you are city suckers. MOVE. Put your money where your mouth is for once.

Posted by: MikeN at March 21, 2023 07:31 PM (+548g)

356 but it had zero impact on my sense of public safety
Well, that explains your shitty job as commissioner, then, doesn't it?

Does this mean, in a world of Rule By Man, that we can now go break into his house and ransack it? Maybe even beat his family and servants a little? Nothing too violent, of course. He's alright with that, right?

Posted by: GWB at March 21, 2023 08:16 PM (NJ9MR)

357 "Let the cities die. Let nature run her red course."

Perhaps

Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at March 21, 2023 08:20 PM (Z4oqp)

358 Where the hell did I park my flamethrowing tank?

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at March 21, 2023 08:30 PM (aTtlU)

359 Where I live those criminals would be shot on sight and buried in someone's back 40. No doubt city living has softened Hamaski to the ways of country living. But I bet he'd complain mightily if those methods were brought to his pussified city.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at March 21, 2023 09:24 PM (96wFa)

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