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When Munis Attack!
San Francisco’s local bus company, the “Muni”, often features notoriously suicidal and reckless drivers…
Seventeen people were injured Monday night when a Municipal Railway bus swerved off Mission Street and crashed into an adult video store … One of the injured, a 60-year-old man, was in critical condition with head injuries. The accident occurred at about 10:15 p.m. at Mission and Sixth streets when a 14-Mission double electric bus slammed into the Golden Gate Adult Superstore … Witnesses said the bus was eastbound on Mission Street when it veered off the road and onto the sidewalk at full speed. The front of the bus crashed through the wall and into the store, thrusting a streetlight into the second floor of the building, which houses several apartments.
Commemorating WMDs
Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first atomic bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Anyway, his point is that for USians to understand how this strikes many people, imagine if sometime around 2050 Al Qaida was to pay for a monument to be erected in Saudia Arabia to commemorate the airplanes that struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.
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