Welcome to San Francisco...

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 06:17:14 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 9:21:36?PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzc15BeAaE

We walk that bit of Sanchez Street and those stairs fairly often. My
favorite street, Cumberland, is just above the drop-off.

There were a bunch of people on those stairs seconds before the car
arrived.

As to be expected, the joke SFDA recently announced charges against the miscreants have been dropped.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/update-charges-against-2-suspects-arrested-san-francisco-carjacking-sanchez-stairs-crash-discharged/

This could have as much to do with the kind of people on SF juries as with anything else. The DA office spends a lot of money on prosecutions, and if a case looks like the outcome will not be good, they drop it.

Let\'s hope it\'s not over.

We often park on Noe Street and walk down those stairs to our favorite
French bistro or the oyster joint on Castro. We were not tourist
rubbernecking, honest.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ic7fjgsyqhf2j18c74ca4/h?rlkey=umt4le446z6i2omdob4f57osn&dl=0

The hillside is remarkably undamaged, but there is debris everywhere.

You can see those white concrete posts at the dead-end of Sanchez.
Very stiff, certainly steel inside. The car sneaked through the only
narrow place where it could have avoided a post.

With all that steel and concrete and trees everywhere, it\'s a miracle
that they had a soft landing and limped away.