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Showing posts with label parking meters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parking meters. Show all posts

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Respect Boundaries and Meeting Circle Space on Our SF Sidewalks: Rude Bike Messengers, et al. - Pay Attention To Your Bad Selves.

Attention:  For Profit Bike Food Messengers in the Mission District:

Who Do You Think You Are, Trying To Push Your Bike Into Our Group Meeting Spaces & Parking Meters on Our Streets, huh ?    

 Do You Think You Are Privileged When You Ride A Bike For A Corporation in Our City on Our Sidewalks and push your way into the middle of groups relaxing on our streets, so you can Lock Up, Illegally, At Parking Meters ? 



   Think Again!     Our City of San Francisco is a PEOPLE FIRST city.

    This means when Our People are on the street, occupying a space, such as around a parking meter at the curb, so we can speak and smoke away from the doors of local cafes --  we do not want YOU to try to cut into our meeting circles (already pushed to the curb, thanks to unjust Sit and Lie Law that violates International Human Rights) --  to lock your bike up illegally on our parking meters.

    We do ask you nicely, at first, and most of you 'get it' and go park elsewhere.  A word to the wise is sufficient, but the fools persist.   

  We appreciate people who respect us the first time we ask them to not bother us, park their bike near us, et cetera.  

   That is Our Right to Demand that from any person, to not have their bikes or property stuck into the middle of our assembled groups on the sidewalks --  but especially the tools and pawns transported here to displace us all.

   Their Radios are loud and give us a headache and remind us of police action and violence. 

   Their Presence is disturbing when we see them, let alone when they jump up fast onto our sidewalks or run up into the middle of our groups to park, as if we were not there and did not exist, before they arrived on the scene.

     This is called respect for your Host City where you are a Guest, Visitor or Newcomer to.

 If we go to New York, for example, and see a circle of locals congregating, we DO NOT ride up on our bikes or walk up with our bikes INTO their circle to park it at the meter or pole in the middle of that group…

    because they may stab or shoot you for VIOLATING their personal group space on their streets and sidewalks.   Because of aggressive lack of basic respect.


Memorial BBQ, Support Meetups
   We are Guests in their hood and act appropriately as we expect others who visit or are new to our neighborhoods, to do the same.

     Especially, if we're making profits by biking and try to force our will over the locals… not too bright !

   No one standing in a group should ever have to ask a person twice, to go away and not invade their space and peace of mind.

   Anyone who pushes that (insisting on being in or putting their bikes, bags or backpacks into the middle of our groups)  is asking for Anti-Harassment Orders, because we take our peace of mind, security and personal spaces seriously. 


Baby Weber BBQ
  We'll file against their own person and others at their company, who repeat this bad, intrusive behavior.  

  Because pushing in too close, after being told no - violates our right to be left alone and not bothered by what they want or need in the spaces that we already occupy for good purpose.

    Only a fool or a Rude Control Freak Egotist keeps trying to force their will against locals -- who were doing fine --  until you came up into their scene.

     So, we are perplexed why SOME OF YOU BIKERS FOR PROFITS keep trying to PUSH YOUR WAY into the middle of our groups on the streets.

    Last night, in front of Taqueria La Cumbre, 500 Block of Valencia Street - we were having a BBQ Meeting and memorial for a fallen friend and discussing legal cases, with Members of Occupy SF, SF Awareness Group and San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union and their Attorney.

    We're working on several major federal and state cases involving Prohibition, Damages to Victims and setting up teams to do research on pending state laws (i.g. CA State AB26) which we do every night at the same spot.

     Story:  Volunteers Needed To Perfect Suit for Damages to Cannabis Prisoner Victims and Taxpayers from 1934 to 2015 here:

http://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2015/01/volunteers-needed-to-research-damages.html

    Here's some YouTube Links to the Videos of our BBQ Meetings: 
  

     We were actually discussing getting Anti-Harassment Orders and Restraining Orders against various 'corporate' agents who keep bothering and annoying us, or stealing local space and resources.   We've been meeting in groups like this every night or so, for the past 5 years, working on issues like this, for the community.

  Everyone else around, knows us, respects us and leaves us alone in our space and we in turn, help them find housing, do legal work and feed them.

   Left alone, we are all at peace and working hard for our community, every day.

515 Valencia St, Nr 16th St
  Taqueria La Cumbre is our favorite local Mom and Pop, and we promote and send people there as often as possible.

   We've known folks like those old SFPD Homicide Detectives (dressed in slick suits from the 1940's), who've been going there since they were rookies, or before, when they attended Mission High School.  

    Like most of our local Mom and Pop shops, our most favorite and once economical eateries are being pushed out by bad acting, anti-competitive mega corporations that  are not from here.

  They steal our space, resources and local cash flows, which harms us all and causes impoverishment and suffering.

  WE SUPPORT LOCAL MOM AND POPS.

Taqueria La Cumbre Menu
  The owner and staff there enjoy us being outside, where we keep an eye on their cars, the trash out front and we feed all the hungry people.

  Which makes for a very peaceful time for us all, on these street corners with our peers and street musicians and outreach people.



   Check out Taqueria La Cumbre's Menu Here:



   
   So, while we're doing our usual Meeting and BBQ, along comes this Food Messenger guy who just 'pushes' his way into the middle of our group to the commercial parking meter where we already have our service bike resting and our food is all around.

   He kept trying to convince us why we should let him lock up his bike in the middle of our set up, next to our hot BBQ Grill and food all around...
Portable Bike BBQ
  He said charming, seemingly persuasive things like, 'but, I promise if I lock it here, my bike won't touch your stuff… I'll only be a minute.. '  'Hey, it's important for me to park here because I deliver food..'

   We pointed out he could lock up 10 feet away at two or three different spots, and in any event, we have this space occupied for our group meeting and do not want anyone else's bike or other stuff to be near or get mixed up into ours. 

   We have lots of thieves and we must keep watch on our own stuff.. when other people's stuff or bikes are in the middle of our group, it's too busy to keep track of our own stuff or prevent harm or damage to anyone's stuff... too crowded.
   We told him several times before he kind of 'got it' but he left mad because he was INCONVENIENCED.

   Well, his presence here and the  hassle he gave us and time he wasted and interruption to our group meeting were VERY INCONVENIENT TO OUR ENTIRE GROUP.

  His lack of respect for locals, elders and an assembled 'family' that was already occupying that space OFFENDED US and made us angry because when we are in Roman, we act like Romans and 'go with the flows' when in other people's neighborhoods and communities.

   Many newcomers that 'ran from' the people of the East, South and Texas areas usually do well here, because most of them 'live and let live' and 'go with the flow' and respect our elders and locals and poor and homeless and veterans.    

   The here-for-the-money newcomers are rude, paying four times market rate for everything (thanks to Chase Bank, et al) and do not care about our locals or the people who already exist in any place or spot on our street.  To THE MONEY GRUBBERS, we are all 'objects' in the way of their profiteering.  
    They'll steal space, invade cafes to do for profit training, steal outlets and wifi bandwidth, office space, sidewalks and DO WHAT THEY WANT no matter how offensive, illegal or rude it is.... it's all about them, in their own minds.

   Those kinds of newcomers can leave town at any time or if they keep on harming us, we shall take steps to insure their compliance with our local laws, traditions and customs, for better or worse.

  As they sow, so shall they reap.   San Francisco is the fastest boomerang karma affect spot in the world.

    What happens next is based upon their own conduct and behavior.

  WE CARE MORE ABOUT OUR PEACE OF MIND WITHOUT YOUR FOR PROFIT ACTIVITIES NEAR US BECAUSE YOU REPRESENT THE GENTRIFICATION THAT IS HARMING AND KILLING OUR PEOPLE EVERY DAY.

   10,000 MORE NEW HOMELESS BECAUSE FOLKS LIKE YOU ARE HERE TO TAKE OUR SPACES, RESOURCES AND LOCAL CASH FLOWS AWAY.

   WE SHALL NOT SUPPORT THAT.

Uber-Lyft Banned in Virginia
    We often drink and smoke and have all kinds of folks stop by us and we NEED THE SPACE WE ALREADY OCCUPY without anyone's bike being near or around us.   

     We do not want to be responsible it someone spills coffee or soda or food on it and we don't want THE INTERRUPTIONS in our thoughts and conversations.

  Since all these FOR PROFIT valet parkers, food bike messengers and amateur for hire renegade drivers (Uber, Lyft, et al) came to town in the past five years -- we've had more NOISE, congestion, pollution, stress, irritations, conflicts, harm and death. .

Dangerous Black Uber SUV Story
     More importantly, our peers are part of the groups who are documenting bad drivers and bad bikers to keep us all safe.

    We're in support of clear bike lanes and every time you stubborn, rude bikers INSIST on parking your bikes at meters INSIDE our meeting circles you are negatively impacting community efforts to support those clear bike lanes.


   Story:   Bad Uber Drivers Endangering Pedestrians With Malice and Blocking Our Expensive and Popular Bike Lanes, here:  

   http://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2014/12/speeding-uber-driver-almost-runs-down.html

      
     So, when you see any group of folks standing in a circle on our streets, we  strongly advise you to LEAVE THEM ALONE. 

   DO NOT TRY TO WIGGLE YOUR BIKE 
INTO THE MIDDLE OF ALREADY OCCUPIED SPACES AFTER THE FIRST NO, PLEASE GO AWAY.

Otherwise,  we may start targeting illegally locked bikes and have them all confiscated and you will be fined.   In addition to public exposure and anti-harassment - restraining orders.

   Are we clear ?

SF Locals, SF Cannabis Patients' Union, SF Awareness Group Members






Wednesday, January 14, 2015

We All Pay - Uber and Other Drivers' Misuse of Commercial Plates and Meter Space For Personal Use

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - High Noon

        While checking out a cool S.F.F.D. Fire Truck parked in the red zone at the corner of Rondel & 16th Street, (where Esta Noche Cantina used to be, we saw an Uber Driver pull up and park in the Commercial Parking Only Yellow Zone, in front of El Cafetazo Cafe.  

     We took a picture and asked him about parking in a spot that is intentioned for commercial vehicles to come and go fast to do deliveries, loading and unloading.    He said, 'It's okay because I have commercial plates and that lets me park in any commercial zone like this.'   

     That sounds cool... but then we thought, wait a minute, if the intent of these spots is fast 'in and out' access to get goods and services into our local restaurants and shops, then what is the legitimate reason he is parking there, in fact ?

     Is he using the commercial space for bonafide commercial purposes, as intended or is he misusing or 'taking' that space, illegally for his own personal use, such as personal shopping or perhaps... eating a lunch at a nearby restaurant, but he doesn't want to pay for a real consumer parking spot... he'd rather slide by using a commercial space for personal stuff.

     It's our understanding that if a public servant uses city property for personal use, without legitimate approval,  it's considered to be 'an unlawful taking' or theft of city property.  

     If a caretaker uses a disabled person's car and placard to do personal shopping with, it's a criminal offense, like a kind of a fraud to use a valid thing to cover use of time or vehicles to do personal matters and errands with. It's a form of deception. 

  When people cheat like this, it tells us alot about their true underlying nature of their character and conduct 'when they think no one is watching'.   It's fun like babysitting bad spoiled children from afar.

    When the S.F.F.D. Firemen came over to their fire truck, we discussed slow emergency response times relative to increased number of amateur drivers for fire, who constantly block bike lanes, pull fast U-Turns,  leave 20 foot gaps in front and behind while sitting in traffic using their distractive devices and told the firemen the truth. 

    When our city is capable of STOPPING the renegades and regulation avoiders who are here en masse, clogging up our streets, stealing parking spaces and pissing off the entire town, slowing down all emergency responses and our normal local traffic & shopping patterns and flows --  we will NOT support using more tax money to buy more emergency response vehicles and personnel.   

    Why would any sane person support increasing the number of emergency vehicles and personnel on the road, not while we have ever increasing numbers of newcomer & other amateur drivers  IMPACTING OUR ABILITY TO MOVE FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER QUICKLY & SAFELY, IN THE FIRST PLACE.

   Adding more emergency vehicles will just cause more conflict and delays. 

  When our city leaders cater to corporations that BLOCK OUR ABILITY TO SAVE LIVES QUICKLY and FAIL  TO ENFORCE OUR LAWS TO STOP THEM then we must replace our city leaders.

    They sucked up to the same global banks and corporations that are plundering our city and stealing local cash flows.     

   They are causing a clear and present threat and danger to our people walking on the streets.

   They steal from mom and pop shops who need affordable space and unimpeded parking and pedestrian traffic flows by using commercial spaces for personal errands and driving while distracted, as a habit that kills.

    We're putting in a call to SFMTA and City Hall to learn if it's illegal for anyone to use commercial plates, to avoid paying their fair share of parking fees. 

  Or when they are using them for their own personal or non-commercial purpose or some other use -- which is not the intended use, as expressed by local codes.

Wall of Shame - Mural in da Mission
   Stay tuned....   we think MANY VALID COMMERCIAL vehicles are now driving round and round the block, causing more pollution, traffic, delays and costs to us all.    

  Only because scores of amateur drivers like from Uber and perhaps Lyft, et al. are TAKING AWAY & MISUSING space and meter time that was NEVER INTENDED to used by them for their personal errand parking convenience, in the first place.


  WANT TO HAVE MORE FUN ?   TRY THIS:

   1.  Call up Uber & Lyft - ask them if it's Company Policy to allow Uber Drivers to Use Commercial Plates to use to park in Metered Commercial Yellow Zones to do their personal errands with ? 

   2.   Call up SFMTA - ask them if it's cool to have Uber vehicles parked in LOADING ONLY Yellow Zones while they run errands and go eat lunch down the street ?

   3.   Call up the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Edwin Lee (aka Liar, liar, pants on fire, leave you to die in a bomb threat at city hall Mayor) - ask them:   

    Why Do You Let These Mega Corporations get away with grand theft, murder and causing over 5,000 local businesses and over 10,000 local residents become homeless in the past 3 years alone ?


       Why do you allow a climate to exist that results in over 3,000 Homeless children enrolled in schools to happen,  when there was only a few hundred, before Chase Bank & All These Global For Profit Monsters came to town starting in 2006-2007, to this very day.  

    SHAME ON YOU ALL !

      Why did you take away public bus lines on Valencia, spend a fortune on trees and bike lanes only to have Google Buses (often empty), Uber, Lyft and others come along and clog it all up and make it unsafe ? 

     They are over-running (aka Nazi Blitzkreig) our local mom and pops and local residents & existing public services and grass roots community groups (like in Our Bayview).   

    They continue to get away with this, only because of a general lack of protection and enforcement of laws that we wrote for our protection. 

Honor Given To Known Criminals
   To reduce harm, costs, risks and save lives and be locally prosperous, self-sufficient and independent of not from here banksters, corporations and bad higher government.

   Why Do You Honor Known Criminals Like Raymond Chow ?

      Ask them if they are Traitors or are they Honorable leaders ? 

    Ask them if they are going to admit they screwed up big time for short term personal, political and other gains by destroying the lives of over 10,000 San Franciscans who did no wrong, caused no harm.

  They were simply PUSHED OUT by renegade techies who do not respect locals, do not respect our traditions, customs, laws and ways of living.

  They are here to take, take, take and our current city leaders ARE GUILTY AS CHARGED.

   Gee, we sure wish the Honorable San Francisco Board of Supervisor Jane Kim would be OUR MAYOR & KICK ASS of all these carpet bagger, newcomer plunderers that our current Mayor kisses up to... 

What a piece of work Lee turned out to be. 

 His actions have spoken louder then his empty or much too late promises...  to many, it's a disgusting lack of honor or heart FOR THE PEOPLE.  


Bit Younger Jane Kim circa 2005
   JANE KIM TO THE RESCUE !?!?!

    We've watched her 'really grow up' these past few years and have gotten to know her and understand her better. 

    She's for real.  She's not for sale to greedy shortsided developers and carpet baggers from the East.      

    She has A HEART and IS VERY SMART and understands CIVIL RIGHTS.

    She WORKS WITH OUR PEOPLE, not making megabucks on the side harming them and making them become homeless.

   WE ARE BEHIND YOU 100% JANE! 


THINK ABOUT IT... THE HONORABLE MAYOR JANE KIM FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO ...

 OR THINK ABOUT BECOMING CALIFORNIA STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.  

WE CAN SEE IT NOW! 

Swearing In Ceremony for BOS Seat 
.... HERE'S THE HONORABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL JANE KIM IN FRONT OF SF CITY HALL - ANNOUNCING THE END OF PROHIBITION AND ELITE MONOPOLY STATE LAWS WE DO NOT NEED TO PROTECT US FROM CANNABIS.  

    ATTORNEY KIM EXPLAINS CLEARLY TO THE MASSES OF SICK, TIRED, ELDERLY PATIENTS, WRONGFULLY JAILED CANNABIS PRISONERS AND VETERANS AND COLLECTIVE MEMBERS, 

      "WE CAN LONGER RUN AWAY FROM THE TRUTH OF THE HISTORY OF CANNABIS & TYRANNY IN OUR CITIES, STATES OR NATION.

     WE ALL =KNOW= IT'S A SAFE HELPFUL GIFT OF NATURE AND POLICE ACTION TO ENRICH THE ELITE IS A RACKETEERING FRAUD THAT IS NEARLY 100 YEARS OLD.

       IT'S UP TO EACH ADULT AND THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY TO HAVE ALL POWERS, BENEFITS, RIGHTS TO CANNABIS, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD...  
     THIS IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PEOPLE'S PRE-EXISTING NATURAL, HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS UPON WHICH WE STAND, UNITED, AS FREE PEOPLE.

     WE, MEANING THE PEOPLE OF SOUND MIND AND GOOD INTENT DO NOT NEED GOVERNMENTS OR CORPORATIONS TO EXPLOIT OUR SAFE GIFTS FROM NATURE ANY LONGER. 

    WE ARE WEARY OF THEIR MONOPOLIES AND INCREASED BURDENS AND COSTS THAT GO TO THE ELITE.  WE NO LONGER NEED THEM TO FULLY ACCEPT CANNABIS BACK TO OUR SELVES AND OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES AS WE WISH"

   IMAGINE THAT PEOPLE!  

 A CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY - FOR THE PEOPLE - AS OUR STATE'S TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.

Do you think she would let The Elite get away with destroying our local cannabis collectives and allow them to create Cannabis Monopolies For The Elite ?   

   WE NEED HER IN THE HIGHEST POWER POSITION WE CAN GET HER INTO!

 Cheers to you all.  Remember you are never alone.   There are new groups -not on facebook- growing all over many other Social Network Sites that do not track you or resell your personal data and habits and contact lists.    We've been reviewing a list of 49 Alternatives To Facebook and will update that Issue in a few months.   We're already on a so-far-so-good, steady-as-we-go 'secure' sites in Iceland which are on two sites.

   One site (https://seen.is) is for more public group social networking with forums and groups, classifieds and is very cool and clean.  You'd be surprised how many groups you know and don't know have scrambled like bees to Seen.Is to get away from the others we can't trust.

      The other twin site is ( https://UnSeen.Is) is very much more private. Great for secure, voice, text, video chat and group and team building for family, trusted peers, other group leaders, et cetera, so you can get real stuff done, without advertising or constant commercialized distractions or the taking of your personal data and content for profits like facebook and all like them have done, to us all for too long.

     Stay safe and never be alone on the Streets of San Francisco or the place where you live.

    s/J. Leonard & group peers

   Founder/Members of SF Cannabis Patients' Union, SFAwareness Group (c) 2007-2015

   Now safe on Seen & UnSeen.is Social Network in Iceland:   https://www.seen.is/group/7377
   Seen.is went from 2,550 Members on November 7, 2015 to more than 90,000 Members Today!