Comments on: Attempted Strangling on Capp

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:31:28 +0000

It’s because the liberal response is not to help the person in need but to pat himself on the back for exposing “the man”. 911? Pshaw! Get a good beatin’ on tape? ‘Bama points.

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:31:47 +0000

The rest of the world is like Capp Street, only more so.

By: piratesnack

piratesnack — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:31:58 +0000

If you saw a crime being committed and had a camera ready, you wouldn’t record it? Seriously? Don’t you think that that might be helpful in catching the assailant?

By: loosecharm

loosecharm — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:51:37 +0000

So possible death is about to occur in front of you… and the FIRST action you take is to grab the… camera. And not the phone to call 911.

Hmmm…

By: void

void — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:42:41 +0000

awesome story

By: void

void — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:12 +0000

I stand corrected

By: olu

olu — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:21 +0000

Fear of getting stabbed shouldn’t be the primary reason to not intervene. How about the fact that when assholes collide, there will often be violence, and its not your (anyone’s) job to stop it.

Now if it seems like one person was being savaged by another, or the parties are grossly disparate in their relative strength levels, then you could make a case for intervening, but I don’t think that should be the default. Sometimes the best thing to do is just bear witness and report.

By: Stucco-sux

Stucco-sux — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:34:44 +0000

SFPD can be really tone deaf when it comes to neighbors being vigilant. They have no real mechanism for on the scene witnesses. You have to be willing to get into the mix, or the guy gets off. Its kinda dopey. My personal favorite tale E*V*E*R:

We have a guy who lives in his van nearby, from Mexico, and once in a blue moon he gets really really drunk and starts wailing about love lost and banging his head against telephone poles. One time, the police showed up and circled him (two cars, four cops) at 18th & Harrison and tried to talk him down. We are all milling around for a sec, watching the drama, when lo and behold a 68 Chevy lowrider chock full of these ginormous tattooed gang members comes racing toward us on Harrison. They espy the police activity and faster than you can say “Kamala Harris” they bump the car onto the sidewalk and proceed at the same speed, lights now off, right up to the intersection where the cops are. The back door opens and out tumbles a really pissed off, high as a kite hooker. I turn to one of the four cops standing there and said “Did you see that?” (Meanwhile the chevy has backed up and is turning around, and the hooker is screaming in spanish at the chevy). The cop didn’t even look at me and said: “That’s not what we’re here responding to.” True story.

By: jimbeam

jimbeam — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:01:58 +0000

Wrong. The whole world is Capp Street.

By: void

void — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:10:39 +0000

the whole world is turning into Capp Street

By: Kevin Montgomery

Kevin Montgomery — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:13:55 +0000

The same reason we post about muggings, shootings, drive-bys, beatdowns, thefts, and other domestic disputes: to make you angry.

By: meave

meave — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:23:59 +0000

Why exactly did you record this, and why are you posting it here? There are plenty of violent videos already online, and they’re gross enough.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:28:19 +0000

Yeah, good old-fashioned alcohol can do that, too.

By: zinzin

zinzin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:23:28 +0000

meth clouds one’s judgment. and crack.

is that presumptuous?