Legendary blogger and former Missionite Tony Pierce, in a post about skateboard designer Todd Francis, recalls a fearsome tale of the Mission in the ’90s:
after college when i was transferred up to Frisco i needed a place to live and he had a spare room in his apartment on 22nd and Folsom.
we had a mice problem. there was a hole in the apartment somewhere. but he had these giant snakes in this cloudy fish tank.
he let them out to roam. they ate all the mice and slithered back into their tanks.
Read on for the rest of Tony’s story.