Mission Mission

Mission Mistaken drops us this note about trashcans:

Lemons into lemon peels and all that.  I could only find two cans that I think are sufficiently groovy, and neither is easily ordered online.  But they are cool.

But I just think it would be good to put the word out there that for all the hoopla about the new rules, no one is offering stylish ways to conform.  I think it would be fun if you guys challenged your community of readers to be as inventive with this subject as they are with everything else.  Cause bottom line, saving food scraps in a special place is just nasty.  It sets you back 1000 years and smells and attracts pests and pets.

I’m not sure about a design contest, because I come from a land that burns our garbage, taunts it, and occasionally shoots at it, so I don’t really understand this liberal Gomorrah’s ritual around trash.  That said, if you know of some sufficiently groovy solutions to our government-mandated compost crisis, we’d sure be appreciative.

Vegansaurus has the scoop on how Mission Mission’s constructive criticism was received.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• Mission Vegans Need to Learn How to Market Themselves

Looks like there is a slight uptick in gunpoint-robberies in the Mission.  Mission Loc@l reports there was a robbery at 2:23 last Thursday morning.  A tipster also tells us this tale from Thursday afternoon:

I got robbed by a dude with a gun at the laundromat at 20th and Guerrero, at around 6 pm.  We were both hanging out at the laundromat for like 45 minutes, me waiting for my stuff to dry and him I guess working up the nerve to rob me. About 15 minutes after I got there he came over and said he was hungry, so I gave him the bag of kettle chips I was eating. He didn’t look or sound very threatening. But what do I know, because about 30 minutes after that he pulled out a gun and told me to put my purse on the table and get on the floor. Like I said, there was no cash or anything valuable in my bag ( which I tried to tell him, but he just threatened to shoot me).

Description of the above robber? “tall, very skinny, sort of hungry/stressed out looking black guy, maybe late twenties?”

Okay, what did I miss?

“16th street Bart station lock down. Trains not moving, police with rifles everywhere.” (link)

UPDATE: Eve over at the SF Appeal got the low-down.  Apparently there was an attempted assault “in the immediate area” but the suspect fled before the police showed up.

Brittney Gilbert reports that a man on the 49 around 26th and Mission had his wallet stolen right out of his hand.  It sounds like the kids who stole the wallet did not even try to be discrete about it:

“To clarify, two teens on the 49 took a man’s wallet that was in his hand, and hared him to do something about it.  He did not.” (link)

To reiterate:

Get a u-lock

A reader, Joe, sends in this thrilling tale of being held-up at gunpoint on Harrison:

Last night my friend and I had the pure joy of being held-up at gunpoint, and it went a little something like this:

- Around 1am in a car at 22nd and Harrison, we get a tap on the driver-side window from the gun barrel of our new acquaintance, his best buddies presents themselves on the passenger side… 3 black males, early to mid 20s, dressed kinda like diamond thieves (all black heavy jackets and ski caps)

- Without any commotion or raised voices, we open the door and proceed to quietly and casually present them with our personal effects… (her purse & phone, my wallet)

- They take off behind us, I proceed to call the cops as we drive away…

Now, for some reason I defaulted by calling the general number for SF Police -who then instructs me to call 911, which then disconnects me twice. Marvelous.

I call back the general number and insist on having them provide dispatch since calling 911 was a world of fail. In less than 2 minutes a few cruisers show up to take things from there.

Goodtimes indeed.

The SFPD Public Affairs Office had no knowledge of any problem with the 911 system.