Mission Mission

Plug1 of WHAT IM SEEING dot com brings us some cool shots of a local’s tattoos.

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McCafe Pimps seen coming from Capp St. at 17th

Yesterday afternoon, these five crappy-coffee pushers could be seen rolling down the length of Capp St. in their tricked-out Segways (peep those oversized off-roading tires; that’s how you know their seriousness knows no bounds).  At first, I figured they were completely unaware of where the centers of economic activity occur around these parts.  Then I realized the Capp St. corridor is the harbinger of Mission District economic progress.  Capp has 1.3 million dollar dream homes (one even has a carriage house for your collection of prize-winning mares complete with a special walk-thru featured in the Chronicle), an opening cupcake store, jaywalking has replaced prostitution has the street’s greatest crime, and crack prices are through the roof.  A rising tide lifts all boats.

I get it now, McDonalds.  I get it.

(photo by Jake of Headline Shirts)

Unfortunately I was slow on the camera draw, but that does not detract from the fact that there was a dude pushing a big stuffed llama on a skateboard down Capp St.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• Homeless Jester
• CHICKENS

This art car was found all over the Bay Area in 2005/2006,* including the best street in the entire Mission District, but is merely now a rarely viewed set of Flickr images.  Does anyone know whatever happened to this Lego art car?

* maybe earlier?  Flickr did not exist prior to then.  Mega tears.

(Photo 1 / Photo 2 by gleemie | More Photos at Pt. Reyes)

Stylin’ on Capp at 22nd.

Everyone knows Jaywalking is a serious crime and we should not be surprised if we actually get caught.  That said, as reader Dan points out, it’s Capp St.:

Just wanted to share a recent experience that I thought would never ever happen in the mission. On Sunday I got a ticket for jaywalking across Capp street at 18th!

Forget the fact that Capp street is barely wide enough to be a street (no offense) and that it’s between the much busier Mission and South Van Ness. Being Capp, there was probably a shooting, burning mattress, drug deal, other felony, or crime against humanity happening on every other single block of Capp. But the cops decided that the best use of their time was to fine me for crossing at the intersection on a red light. Never mind that there were no cars anywhere in sight. When I got halfway towards Mission a cop car stopped to my left, the cop got out and asked if he could talk to me. It took me a few minutes just to realize I had done something, and that he wasn’t asking if I had witnessed some murder. I don’t know if this was to meet a quota or what, but you could tell even the cop couldn’t take what he was doing seriously. I’m all for pedestrian safety and following the law, and i consider myself somewhat of a cycling safety advocate, but a citation for crossing Capp is just not saving anyone. There’s no reason for a light to be at Capp and 18th except for city fundraising efforts.

Now I know why my tenant agreement strictly forbids keeping wolves on the premises.

I excitedly ran over to my neighbor’s house with 537 dollars cash-money hoping to bet in a new Capp St. cockfighting ring only to discover that they are merely using them for a big chicken dinner.  Slaughtering chickens for food?  That’s just barbaric.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• $0.99 2-piece at Popeye’s
• Ba-Kok, New Kid on the Block

If anyone lost a bra Saturday at Capp and 20th, someone was nice enough to hang it from a stop sign and turn it into a windsock.

Plug1 of WHAT IM SEEING dot COM spotted this bust on Capp St. last night and took some great shots:

Last night, my wife and I had just eaten dinner at Cha Cha Cha and decided to meet her friends at Little Baobab.  There was a $5 cover charge, so I needed to hit an ATM.  I stopped into the corner store for some cash and a pack of cigs.  As I walked out 4 SFPDs swarmed the corner, where 2 fellows and and a young lady were standing around.  The police quickly cuffed all three.  I have no idea what they were being detained for.  When the guy in
[second to last photo] saw me photographing, he asked if I was going to put it on the internet.  I answered back “yeah” and one of the cops smiled at me.

In an unrelated Capp St. incident, Corinna spotted two people fleeing what appeared to be a fight at Doc’s Clock:

Walking back from  an awesome party, between Capp and Mission, two dudes were walking super fast down the street. One of them was changing his shirt, then the next one passed us, shirtless, covered in blood. As soon as we got to Mission we saw a bunch of cop cars driving around looking presumably for those dudes so we pointed them down 22nd. There was a huge crowd of people toward Doc’s Clock – I imagine something happened around there. But I have no idea what.

Capp was clearly the center of the action Friday night.

Do I love this Capp St. art or do I hate it?  I’m sure the comments will fill you in.