From today’s Matier & Ross column in the SF Chronicle:<\/p>\n
We couldn’t make this up: San Francisco cops got a call the other day from a Public Works street-cleaning team that couldn’t get around a couple of passed-out inebriates at Mason and Market streets. <\/p>\n
Sgt. Joe Garrity arrived, called for a van to take the drunks to a shelter and started to wake up everyone for the ride. He noticed that one of the drunks was
\nsleeping on a leather jacket and using a motorcycle helmet as a pillow. <\/p>\n
A little odd, but what the heck. It was the Tenderloin, where things are always a little odd. <\/p>\n
Garrity managed to get the drunk, whose name was Rick, to stand up — although not very steadily.<\/p>\n
Everything was going fine until the van arrived. Then Rick started getting belligerent, telling Garrity, “I’m not going anywhere without my bike. ” <\/p>\n
“What bike?” Garrity asked. <\/p>\n
“That one,” Rick said, pointing to a Harley-Davidson parked in the middle of the sidewalk. <\/p>\n
“That’s yours?” the incredulous Garrity asked. <\/p>\n
“Yep, that’s Rick’s bike,” said one of the drunk’s friends. <\/p>\n
The bike didn’t have any plates on it, so Garrity called in a quick check of its vehicle ID. <\/p>\n
Sure enough, the 2003 Sportster 1200 was indeed registered to Rick. <\/p>\n
Rick then told Garrity that he’d just bought the Harley from the Dudley Perkins dealership in San Francisco for $7,000 — and that he’d made the money panhandling on the street. <\/p>\n
“It took me three years,” Rick said proudly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From today’s Matier & Ross column in the SF Chronicle: We couldn’t make this up: San Francisco cops got a call the other day from a Public Works street-cleaning team that couldn’t get around a couple of passed-out inebriates at Mason and Market streets. Sgt. Joe Garrity arrived, called for a van to take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}