Poster by Rich Black. (via SFist)

SFBay.ca reports:

What does it take to get a burned-out City streetlight replaced? How about a vicious rape.

A streetlight at 24th and Fair Oaks was burned out the night of a violent rape that sent a woman to the hospital and left a sidewalk splattered with blood.

Andy Segal, president of the Fair Oaks Community Coalition, told SFBay after Wednesday’s community meeting at St. James Church that the streetlight had been burned out “for a while,” and that neighbors had reported the burned out streetlight without response from The City, PG&E, or the Public Utilities Commission. […]

Supervisor Scott Wiener also said that the light was not operating the night of the attack. The streetlight was hurriedly fixed by PG&E Monday morning, after being contacted by Wiener’s office.

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