Scene from June 2012's shooting.

According to the Chronicle, one man was killed and another three men were shot outside Double Dutch in the waning hours of Independence Day celebrations:

24-year-old man was killed and three other men were injured in an early morning shooting Friday outside a bar in San Francisco's Mission District, authorities said.

Police said the assailant approached a group, pulled out a handgun and opened fire outside Double Dutch, a bar near 16th and Guerrero streets around 1:30 a.m.

This follows a “savage beating” and shooting fatality outside the same club in early June 2012, which we reported at the time, “patrons of nearby Kilowatt claimed to witness a 'savage beating' and shooting outside of Double Dutch at 16th and Guerrero.  Supposedly, after beating the victim to the ground, one of the attackers pushed a 9mm handgun in his chest and shot him.”

According to Mission Local, police described the suspect as “medium build, 6 feet 1 inch tall, between the ages of 25 and 30” and wearing a wearing a white shirt and white bandana.  He remains at large.

As BART contends with Muni for the esteemed designation as the most deranged transportation system in the Bay, the revolving 16th and Mission crime scene once again played host to stabbing and showdown with police.  On Friday evening, a male suspect involved in a stabbing at a local Chinese restaurant attempted to make his escape at the BART station, only to be chased by BART police.

According to an eyewitness who relayed the tale to SFist:

They told him to show his hands. I didn't see what the guy did but there was suddenly tons of yelling and they all drew their guns on him. I jumped into the train and climbed under a seat with the other train riders. There was one shot fired and then more yelling. I stayed under my seat for about a minute and then saw a huge crowd of people gathering to take photos. I peeked out to see at that point and the guy was on the ground sitting up handcuffed. They were cutting his clothes up/off. He had blood on his face. I think there was pepper spray because a cop was holding his own face. The guy was escorted out. He was walking.

The whole scene was cleaned up within 10-15 minutes, at which point the eyewitness's train departed for the normalcy of Oakland.

[SFist | Photo by Burrito Justice]

Because riding Muni's wheeled nutbin isn't fun enough, a group of feral teens have discovered a way to “kick open” the back doors of the buses and jump out of them while traveling at top speed (25mph).  From The Examiner:

Between May 30 and June 9, there were 15 recorded incidents of passengers illegally opening doors and jumping out of Muni buses between stops. The infractions — which are now being investigated by police as criminal acts — were recorded at locations from Silver Terrace to the Outer Richmond district. The majority took place on Muni's 14-Mission Limited line, although the most recent incident occurred Sunday night on the 38-Geary. […]

At first, Biel said, police thought it was passengers hastily looking to exit after mistakenly boarding an express bus, since most of the incidents occurred on the 14-Mission Limited. But now they're investigating the possibility of malicious mischief among a group of passengers.

According to a wheelman interviewed by The Chronicle, the sport may or may not be called “riding the surf,” coming from the participant's tendency to hang off the side of the bus before bailing.

This “incredibly stupid and callous” behavior has police scratching their heads, wondering how young men in the prime of their life could possibly engage in such life-endangering activities.  One theory is that the doors never opened at their stop in the first place and they just want to get off; another suggests they've committed crimes and looking to escape capture.

Of course, anyone who has ever ridden a yellow school bus before knows the allure of opening the emergency door and diving out the back—earning you the undue respect of your peers while simultaneously escaping that afternoon's would-be bullies.  It only makes sense that such heroics have made their way to Municipal Transport.

[SFgate | SF Examiner | Photo by Jeff Hunt]

Here we go again: another spring, another police crackdown of apparently illegal activities in Dolores Park.  Their annual dog and pony show of rounding up dealers and pushers and scolding the citizenry has become predictably routine, sadly.  And it clearly accomplishes nothing.  Alas, SFPD is busy dropping officers in the park while violent crimes remain unsolved.

But while we're not the least bit surprised SFPD has posted up in Dolores again, we cannot help but laugh at their recent bust of James “The Cold Water Guy” for selling bottled water.  That's right, water.  Water.

It was silly enough they had him arrested for flipping PBR for stupid prices last year, but come on.  Who knew SFPD could be this petty.

[Thanks Jack for the tip!]