Swat Club There are a lot of things that make San Francisco great, but in the end it's the little things that really make this place awesome. You know, things like this. The robbing of a strip club isn't, in and of itself, that interesting. What is awesome about this is encapsulated in two of the quotes in the story. Exhibit A: "It was a large building with a lot of rooms - they had to make sure nobody was hiding in closets or cubbyholes,'' said a police spokeswoman, Officer Maria Oropeza. Did you see what they just did there? This whole thing didn't take place in a strip club. It was some kind of super cool fort! Those bastards tried to knock over Romper Room, and I hope they are caught with all due haste and made to pay. Never mind that the "closets" were probably more well known by patrons as "shower booths", and the "cubbyholes" could be more accurately portrayed as the rooms in which daddy sometimes hires a temporary mommy for a quick gavotte. No, we here in this fine city are refined and sophisticated. We would never say something as crass as, say, oh - "It was a large building with all sorts of dank, filthy corners in which the dregs of humanity often ply their trade. From buying smack to selling blow jobs - Welcome to the byzantine!" Or, something like that. Exhibit B: "He said there was a robbery -- four guys with masks tried to rob the place," Amin said. "He went away to call the police. Some of the girls were there already. This - This is the heart of tolerance in San Francisco. Nobody cares what you do as long as they don't have to see it (unless they want to) and you buy their shit when you're done (unless the shit being sold is required prior to beginning). Many people feel that there is a fair amount of hostility towards interlopers. They assume that it's a case of self-righteous "natives" being assholes who hated anybody who wasn't born here. Not true! It's not that San Franciscans hate you, it's just that they love your money more than they love you. I know I've painted a bit of a nasty portrait of this city, but really, this place is hilarious. How many cities can you say are hilarious, eh? Eh!?
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