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It was sad to hear that a homeless man in Berkeley who did a good deed by removing the hose running from a cars  tailpipe into the drivers side window had that good deed undone.

It seems that the homeless man then flagged down a Berkeley police officer who attempted to smash the window so that ’the guy in the Subaru’, as he’s referred to in the sflist article, could breathe something other than the “thick fog like cloud of carbon monoxide” for awhile.  Well, apparently ‘the guy in the Subaru’ didn’t appreciate a police officer attempting to smash his windows in and pressed his foot on the accelerator and took off.

This of course enticed the police officers, Sargent Patty Delaluna and Amber Phillips, to get into their cars and chase him. I’m not sure what crime ‘the guy in the Subaru’ was guilty of at that point… attempted suicide?  I do believe suicide is illegal but is attempted suicide illegal?  Or maybe its just the instinctual reaction that all police officers have, when someone runs, they chase. It seems police officers resemble cougars in that regard. 

Anyway, chase him they did until he crossed from the “…northbound lanes into the southbound lanes of The Alameda at speeds of at least 80 mph and hit a parked BMW before plowing into a parked Honda.”

It seems the truck went airborne and flipped over, landing on it’s top and killing the suicidal man.  So at this point “the guy in the Subaru” is definitely guilty, but we’re not sure what the punishment is for suicide. 

Seargent Mary Kusmiss said: “This is one of the most dramatic collisions we’ve seen in a very long time…”  We’re trying to get footage as we believe the one of the officers may have been leaning out the window of the police vehicle with her camcorder and filming the entire chase. 

But if there must be a moral to the story we would say that driving after inhaling carbon monoxide gas can result in erratic behavior and poor judgement. Also, the “thick fog like cloud of carbon monoxide” could most likely make it hard to see very well.  If you’ve ever been to a bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, you probably have a clue as to what it must have been like.  Your eyes burn and water from all the smoke making it hard to see who might be cruising you, not to mention that your clothes wreak when you get home… but I doubt if ‘the guy in the Subaru’ cared about his clothes smelling like exhaust fumes.

We at BerkeleyPC will always wonder what would have happened had the homeless man just pulled the hose out of the tailpipe and kept the police out of it. But of course we’ll never know the answer to that now will we.

A friend of BerkeleyPC’s has reported a sighting on Vine Street right across the street from the store she works at name La Terrestria. 

She had come out from the back and saw a white guy leaning against his Cadillac talking on his cell phone and wearing a ‘Do-Rag’.  He had a huge gold medallion hanging around his neck and big puffy white pants. 

When our friend saw him she got excited and grabbed her co-worker from the back so they could both look at him together.  When they got to the front and looked across they heard “What are you white bitches looking at?” Then into his phone he says, “I’m up here in North Berkeley and there’s some uppity white bitches at the store across the street staring at me.” 

We believe he may be in the early stages of a ‘Race Change’ procedure. 

We would like to hear from our other loyal readers that may have encountered this racial anomaly.  Also we would like a better description and pictures if you can get them and we’ll be glad to reward you with our John McCain 2008 Bumper Sticker pictured below:

I know this probably won’t be politcally correct but it was scary and as hard as I try, I just don’t know if I can fit into the PC Berkeley culture.  Sorry if the name of the blog has mislead you.  BerkeleyPC it seems is more about my trying to understand and fit in to Berkeley culture than it is about explaining how to do it. 

Anyway, here’s the frightening experience I had.  I was parked by the Berkeley YMCA which is right across the street from the Post Office.  I went in and got my mail, (oh yeah, check out the other frightening mail experience), and when I came back across I was about to get in my car and a …  woman??,  man??,  thing?? Cousin It??…. I’m sorry but I’m not sure what to put here.  It was something shaped like ‘Cousin It’ in a black Burka.  All I saw was a black head covering, something resembling a screen window over the face which didn’t allow you to see inside at all, and a black gown that covered everything, you couldn’t even see the feet.  It looked just like the one pictured only black, and it was walking down the sidewalk on the other side of the street. 

Then once I saw it and it saw me see it, it changed direction and jaywalked across the street right at me.  I nearly screamed. I wasn’t sure whether to run or stay and fight, but I knew if I stayed there could be an explosion, and I would be in pieces, so I figured that wouldn’t be the right thing to do.  But by the time I figured out running was the best thing to do, I realized it was too late.  There was no way I could get out of blast range in time.

So instead I froze with my hand on the car door and watched its every step.  It may have looked in my direction, I felt a glance but nothing indicated that it had turned it’s head so it must have been moving its eyes as it continued in front of my car and then down the sidewalk.

As I got in my car I was glad I didn’t run.  I was certain if I had done that, that it would have chased me and then let its finger off the trigger as soon as it was close enough.  Or if I got to a police officer first it would claim that I had tried to rape it and then disappear as I was explaining to the cop that the reason I was running was because I was afraid she, he or it might explode.

So that was my scary experience.  I apologize to all of the innocent Burka wearing Berkeley-ites who might be offended by this post.  I’m trying really hard.  Really, really hard. 

Well it finally happened, and I’m sure its simply the precursor to more of the same. Soon we’ll be loading all the Mexicans up on buses and sending them south of the border and Lou Dobbs will start whining about something new.

You see, the ‘Strada’ guy….. (’Strada’ is what he hollers out when your driving by. Nope, I’m not sure what it means. It might be Mexican for ’strawberries’ but I’m not sure)….anyway, the Strada guy that stands on the corner of Oxford and Cedar selling strawberries has been removed. I’m not sure where to, but he’s gone. He probably got his bus ride home is what I’m thinking.

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First off I want to let everyone know(that means you anonymous!) that I have added a poll to my blog. Please take the poll so I can get to know all of you (you, anonymous) better. With this knowledge I’ll be able to better target my blog to your specific personality type. Thanks!

It was a major event today at the Berkeley Post Office. I went to my PO box and got one of those yellow tags that says you have to wait in the long line to get your mail. It actually happens quite often because the po boxes in Berkeley are quite small. Read the rest of this entry »