Seems odds to find a big plank like that just laying around..she might have been carrying it in her cart to protect herself and just didnt want to admit it.
They need to be able to protect themselves. It has a make shift handle but is pretty worn so might have just been laying on the street.
“They need to be able to protect themselves.”
Protecting themselves and continuing the “protective action” after the need for protection disappears, are really two different things. If the woman had fended off her attacker, and then backed off, it would never had made the news as it wasn’t sensational enough. It’s a shock jock piece, not really news. In large cities like the bay area, this happens a lot more than is advertised. Media sensationalism. To me, it lowers the approval of the action by the presentation. Too bad, it could have been better handled by the “press.”
I, also, got a smile from the one poster that mentioned how market street was a good local. It’s actually one of the cankers of the city with more than 10 strip joints on it in the downtown area. It’s even advertised in yelp:
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=stripclubs&find_loc=Powell+Station%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA+94102
It was that way when I was playing football for a junior college in the early 70’s and we celebrated a win there. Not the fashion district, trust me.
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