Posted on 07/30/2023 10:15:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
The city of San Francisco has launched an investigation into Twitter headquarters, after a giant “X” was installed on the roof of the building without a permit amid the social media company’s ongoing rebrand.
The “X” was installed on top of the building in downtown San Francisco Friday, after police stopped workers earlier this week from dismantling the Twitter sign on the side of the building, according to The Associated Press. They reportedly lacked the proper permits and had not taped off the sidewalk as a safety measure.
Two new complaints were filed with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection on Friday, one over the “unsafe condition” of the Twitter sign and another over the installation of the “X” sign.
The “@” symbol of the partially dismantled Twitter sign is “dangling” from the building and “could fall to the public way causing harm to pedestrians,” according to one complaint.
The other complaint noted that a city inspector had visited Twitter headquarters and requested access to the roof, where the giant “X” had been installed, but was denied. A representative with the social media company reportedly told the inspector that the “X” structure was a “temporary lighted sign for an event.”
“A building permit is required to make sure the sign is structurally sound and installed safely,” Department of Building Inspection spokesman Patrick Hannan told The San Francisco Standard. “Planning review and approval is also necessary for the installation of this sign. The city is opening a complaint and initiating an investigation.”
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Maybe it’s a target. X marks the spot!
company advertises it’s name on its own building.
democrats outraged, vow investigations are forthcoming.
news at eleven.
Re “but those arseholes do it in the streets all the time”.
As Bob Hope once asked in a movie, “Oh, you mean Democrats”?
Re “but those arseholes do it in the streets all the time”.
As Bob Hope once asked in a movie, “Oh, you mean Democrats”?
Move.
Blow up the building.
A bunch of youth steal a sedan and drive it over the edge of a building onto the street, only for the San Francisco authorities to fail to prosecute.
But they have plenty of time to whine over an X sign over the Twitter building.
Your comment reminds me of a Jefferson Airplane song from their first album. Especially with regard to the wealth of Elon.
Tobacco Road (song)- about a guy (girl?) that is born and raised in a dump of a small town:
...I’m gonna leave and get me a job
With the help and the grace of God
I’m gonna save my money, get rich I know
Bring it back to Tobacco Road
Bring Dynamite, big old crane
Blow it up, tear it down, start all over again
Build me a town be very proud to show
Keep the name of Tobacco Road...
Elon is wasting time in SF. Should relocate the hq to Austin.
I forget what some have estimated the permitting and meeting code requirements is for a new home in Seattle. But it is a LOT. I seem to recall 100k on a million dollar home, but that seems far too high.
Everything down to the number and type of plantings the property needs to have.
Musk declared staying in San Francisco, let’s see if the idiots running the city screw that up and cause him to move.
This all goes along with, “you don’t own the property you bought, you just rent it” (property tax)...
And if he owns it, maybe it could be converted into housing units for the poor and unhoused. Great location - very near where the need is located.
That’s okay I’m certain that they can find a replacement tenant in that property when Musk moves his HQ and all those jobs to texas. Just think of all the perks the homeless will enjoy soiling.
LOL, yeah, them.
The X is obnoxious
Actually, “Tobacco Road” was by a British group “The Nashville Teens”
As a teen experiencing the British Invasion, lots of great music that left the “Bubble Gum” genre in its wake.
Why Musk continues to operate his business his business in San Fran Sicko
is a mystery to me.
Austin is a leftwing stronghold in Texas.
Musk confirmed last week that Twitter or X was not leaving the Bay Area. I guess the powers that be decided to double down on their efforts to drive him out of town.
Now, if they had been writing “BLM,” or “FDJT” instead, they wouldn’t have disturbed them. But “X” is cultural appropriation from the Nation of Islam acolytes of Malcom X.
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