This photo, sent to the Chronicle anonymously, shows San Francisco fire Department firefighter Sabine Balden of Dykes on Bikes riding topless at the SF Gay Pride Parade. The image has been digitally altered for publication.
Posted on 07/07/2008 10:18:06 AM PDT by SmithL
Sometimes it pays to get fired.
In addition to an estimated $148,000-a-year pension, freshly canned Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly is entitled to cash out her accrued and unused benefits totaling more than $90,000.
The bennies include:
-- Nine weeks of vacation.
-- Two weeks of management leave.
-- Three weeks of executive leave.
-- Ten weeks of sick leave (paid out at 33 cents on the dollar).
It's a grand total payment of $90,024, city officials confirmed.
Mayor Ron Dellums fired Edgerly after she refused to go away quietly when she was accused of interfering in a police investigation that involved her nephew.
Not that she'll be hurting, but Edgerly would have been better off financially if she'd stuck to her original plan to retire July 31.
Had she done that, officials say, Edgerly would have been entitled to what probably would have been a 3 to 4 percent pay hike - meaning at least an extra $4,000 a year during retirement.
...Pride ride: An off-duty San Francisco firefighter was snapped riding topless with Dykes on Bikes during the big Gay Pride Parade.
The bare-chested belle, Sabine Balden, probably wouldn't have registered much more than a few snickers, except the photo also showed the 10-year veteran firefighter wearing what appeared to be her official badge pinned to her black-and-white-striped bustier.
And wearing a badge off-duty is against the rules unless the boss gives the OK.
Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the matter is under investigation and declined to comment further.
..."I'm perfectly happy to be riding topless in the parade. That's what gay pride is all about."
We were able to contact fire union boss John Hanley - up on the fire line in Butte County - who told us that while he hadn't seen the photos, "I'm sure it wasn't a Fire Department badge."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
OMG.
HOG on HOG!
Dykes on Bikes.....
This phraseology still makes me laugh!...
Guilty.
HOG on HOG!....
Perhaps DOG on HOG?....
That picture should come with a warning label.
Thank God.
Does
Not
Compute.
I wonder if she makes that skidding tire chirping noise sliding down the pole.
Those “digitals” surely are flabby and floppy!
That is a hate crime.
This THREAD should come with a warning label. OMG!!!
She would have to be a Lezbo, no man would hit that!!!!!
Ever notice that lesbian couples generally have a manly-looking one paired with a feminin one? Seems FREUD WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL. Bet the girl on the back has a father that looks like the one in the front — minus the sagging thingies perhaps (or perhaps not).
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