Posted on 06/15/2024 1:14:57 PM PDT by lowbridge
Gabriel Shin described the attack at the hands of another San Francisco firefighter. "The whole time I was yelling at him, I said, 'Robert, stop, what's wrong with you, stop,' you know, and he just didn't stop. He was relentless."
Shin is talking publicly for the first time about a brutal attack that he says ended his career. Another firefighter stands charged with beating him with a hydrant wrench.
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Connected to this attack, Gabriel Shin has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that asks a basic question. Why was the victim forced out of the San Francisco Fire Department and the suspect still works there?
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Court records show that, two days after that phone call, Robert Muhammad used a computer at Station 25 to retrieve Shin's work schedule and his home address, and left the station with what's called a "hydrant spanner" - a heavy, brass wrench measuring 15 inches that's used to turn the water on and off. Muhammad drove across the bridge to Shin's home in Oakland and found him out front, sweeping the sidewalk.
"I heard somebody say, 'Are you going to tell me, are you going to tell me who told you?'" Shin said. "And I turned around and I said, 'Robert, what are you doing here?' He said, 'Who are you protecting?' I said, 'I forgot.' And then he reached into his back pocket. He pulled out the large brass spanner, and he started swinging at my head."
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Court records allege Muhammad swung the wrench at Shin's head approximately twelve times, breaking his arms as he tried to protect himself, giving him a concussion. One blow sent Shin's glasses across the street, he said. The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.
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Muhammad.
Only stopped when neighbor pulled a gun.
“ hydrant spanner”
It’s a term for the specific tool.
“The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.”
Depends. Pin and hook spanners are commonly referred to as such, as least where I’ve worked. I’d say it’s reserved for specialty tools designed for a singular purpose, like a hydrant.
A total mystery.
Plenty of different “spanner wrenches” in the American lexicon.
Plenty of different “spanner wrenches” in the American lexicon.
https://www.finepowertools.com/hand-tools/spanner-vs-wrench/
I have never used the word spanner...............
Yes, but I’ve only heard it in Brit manuals.
“The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.”
What if the neighbor didn’t work against human trafficking? Would that have meant being brought up on gun charges?
I don’t think I saw it in Chilton’s.
Hayes, though, yes, of course.
You must live a sheltered life.
You must live a sheltered life
I was just poking you.
Just most of the Fire Departments in the USA call a spanner a spanner, however it might be shaped several ways.
interesting. note the following usage and dates. Libs are busy changing words again.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spanner
Examples of spanner in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The delusion is to believe that moral purity and perfection are possessions, that imperfection is shameful, that violence is a spanner in the works, rather than part of the inner portion of everyone.
—Lawrence Jackson, Harper’s Magazine, 10 July 2023
European politicians now fear a Magyar spanner in the works.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
McCarthy, for instance, largely used his perch to put a spanner in the works of the legislative process while pushing the ridiculous investigations favored by right-wing media and the party’s most radical members.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
Few affairs of the quantum world are simple, but the spanner in these quantum works is the fact that the Standard Model’s prediction itself is blurry.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
The 2024 Mercedes-AMG EQE SUV, however, tosses a tiny yet highly conductive virtual spanner into that symbiotic groove.
—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023
There is a strong suspicion that nicotine can throw a spanner in the works throughout this time — a particular concern given the growing popularity of vaping among young people.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
Making these fixes takes more than a spanner or some glue.
—Solitaire Townsend, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
The fire hydrants I’ve seen use 5-sided ‘shafts’ for the valve control. A normal open end wrench, or even a 6 or 12 sided socket won’t fit it. A crescent wrench with parallel ‘faces’ won’t fit. (A pipe wrench will work, biting into the shaft).
This keeps the ordinary citizen from fooling with the hydrant.
A 5-sided ‘socket’ on the spanner will fit perfectly.
I would like a little more context here before making a judgment. Given the location this seems a bit gay.
The fact the reporter omitted any context likely confirms it.
The failure of the San Francisco Fire Department to protect Gabriel Shin's personal information is a contributor to his injuries.
Gabriel Shin needs to sue the snot out of the city of San Francisco.
British usage, like calling a car hood a “bonnet” . . . .
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