Posted on 07/06/2024 8:41:23 PM PDT by thecodont
OAKLAND, Calif. - A major sideshow erupted on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge overnight.
It's becoming a common occurrence in the Bay Area.
The sideshow in the middle of the night came to a close with a fireworks show. Participants shot them 30 feet into the sky with cars taking over the bridge around 2 a.m. Sunday, causing traffic to come to a halt for about an hour.
Video shows multiple cars pulling donuts, getting dangerously close to spectators.
Passengers hung out of car windows and sat in truck beds, as drivers spun in circles.
"You could hear all the tires screeching and revving…It was wild, it was my first time ever, and it was kind of insane - scary and insane."
A driver, who didn't want to be identified, was caught in the traffic jam that he originally thought was the result of a car accident.
"I saw people getting out of their cars and running towards it. The first thing I thought was I gotta check to see that my doors are locked," he said. "I don't know what could happen, my car is in the middle of all the other cars, so I can't drive out, I'm stuck."
Bystanders appeared unfazed, as they recorded the chaos unfolding on their phones.
CHP was on scene, though there were no immediate reports of arrests or injuries.
The Bay Bridge has become a hot spot for sideshows. In April, another illegal sideshow left one bystander injured. The CHP detained four people in that case.
"We're clearly understaffed, both CHP and local law enforcement, and that needs to change because again people should not be able to get away with this," State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told KTVU Sunday.
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That’s the Piedmont area you’re describing.
Known as an oasis of style, order and civility.
Now their streets are getting marked up too?
Sad.
Talk to Governor Newscum. He's cutting law enforcement.
California Governor Newsom to slash police, prison budget by $200M
The progressive pecking order has changed. Tranny, homo, POC… Homo trumps POC.
I doubt that will have an effect.
They’ll just steal someone else’s car for the evening.
Once the uncivilized realize that the police are powerless, there will be no bounds to their disruptions. They will, eventually, come to a neighborhood near you. But, in the meantime, if you want to avoid the discomfort; you don’t go to the spaces they inhabit. I haven’t been to the Bay Area in years! What for?
“”We’re clearly understaffed, both CHP and local law enforcement, and that needs to change””
They want to raise taxes again, pay up California.
Liberal Paradise!
It’s the Temescal and Rockridge neighborhoods in North Oakland, just a couple of miles from Piedmont. It’s a shame.
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