A SF Protestacular!

This post is about a day late, but I got a taste of my first protest in a city that is famous for them. The Olympic torch made a highly contested stop in San Francisco on it's way to Beijing for the Summer Olympics in August. You have to live under a rock not to have heard something about the craziness that ensued yesterday, but basically there were thousands of people supporting Tibetan freedom and denouncing the Chinese government. Of course the SFPD saw this coming and had a contingency plan where the torch disappeared for about 30 minutes and reappeared on Van Ness and headed over the Golden Gate bridge. 

Two of my coworkers were eating lunch with a customer at a fancy restaurant downtown right around the time the protesters found out where the torch had reappeared. So, as they sipped lattes in opulence, hundreds of people rushed by the restaurant windows hell bent on catching the torch. 

Meanwhile myself and several other coworkers went out to lunch and as we were walking to the restaurant, several police cars and a bomb squad truck go racing past us headed in the direction of the torch relay.

All in a Wednesday's work in San Francisco!