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We still don’t know the motive of the man who was shot and killed after driving into the SF Chinese consulate last week, but at a town hall meeting showing the officers’ bodycam videos, we see that the suspect was indeed swinging a knife.

It was a week ago  Monday when SFPD shot and killed a man who drove his car into the Chinese consulate on Geary Boulevard. We learned a few days later that driver was 31-year-old Zhanyuan Yang of San Francisco, and driving into the consulate may have been politically motivated. Eyewitnesses reportedly heard the man yelling "Where is the fucking C.C.P.?," (an abbreviation for the Chinese Communist Party). The act is being treated as an international incident, as next month’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders summit is expected to draw President Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and scores of other diplomats.

So tensions are running unusually high. And it’s standard operating practice that SFPD holds a town hall meeting in the wake of any police shooting, but Thursday's town hall likely drew international attention, given the anxiety around the upcoming high-profile APEC summit.

Thursday’s hour-long town hall meeting can be seen above. It contains several officers’ bodycam footage of the incident, as well as multiple 911 calls that notified the police. Be warned that the bodycam footage is graphic, and begins at the at the 32-minute mark.

Other evidence was shown too. We can see why there were initial reports that Yang had a gun (which he did not), because the crossbow in his car pictured above could be mistaken for a firearm. Yang was also armed with a 3.5-inch knife, which reportedly prompted the shooting.

Acting SFPD Commander Mark Im said the department was notified at 3:08 p.m. on that day that a driver in a Blue Honda had intentionally driven the vehicle into the consulate, the driver was armed, and two security guards were holding him.

Three of those 911 calls were played in the town hall meeting. One of these was from within the consulate, with the caller saying, “A car drive into the Chine Embassy  and the guy have a gun.” That same caller is heard frantically yelling to the people around him, yelled “Lock door!”

Another caller told the dispatcher “It is on purpose” and not an accident that the driver drove into the building. A dispatcher is heard confirming to another caller that Yang was “fighting with security.”

Note: There are graphic images from the bodycam video below.

When officers arrived, the atmosphere was pretty heavy with pepper spray that security guards had already used on Yang. Yang’s vision was clearly compromised, and several officers can be heard choking because of the pepper spray in the air.

Acting Commander Im said that Yang “exposed a knife in his right hand,” and made “multiple rapid downward swinging motions with the knife.” Yang was told to get on the ground, and did not. He was shot by by SFPD patrol sergeant Troy Carrasco, who can be heard afterward telling either officers or witnesses, “You guys should have told me he had a knife.”

Yang was taken to the hospital, where he died.

The presentation also played some footage that has already been made public via social media.

SFPD Chief Bill Scott did face a pointed question from KGO’s J.R. Stone, regarding why police shot when it appeared Yang’s vision was very much compromised by the pepper spray.

“We don’t really know what this person can see or not see,” Scott said. “Look, I’ve been pepper sprayed before. Sometimes, you can weather through that, it just depends on your resilience. We can’t assume what he could or couldn’t see.”

Police say they also found two .40 caliber fired cartridge casings in Yang’s vehicle. They have still not revealed any possible motive for Yang’s driving into the consulate.

Related: Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC [SFist]

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SF’s new completely public parklet has opened on Page Street near Golden Gate Park, as that designated Slow Street gets a public parklet with benches, plants, and a tiny free library.

This weekend was the final Sunday Streets of the season. As that program does every year, their final Sunday is also a collection of smaller Sunday Streets events called Phoenix Day, generally held on Slow Streets. And one of those Slow Streets had something special up their sleeve.

The Examiner reports that a public parklet had its grand opening on Page Street, a parklet which that paper describes as San Francisco’s “only parklet completely open to the public.” Most parklets, of course, are associated with a bar or restaurant, and are only open to their patrons.

This new Page Street parklet is not to be confused with the magnificent parklet at the bar called The Page, which is located at Page and Divisadero Streets. The Examiner describes this new parklet as being “on the eastern edge of Golden Gate Park.”

Page Street became a permanent Slow Street in January of this year, and about two dozen other SF streets have received permanent Slow Street status to reduce car traffic there. The Slow Streets program started early in the pandemic and spread widely across town. Some streets were made permanent Slow Streets, others returned to normal car traffic.

“Kudos to all of the amazing folks involved with this project,” the district’s supervisor Dean Preston said in a statement to the Examiner. “It took a ton of work, but now we have this amazing public space to gather, relax, explore books in the tiny library, enjoy beautiful flowers curated by kids from John Muir, and connect with neighbors and build relationships. This is what building community looks like.”

This parklet was funded by a city grant, was designed by volunteers, and will also be maintained by volunteers. And if the parklet is near Golden Gate Park, given the, erm, population that park attracts, it may need fairly frequent maintenance.

You can be one of those maintenance volunteers, as Page Slow Street has a volunteer signup form online.  

Related: SF Supervisor Proposes Waiving the First Year of Parklet Permit Fees [SFist]

Image: @PageSlowStreet via Twitter

Most Mission Street vendors do not even realize that SF is gearing up to ban vending on Mission Street, and we now learn the vending ban might only be in effect for 90 days.

In the ongoing  controversy over increasingly rampant illegal street vending on Mission Street, it was surprise news this week when the district’s supervisor Hillary Ronen announced a full ban on Mission Street vending that would go into effect in November. That comes after a permit system experiment did not do the job of taming the illegal vending scene, and SF Department of Public Works (DPW) employees say they've been threatened and attacked while trying  to enforce the permit system.

KGO did some follow-up on the ban, speaking to Ronen and a few vendors. And from Ronen, we get the new information that it may only be a 90-day ban, and that it won’t apply to all of Mission Street.

Ronen told KGO that "for 90 days, as an emergency measure to address health and safety issues, vending from Mission Street, from 14th to 25th and a small perimeter around the BART stations" would not be allowed. So that’s not the entirety of Mission Street, but it’s the stretch where most of the vending takes place.

And we do know that some of the items being sold are clearly stolen, and a few of these operations involve tens of thousands of dollars of allegedly stolen merchandise. But other vendors are permitted and legitimate.

KGO also spoke to a few of those Mission Street vendors. Many of them didn’t even know about the just-announced ban, and were flabbergasted by the news.

"This is going to impact us, and we are not at fault,” permitted vendor Cesar Rolando Canales told KGO, according to reporter Luz Pena’s interpretation. “We have kept the plaza very clean. This is how we make a living. This is how we are able to provide for our families.”

There may be more blowback to come, as the SF Latinx Democratic Club put out a statement Wednesday that it “condemns Supervisor Ronen’s proposed legislation to ban street vendors from Mission Street. This ban by Supervisor Ronen further exacerbates the violence our street vendors have had to experience.”

But according to DPW spokesperson Rachel Gordon, there’s been plenty of violence by some vendors and against city workers trying to enforce the permit system.

"Our inspectors have been offered bulletproof vests,” Gordon explained to KGO. “Some of them are availing themselves to that opportunity. They are wearing them. They have been punched, they have been poked. They've had things thrown at them."

There has been talk of permitted vendors being allowed to use vacant storefronts on Mission Street. Another detail we learn from this KGO report is that the vending ban, policy which still isn’t fully formed, might not apply to food vendors. And honestly, can you imagine how this city would react if bacon-wrapped hot dog carts were banned from Mission Street?

Related: Now 16th Street BART Plaza Has Those Metal Anti-Vending Barricades Put Up, Too [SFist]

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Jelly Belly, which is headquartered in Fairfield and one of that city’s largest employers, announced the bittersweet sale to Chicago-based Ferrara Candy Company Wednesday.

In a bittersweet twist, one of Fairfield’s biggest hometown companies, Jelly Belly, has been acquired by the Chicago-based Ferrara Candy Company, which owns several candy brands such as Nerds, Laffy Taffy, SweeTarts, and Trolli gummies.

Jelly Belly, which is headquartered in Fairfield and one of the city’s largest employers, announced the sale in a press release Wednesday, according to the Bay Area News Group.

It's a pivotal moment in the history of the company, which was founded in Illinois in 1896. Jelly Belly has been owned by the same family for six generations and expanded its reach to California and even Thailand, according to SFGATE. Founder Gustav Goelitz reportedly first opened the company’s original candy shop in Belleville, Illinois, after which his son Herman moved the company to Oakland, and was somewhat surprisingly endorsed by California celebrity and politician Ronald Reagan in the 1960s. He apparently replaced his smoking habit with jelly beans, and particularly loved the licorice flavor (controversial). In 1985, the company reportedly moved its headquarters to Fairfield.

As the release reads, “Once the acquisition closes, nearly 800 global Jelly Belly employees and its facilities in California, Illinois, and Thailand will join the Ferrara organization.”

While the financial details of this deal are yet to be disclosed, the acquisition is projected to conclude by the end of the year, pending standard closing conditions, according to the Mercury News. And Jeff Brown, the current Executive Vice President of Global Operations and Distribution for Jelly Belly, is reportedly set to become the CEO upon finalization of the deal.

The vibrant and quirky Jelly Belly factory has been an emblem of Fairfield, alongside landmarks like Travis Air Force Base and the Budweiser plant. The mayor acknowledged to the Mercury News that the company represents a significant part of Fairfield's identity and charm, and that while she was nervous to see one of the city’s most famous companies acquired, she was relieved by reassurances that employees' jobs will remain secure.

Image via Fickr/Ken Lund under Creative Commons.

Thanks to a new traffic safety state law, SF is getting 33 speed cameras, to be placed in school zones and areas with the highest crash rates.

Following the passage of a new state law that will bring speed cameras to select cities, including SF, Oakland, and San Jose next year, city planners are figuring out just where to put them.

SF is getting 33 cameras, to be placed in school zones and areas with the highest crash rates as the new traffic safety bill mandates, per the Chronicle. The cameras will reportedly automatically track drivers’ speeds and send out fines for those above the speed limit by 11 miles an hour or more, starting at $50 and going up depending on the exact speed.

The specific locations of the cameras have yet to be determined, but SF officials have started deciding. Their criteria is traffic collision data and input from traffic safety advocates, according to the Chronicle.

SF government has some visualizations that let you see where those collisions and injuries tend to happen (seemingly clustered around Market Street near downtown, Civic Center, and northern parts of the Mission).

The city already implemented a traffic fatality action plan in 2014, called "Vision Zero." That initiative has already created some maps that show where fatalities have occurred over that time.

The process to decide the speed cameras' locations will take the SFMTA a year, as officials said and the Chronicle reported. After the streets are chosen, there will be a public information campaign to make sure drivers know, and any drivers caught in the first 60 days of the cameras' launch will receive a warning, no fine. Officials are also apparently planning to put up signs warning drivers that cameras are nearby.

Feature image via Unsplash/Eliobed Suarez.

There are some “You had one job” jokes being made at the expense of the MyShake earthquake notification app, as today’s scheduled 10:19 a.m. test alert instead blared out a 3:19 a.m. alert to potentially more than a million people.

Today is of course the Great Shakeout earthquake drill day, where schools, businesses, government institutions, and more around the world conduct simultaneous earthquake preparedness drills at 10:19 a.m. local time. BART, for instance, did their earthquake protocol with trains, and the SF Department of Emergency Management made their obligatory preparedness reminders.

But one of the most well-known Great Shakeout drill activities was a great screwup. NBC Bay Area reports that the MyShake earthquake alert app, whose test alert was scheduled for 10:19 a.m., actually went off at 3:19 a.m. Thursday morning. The unwelcome, late-night alert went to “potentially millions of people,” according to that station.

“You might have gotten a test alert from the @MyShakeApp early today,” the US Geological Service ShakeAlert Twitter account rather embarrassingly admitted in a 4 a.m. PT tweet.  “We acknowledge that no one wants to get a test message this early and we are working with our #ShakeAlert (technical) partner to determine what happened.”

The memelords are of course letting them have it over the mistake, though it appears the US Geological Service (USGS) and the folks at MyShake have figured out what went wrong. In a subsequent tweet, the USGS said “There was likely a mixup between time zones set in the test alert system.” And as CBS News points out, 3:19 a.m. Pacific Time is 10:19 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an international time standard for atomic clocks, so they likely set the alert for that incorrect time zone.

The MyShake app, available on both iOS and Android, is an app developed by UC Berkeley and the USGS. It issues smartphone alerts intended to arrive a few seconds before an earthquake hits, so people can run for cover. Its range covers California, Oregon, and Washington, and it has otherwise had a pretty good track record for early earthquake notifications.

People are going to make their jokes, but none of this should reduce the importance of earthquake preparedness. Do use this day as a reminder to have your earthquake disaster kit or “go bag” ready, and brush up on what to do in case of an earthquake.

As for the MyShake app, they said Thursday morning that they will “ensure that this will not occur in the 2024 ShakeOut Drill,” and that “The capability of MyShake to deliver realtime alerts for real earthquakes is not affected.”

Related: Great Shakeout Earthquake Drills Scheduled for Thursday, Which Means Yet More Earthquake Alerts [SFist]

Image: @USGS_ShakeAlert via Twitter

The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.

Four months after the district attorney declined to file charges against either of the two people who were left injured at the scene of the shootout, we get word that three others involved, likely from the other vehicle, have been taken into custody.

The shootout, which occurred between two cars on June 18, was a shock to city leaders, who quickly declared it a "miracle" that no one was seriously injured amid the flying bullets. It began around 6:45 p.m. on the Sunday of Father's Day in the vicinity of Beach and Stockton streets, near Pier 39.

The two cars involved proceeded to speed down the Embarcadero, and more shots were exchanged moments later as they reached Embarcadero and Howard Street. Police ultimately found over 20 shell casings, and multiple vehicles were damaged.

Six people were injured, including several hit by shards of flying glass from bullet strikes, and a 10-year-old girl who was walking a bicycle across the Embarcadero was among the injured.

Two individuals were injured in the shooting, and were both detained at the hospital after they crashed their car on the Embarcadero. One of those, 33-year-old Lee Haywood of Pittsburg, was arrested after being shot int he chest, but District Attorney Brooke Jenkins later declined to charge him — while no rationale was given, it appeared likely due to a self-defense claim.

The two adults now facing new charges in connection with the shootout are Richard Tuiasosopo and Xavier Pittman, and the DA's office tells us it was already pursuing other charges related to a separate crime against Pittman. Both men were already known to law enforcement, in fact, and Tuiasosopo was already in Santa Rita Jail this month on unrelated charges as well.

The third individual arrested, a juvenile, is not being named because of his age.

"Our city was rocked [by this incident],” Jenkins said in a statement. "The individuals responsible for this have a history of committing crime in our city."

As the Chronicle reports, Pittman was involved in a May 2021 incident in which he was allegedly attempting to break into a car in San Francisco, and he was unintentionally shot in the wrist by an undercover SFPD officer who attempting to take him into custody.

Pittman later received an apology from SFPD Chief Bill Scott, and Officer Zachary McAuliffe admitted that the shooting was unintentional.

Scott would not say Thursday whether any more arrests may be made in connection with the June gun battle, and he only said there is "more to investigate," per the Chronicle.

Previously: Two In Custody Following Pier 39 Shootout; Supervisors Say It's a 'Miracle' Bystanders Weren't Seriously Injured

The gigantic vintage modern collective Stuff has been at Valencia Street near Duboce Avenue for 12 years, but has announced a January 31 closure over what the owners say is an untenable rent increase.

When the 17,000-square-foot collectible and antique mall Stuff opened on Valencia Street in 2011, it turned the idea of a vintage store on its head. Store manager Marty Scibilia told the Chronicle last year that the funky, eclectic shop sold “everything from $5 records to a $50,000 vase.” But Scibilia gave the Chronicle that description in a report that Stuff was was going to have to close over a reportedly massive rent increase, and the vintage destination frequented by stars like Jennifer Coolidge, Metallica, and Chris Isaak would be shuttering once its lease expired in 2024.

Fast forward a year from that report, and the problem is not resolved. Late Wednesday, the Chronicle reported that Stuff has announced it’s definitely closing. Store management told the Chron that the landlord demanded Stuff either buy the building, or face a staggering rent increase from $25,000 a month to $75,000 a month.

“Basically, the landlord wants to triple the rent,” Scibilia told the Chronicle Wednesday. “The owners have been looking for a year for a new location anywhere in San Francisco, but the rents are just too high. It’s the same old story.”

The landlord Aralon Properties has a different version of events. A representative for them says they had a deal in place last month for Stuff to buy the building, get a three-year extension on the lease, and have $10,000 monthly rent increases go toward their purchase of the building.

“We had a lease that was ready to be signed,” Aralon representative David Noravian of Beckett Capital told the Chronicle. “The tenant said he would send comments from his attorney and he never did. This deal would have allowed Stuff to stay in the building and purchase it at a fixed price, but we never heard back.”

Either way, the store has put up “Lost Our Lease” banners announcing the closure, and has started a GoFundMe campaign for the staff losing their jobs. Those jobs aren't the only loss, as Stuff is structured as a cooperative where 60 independent dealers lease space to sell items in the store.

Stuff’s liquidation sale is currently underway, and runs until their lease expires on January 31, 2024.

Related: The 11 Best Vintage Stores In San Francisco [SFist]

Image: Bruno R. via Yelp

A decade ago we were cringing in horror over the douchey marketing video for a luxury apartment tower that went up next door to the building we used to call the Twitter Building. Now, it's facing foreclosure.

Remember NEMA? It was the first of what would be a gaggle of high-end rental buildings that sprang up in the last decade in San Francisco, ostensibly helping to ease the housing crisis but only by adding a lot of overpriced, cookie-cutter units to the mix. And it was hard to miss, given its 37 stories and dark-panel glass, on a stretch of Market Street that for decades had been pretty downtrodden.

The building was developed in 2012/2013 by Miami-based Crescent Heights, a major developer nationwide, and as the SF Business Times reports, they refinanced the building in 2019 with a $384 million CMBS (commercial mortgage-backed security) loan.

As of August, the lender transferred the loan to special servicing, per the Business Times. And this month, Trepp, a firm which provides data and analysis on CMBS loans, put out a warning that the building had lost over 50% of its value in the last five years. NEMA is reportedly now valued at $279 million, down 52% from a 2018 valuation of $543.6 million.

It's not clear if this has to do with vacancy in the building, achievable rents, or other factors.

Now, the loan is reportedly in default, due to a failure to pay operating expenses, and that default has triggered several things having to do with the loan, including a reordering of who gets paid back first, the Business Times reports.

We knew over two years ago that NEMA may be in trouble, as Crescent Heights was seeking approval from the city to turn about 200 of its units into corporate-style rentals, in order to fill vacancies.

As the Business Times notes, NEMA sits nearly across the street from 30 Van Ness, a.k.a. Hayes Point, the office and residential building that was branded  Just a year ago, the Australia-based developer of that property was barreling forward and starting construction, but construction on the 47-story building was halted in August.

Previously: Mid-Market's NEMA Seeks City Approval For Corporate Rentals

Photo: Anthony Fomin

The Oakland Roots men’s soccer team and Oakland Soul women’s team have released renderings of their new proposed stadium designs, for if and when they move into their new home next to the Oakland Coliseum.

The Oakland pro soccer team Oakland Roots had traditionally played at Laney College, but this season moved their games to the fields of California State University, East Bay, where they will play next season as well. But both are interim homes, as the team, as well as its women’s soccer counterpart Oakland Soul, have been publicly proclaiming their desires for a soccer stadium next to the Oakland Coliseum.

That’s far from being a reality, but the teams are moving forward with proposals. And to that end, KTVU reports they released renderings of the proposed new stadium, and are asking for public feedback.

The Roots and Soul said in a joint announcement, “This survey represents the latest step in the club’s community engagement process ahead of the construction of Oakland’s first, dedicated pro soccer stadium for the 2025 USL Championship and USL Super League seasons.”

There are a few more renderings on this survey page, which says the “Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul are seeking feedback from fans and the local community to help shape the game day atmosphere and fan experience at the proposed Malibu Lot interim stadium located adjacent to the Oakland Coliseum."

The stadium would be on an unoccupied far corner of the Coliseum site known as the Malibu Lot. The location and plans are explained in the video below, from April.

The Coliseum stadium deal would also be an interim site, and it is nowhere near being approved yet. The clubs have teamed with the African American Sports & Entertainment Group to try to get approval for a temporary stadium on the half of the Oakland Coliseum property owned by the City of Oakland. The African American Sports & Entertainment Group is also trying to get Oakland a WNBA expansion team.

Related: Oakland Seen as Potential Expansion City for Major League Baseball, After A's Departure [SFist]

Image: Oakland Roots

Well, it looks like this major trade conference that is bringing a bunch of world leaders from the Asia-Pacific sphere to San Francisco in a few weeks is going to snarl traffic and cause transit headaches way bigger than Dreamforce ever does.

We should have known that with the biggest gathering of world leaders in SF since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, there would be some major security involved with this thing.

We're now learning that the Secret Service is dictating an elaborate set of street closures, subway and bus interruptions, and the creation of a very large secure perimeter around the Moscone Center that will last for six day in mid-November — from Tuesday, November 14 to Sunday, November 19.

"San Francisco is proud to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in November, one of the largest gatherings of global leaders in San Francisco," says the SFMTA in an announcement. "This is an exciting opportunity for San Francisco to shine on the world stage. Most APEC activities will take place in the South of Market and Nob Hill neighborhoods. Due to the scale of the gathering, APEC may have some impacts on travel in other areas of San Francisco as well."

More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the summit and its ancillary CEO conference, and for those six days, only conference attendees and people who live in the perimeter will be permitted inside the secure zone shown in pink above.

Mission, Howard, and Folsom streets will all be completely impassable between Sixth Street and First Street, and it looks like movement on Harrison will be highly regulated too.

As you can see, Caltrans will also be closing the off-ramps just outside the perimeter, including the I-80 off-ramps onto Fourth Street and Fifth Street.

Additionally, many bus lines will be impacted, including 12-Folsom, 14-Mission, and 30-Stockton, and the T subway line won't run between Moscone Center and Chinatown — but shuttles will run between Union Square and Rose Pak Chinatown stations. The other end of the T line past 4th and Brannan will be served by the former KT line, which will run to Sunnydale.

The Chronicle confirmed the Central Subway news early Wednesday ahead of a press conference about these plans, and spoke to some Chinatown business owners who expect this will hurt their business.

"Instead of celebrating and showcasing the Central Subway to APEC and the world, it’s almost like we’re trying to turn our backs and do the opposite of that,” says David Ho, a consultant for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. "I think it just speaks volumes to their confidence in their own security protocols that they can’t secure the underground."

Chinatown community leaders also say that they met with the SFMTA about the upcoming summit and its impacts on transit, but they walked away without much information — and the SFMTA has been deferring to the Secret Service.

Additionally, another Secret Service secure zone will be set up around the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill, where President Joe Biden — and presumably some other leaders — will be staying. This also happened last month when Biden was in town for a couple of fundraising events.

See the full list of Muni and street impacts during the APEC summit here.

Related: Newsom Gives SFMTA $3 Million to Clean These Damned Streets Before the APEC Summit

Some joker with a tent encampment in the Inner Richmond has posted hand-scrawled signs reading “Free fentanyl 4 new users,” and “Meth for stolen items!” across the street from a school and a church. Oh, and he's a registered sex offender, and he claims he's not joking.

The Inner Richmond corner of Geary Boulevard and Ninth Avenue is home to the Stella Maris Academy, a K-8 Catholic school. Next to that is the Star of the Sea Church, and a block away, the Inner Richmond branch of the SF Public Library.

But Ninth Avenue has also seen a burgeoning encampment problem. And these two matters collide, as the Chronicle reports that an unsheltered guy with an encampment at that corner has posted provocative signs saying “Free fentanyl 4 new users,” and “Meth for stolen items!”

This first bubbled into public awareness when the volunteer trash pick-up organization Refuse Refuse called it out in the above tweet Sunday night. KPIX’s Betty Yu then posted a video of the encampment signs Monday night, video which was quickly swiped and reused by Elon Musk’s blue check brigade. By Wednesday, the Chronicle had gone out and talked to this character, and he claimed he absolutely was handing out fentanyl and trading meth for stolen items.

“It’s not a joke,” the man, Joseph Adam Moore, told the Chronicle. He also taunted the neighbors who complain, saying “I’m like Bugs Bunny, when Elmer Fudd shows up to shoot him in the face with a shotgun.”

And as the Chron notes, Moore is also a registered sex offender. The state sex offender database, which requires you to enter the name before seeing the results, shows Moore has a 1997 conviction for "Lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age."

This has been brought to the attention of the district’s supervisor Connie Chan. Her office said in a statement to the Chronicle that she’s reached out to the district's police station “about the situation which indicat[es] possible drug sales.” Her office added they were working with the SF homeless outreach team to get more services and shelter for people on Ninth Avenue.

The “free fentanyl” sign is pretty brazen, but Moore’s encampment has apparently caused other considerable problems in the past. According to the Chronicle, the encampment once contained a half-dozen residents, who’d spread out all over the sidewalk with “barbecues, a beach umbrella, and even a dune buggy that sat on the pavement.”

Related: Big-Money Tech Group Launches Bizarre Ad Campaign Making Sarcastic Jokes About Fentanyl Crisis [SFist]

Image: @RefuseRefuseSF via Twitter