Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/12/two-san-francisco-nudists-save-man-from-being-attacked-in-street-by-a-crazy-kind-of-pirate-guywith-a-blowtorch.html
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Dr. Manhattan was ahead of his time.
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I imagine nude vigilantes do provide some element of confusion and surprise for the perpetrators.
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The neighborhood is known for being very accepting, but it still may be a less-than-ideal place to be a nude vigilante most of the time due to the local weather. Even right now while the rest of the state and country are going through significant heat waves the highest temperatures there are only reaching the 60s. So tolerable but probably not ideal for most people.
Then again, leading a life of action can probably keep you reasonably warm.
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How far we’ve come, since the days when people complained about nipples on the batsuit.
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Is SF on the rebound?
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Perfect San Francisco headline. Love that city!
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Well, even in my D&D campaign, the players went after the obvious Chaos knight in stereotypical black spiky armor before the naked dude among the mooks.
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From what I’ve been told, “Have officials actually try to enforce laws when not doing so harms people” seems like a good place to start before moving on to vigilante reliance.
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Why do the names of all protagonists in this story sound like characters from a young adult novel?
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What does “enforcing the laws” look like in this instance, though? It sounds like the cops might actually not be to blame for the situation, as, per one of the linked articles, they’ve already arrested him many times for assault in the past and he’s been cycling through the court system for years. So it’s a bad situation and the options are few, at least until we can transform our prison system from one based on punishment into something new that’s really effective at rehabilitation and mental health treatment. (Probably can’t wait that long with this guy.) I’m guessing that the guy has mental issues so maybe some kind of mental health conservatorship is the best available option to keep people safe, but make no mistake- that’s basically just the modern, polite term for what they used to call locking people up in an insane asylum.
https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/probate-court/mental-health-conservatorship
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The best part about The Standard article (mentioned here but not linked) is the glamorous photos taken of the nude hero, like he had been waiting all his life for his pinup shots to make it in the local news site.
Oh we are so back.
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“San Francisco is a crime-ridden hellhole because police aren’t allowed to enforce laws anymore” has become an oft-used talking point by Republican haters but it’s not really the case. There’s never been any policy discouraging police from arresting folks for acts of violence. The city’s biggest problems mostly stem from gross wealth inequality excaberated by the last couple of tech booms.
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Double-kudos to the Naked Avenger as far as I’m concerned.
Even were I to possess a right-hook capable of incapacitating yon villain in short measure, I’d be wearing fucking trousers, because fucking blowtorch.
Sheesh, you wouldn’t catch me waving me bits near a ruddy candle.
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“It looks like the un-costumed crime fighters got here first.”
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At least on TV sufficiently little costume is a costume in itself. Not sure if that’s more generally applicable.
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And if there is a policy, it’s been a policy since the late 80s. Was in a bar in Lower Haight in 1988 when a gentleman walked in and the Elvis bartender immediately yelled at him “to get the fuck out” and locked the door. The guy went beserk and started trashing cars outside the bar (thank dog, we walked to the bar from my friend’s apt). Cops were called, but we never saw them. Dude just walked away.
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Thank you for not using the term “cold-cocked”.
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