A San Francisco burglar died after getting stuck between buildings, police say
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The burglar s death is being investigated by the city’s chief medical examiner.Mark Winema / Getty Images / Mark Wineman / Getty Images
A San Francisco burglary suspect died after getting stuck between two buildings, police say.
Officials arrived at the 2600 block of Hyde Street after reports that the man, who was identified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as Frank Madrid, was jumping from rooftop to rooftop late Tuesday night at the intersection of Hyde and Bay streets.
Police eventually lost track of Madrid, a 50-year-old San Francisco resident, but found “evidence of forced entry into a residential building,” per a police statement. They did not provide further comment to SFGATE.
An interview with SF comic Alexis Gay, who made the viral video about park hangouts
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San Francisco-based comedian Alexis Gay poked fun at park hangouts during the COVID-19 pandemic in a viral video posted on Twitter. Courtesy Alexis GayShow MoreShow Less
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San Francisco-based comedian Alexis Gay poked fun at park hangouts during the COVID-19 pandemic in a viral video posted on Twitter.Courtesy Alexis GayShow MoreShow Less
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San Francisco-based comedian Alexis Gay poked fun at park hangouts during the COVID-19 pandemic in a viral video posted on Twitter. Courtesy Alexis GayShow MoreShow Less
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A San Francisco comedian posted a video in social media Tuesday poking fun at the socially distanced park hangouts that have become ubiquitous among certain San Francisco residents (think Souvla-loving, Allbirds-wearing tech workers) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Salesforce cancels huge downtown office lease in SF
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File photo of the Salesforce Transit Center nearby the tower planned for 542-550 Howard St.MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images/MediaNews Group via Getty Images
Salesforce, the city’s largest private employer, has canceled its 325,000-square-foot lease at the unbuilt Parcel F tower in San Francisco’s Transbay neighborhood, as first reported by the San Francisco Business Times.
The company announced in February that more than half of its workforce will continue working remotely or on a flexible schedule after the pandemic is over. It is also subleasing part of its offices at 350 Mission St., according to the San Francisco Chronicle. (SFGATE and The San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)
When Disneyland reopens, it s going to have even more of a privilege problem
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Guests stop to take a selfie at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort on July 11, 2020, the day the park reopened.Courtesy of Walt Disney World
At the best of times before the pandemic, Disneyland was hard to afford. Even if you lived near the park and could snag the most affordable entry the Southern California Resident Ticket, a limited three-day pass offered every spring that worked out to just over $66 per day there were still enormous costs once you arrived on Disneyland Drive, from the $25 parking to the $4 bottles of water to the $6.99 churros that are essentially flour and cinnamon sugar but are all-but-impossible to resist.
Here s how many vaccine doses California says it s wasting
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Syringes filled with the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine are displayed on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Poly Pomona University in Pomona, California on February 5, 2021. - The Cal Poly Pomona site is one of two opening in California, with the other located at Moscone Center in San Francisco. According to organizers each site will ultimately have the capacity to administer up to 10,000 vaccine doses per day.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
As California s COVID-19 vaccine rollout presses forward, stories of accidentally wasted doses are growing. Tales of trashed, spoiled, thawed and expired vaccines are spreading through social media and by word of mouth, and some incidents are confirmed and reported on in the news.