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SAN FRANCISCO TO DESIGNATE CELL PHONE LANES FOR PEDESTRIANS

imageSan Francisco, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – In San Francisco, the street lanes are painted red to indicate they’re only for buses and taxis. Green lanes are for bikes only. And rainbow-colored crosswalks are reserved for gay men and women in the Castro.

Now, the City and County of San Francisco is all set to establish cell phone-only lanes for pedestrians who are texting or talking on their cell phones while walking.

Mayor Ed Lee says the move will help reduce the growing number of injuries and deaths resulting from cell phone use while walking. “This will definitely eliminate the chances of pedestrians running into electric posts, fire hydrants and into other pedestrians ” he said.

Lee
Lee

San Francisco is the first U.S. city to establish cell phone lanes. Similar lanes have been set up in China.

Using the desginated cell phone lanes while NOT texting or calling carries with it a $250 fine.

 

PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS IN WEST HOLLYWOOD TRACED TO RAINBOW-COLORED CROSSWALKS

Rainbow-colored pedestrian crosswalk on Santa Monica and San Vicente Boulevards in West Hollywood
Rainbow-colored pedestrian crosswalk on Santa Monica and San Vicente Boulevards in West Hollywood

West Hollywood, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – In just the last 15 months, four pedestrians crossing the streets of West Hollywood have reportedly been killed — all of whom were hit by motorists.

In addition to the deaths, several people have been injured, including a man hit by a car early Tuesday just steps away from popular gay establishments like the Abbey and P.U.M.P. Lounge.  He is the third persons hit by a car on Santa Monica Boulevard since June this year.

West Hollywood Police investigating the rising number of pedestrian accidents said that all cases seem to point to road rage and that all perpetrators were homophobic drivers.

One of the perpetrators, a West Hollywood resident,  told police he is outraged at the shameless display of homosexuality in his neighborhood, particularly the painting of crosswalks in rainbow colors. “Not all of us who live in West Hollywood are homosexual,” the man said,” so why do they have to flaunt their gay-ness when it does not represent all of us in the neighborhood?”

Crosswalks in San Francisco’s gay Castro district are also scheduled to be painted in rainbow colors and residents are weary that it could lead to hate-related pedestrian accidents similar to those in  West Hollywood.

 

RARE ROOSTERFISH DISCOVERED IN ARKANSAS

imageLittle Rock, Arkansas (The Adobo Chronicles) – Nemastistius pectoralis or the roosterfish, is a game fish found in the warm waters of the East Pacific, from Baja California to Peru. It is distinguished by its “rooster comb,” seven long spines of the dorsal fin.

But a new discovery in Little Rock, Arkansas has revealed what appears to be a more authentic species of the rare fish. It gives justice to the name roosterfish. Its body is unmistakably that of a fish but its head is a miniature version of a rooster.

The more common roosterfish
The more common roosterfish

What puzzles marine biologists is that the roosterfish is usually found in the ocean, but the newly-discovered species was found in the Arkansas River.

Now, the state of Arkansas will be known for two great things: Bill Clinton and roosterfish.