I thought America was finally over Crocs and had retired them to the fashion morgue along with jelly sandals and day-glo anything. Sensible people everywhere have developed an irrational hatred for them. And the shoe company is totally tanking.
But then last week I started seeing them again. The first time was at SF Playhouse when I went to see The Story with theater critic Chloe Veltman. (A night at the theater deserves something nicer than Crocs, I tells ya!) Then I saw this guy on BART this morning:
Pink Crocs? Holy Christmas. Then I peered closer and got a look at the socks he was wearing with his pink Crocs:
Multi-colored Smart Wool socks with pink Crocs -- a recipe for comfort and for burning the retinas of my eyes. I think this is what Mork from Ork would be wearing if he were still on TV.
are not believed to be the three men responsible for 18 armed and
strong-arm robberies in the Park Merced area between Feb. 4 and March
29. Unless arrested for unrelated crimes, those three men are
ostensibly at large.
The trio of men police allege were responsible for a rash of late-night and early morning San Francisco robberies seem to have violated what we could call Ferris Bueller's First Law: You just can't maintain a low profile when you're zipping around in a red car.
On 7:15 a.m. on Saturday, three men jumped out of a red Volkswagen four-door at Holloway and Denslowe in the early morning hours, knocked over a woman, and stole her purse. The victim's description of the car rang a few bells for the responding officers, who connected it to a 6:54 a.m. ATM robbery not far from Glen Park BART.
Shortly thereafter, police noticed a red Volkswagen heading south on 19th Avenue and Winston. A witness to the Holloway and Denslowe robbery identified the suspects. Swag from both robberies was found within the car -- as were items taken from a man at 6:30 a.m. at 23rd and Noe who was threatened with a handgun and hit over the head with a tire iron.
The busy suspects, who live in Richmond, were arrested on three counts of robbery and conspiracy -- and perhaps more may be coming.
Photo | Dominic
And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamond/
Across a cash crop car lot filled with twilight Coupe De Villes;
Leaving the town in the keeping/
Of the one who is sweeping/
Up the ghosts of Saturday night.
NOTE: Sgt. James O'Malley notes that the three men arrested April 4 are not believed to be the three men responsible for 18 armed and strong-arm robberies in the Park Merced area between Feb. 4 and March 29. Unless arrested for unrelated crimes, those three men are ostensibly at large.
