Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Law & Order / Public Transit
Rolanda Jones, Accused of Pepper Spray Attack on Muni, In Court
Posted
By Joe Eskenazi
on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:30 AM
Rolanda Jones, the woman accused of introducing the one horrible liquid no one yet associates with Muni onto a bus --
pepper spray -- will be in court this morning. Wonder how she'll get there?
Jones was arraigned on Oct. 4 for "unlawful use of pepper spray battery." Her story, it seems, is that when you say you're sorry, you ought to mean it. Or else.
Jones is charged with bumping into a fellow patron on a bus. She demanded an apology -- and got it. But she sprayed her fellow patron with pepper spray regardless, later claiming the apology was not sincere enough. And, according to the district attorney's office, Jones was "having a bad day."
If everyone having a bad day on Muni felt inclined to whip out the pepper spray, the system would soon be inundated. Entrepreneurs would invent vehicles that run on pepper spray.
In the meantime entrepreneurs will have to focus on the needs of Muni riders in the here and now. Like -- Muni Goggles.
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About The Author
Joe Eskenazi
Bio:
Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
"Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
