HAPPY NEW YEAR !! What a start to 2009

Hello, and HAPPY NEW YEAR ... hope everyone have a safe and happy year that we are about 10 days into.

One of the big local thing that happened on new years day was the BART shooting .... oh wellz .... don't want to add any biased information there ... but really ...... i could understand the added stress on New Year's Day for the police ... but it was not justified at all for the action to happen ..... and that's my 0.02 ..... since the media had blown it out of proportions already ... don't really wanna make it even more controversial than it already is.

Anyways ..... my little experience with the BART police was also on New Year's Eve/ Day ..... we were lucky enough to be able to walk to Montgomery station and ditch the crowd after the countdown, and got on the train before everyone else. Then of course, it was delayed a little bit because of some stupid kids fighting on the platform in embarcadero. When we got there, these teens got onto the train .... our friends and my girl and I were more towards to middle of the car when they got to one side of the door. Maybe they were high on something, but it's totally unacceptable that they started smoking in the train .... the smoke got to everybody on the train and started to make some people totally pissed .... and we are like ..... go on stupid kids ..... u can go ahead and take your time ... we will see what will happen once it got to the next station .... then it got up to the next station ..... and surely some police were there ...... they were looking for something or someone, maybe the smoker? we tried to point them to those teens' direction, they walked and tried to look for them a couple times ... and then they gave up, and let the train go .... WTF ...... do you need us to take you by hand to show you who broke the law and such ...... you know ..... i started to understand why people want citizen oversight in their department .... this was totally ridiculous ...... we ended up had to take up the smoke again until we got off the train about 20 minutes later ..... and had to have our friends drive us to fremont ..... because it was so hard to take up ...... i swear .... no more SF new year count down ..... esp. when we need to take BART with STUPID ASS SMOKING TEENS .....