<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[letter - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]></title><description><![CDATA[SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/</link><image><url>https://sfist.com/favicon.png</url><title>letter - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, &amp; Sports</title><link>https://sfist.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 2.12</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:58:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sfist.com/letter/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Johannes Mehserle's Public Apology Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/09/BAQB1EC3T3.DTL&tsp=1">letter of apology</a> (<a href="http://cdn.sfgate.com/c/acrobat/2010/07/09/mehserlestatement.pdf?t...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2010/07/09/johannes_mehserles_public_apology_l/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24342544ad066cdcfaecb3</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[bart cop]]></category><category><![CDATA[johannes Mehserle]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[mehserle verdict]]></category><category><![CDATA[oscar grant]]></category><category><![CDATA[public apology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:00:32 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2010/07/mehserlesletter-thumb-640xauto-526932.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2010/07/mehserlesletter-thumb-640xauto-526932.jpg" alt="Johannes Mehserle's Public Apology Letter"><p></p>

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Here's the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/09/BAQB1EC3T3.DTL&amp;tsp=1">letter of apology</a> (<a href="http://cdn.sfgate.com/c/acrobat/2010/07/09/mehserlestatement.pdf?tsp=1">.pdf</a>) from Johannes Mehserle, the BART police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of <a href="http://sfist.com/tags/oscargrant">Oscar Grant</a>, written on Sunday, July 4, days before the <a href="http://bit.ly/9g2qB9">verdict</a> was announced. Here it is in its entirety:</p>

<blockquote>7-4-2010

<p>Mike -</p>

<p>Please try to get this message to the public:</p>

<p>------------------------------</p>

<p>I don't know what the jury in this case is going to decide, but I hope those who hate me and those who understand that I never intended to shoot Oscar Grant will listen to this message.</p>

<p><strong>I have and will continue to live everyday of my life knowing that Mr. Grant should not have been shot. I know a daughter has lost a father and a mother has lost a son. It saddens me knowing that my actions cost Mr. Grant his life, no words express how truly sorry I am.</strong></p>

<p>I hoped to talk to Ms. Johnson (Wanda Johnson, Grant's mother) and Ms. Mesa (Sophina Mesa, Grant's girlfriend and the mother of his daughter) in the days following this terrible event, but death threats toward my newly-born son, my friends and family resulted in no communication occurring. I hope the day will come when anger will give way to dialogue.</p>
</blockquote>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kezar Pub Owner Chides Tagger/Lakers Fan With Taunting Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oh wow. We are starting to enjoy the <a href="http://www.sfist.com/2009/09/07/angry_camp_letter_incites_taggers.php">angry</a> <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/09/clarion_alley_taggers_respond.php">m...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/09/15/kezar_pub_owner_chides_taggerlakers/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24260144ad066cdcf3aca5</guid><category><![CDATA[misc]]></category><category><![CDATA[haight]]></category><category><![CDATA[kezar pub]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[tagging]]></category><category><![CDATA[vandalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:01:26 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/09/lakers_play_basketball-thumb-640xauto-440149.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/09/lakers_play_basketball-thumb-640xauto-440149.jpg" alt="Kezar Pub Owner Chides Tagger/Lakers Fan With Taunting Letter"><p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">  </span></p>

<p>Oh wow. We are starting to enjoy the <a href="http://www.sfist.com/2009/09/07/angry_camp_letter_incites_taggers.php">angry</a> <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/09/clarion_alley_taggers_respond.php">missives</a> written in response artistic license of taggers. Take, for example, the owner of <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/kezar-pub-and-restaurant-san-francisco">Kezar Pub</a> in the Haight. (Which is a fantastic sports bar, by the way.) It seems a Lakers fan went into the can and tagged the bar's mirror, presumably with pro-Lakers propaganda. </p>

<p>Above is how the owner responded to the tagger's whim. (Bonus points for using a small font size to equate a below average penis. Well played, Kezar.)</p>

<p>[via the sublime Paolo at Eater]</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ABC 7's Dan Noyes Receives Murder-Suicide Note]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, if you recall, <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/14/oakland_nursing_home_plays_host_to.php">SFist told you</a> about 64-year-old Yvette Harden, the East Bay women who "fatally shot her hand...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/09/15/abc_7s_dan_noyes_receives_murder-su/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24232e44ad066cdcf23314</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Noyes]]></category><category><![CDATA[east bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[livermore]]></category><category><![CDATA[murder-suicide]]></category><category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:02:06 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/09/murder_suicide_letter-thumb-640xauto-440064.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/09/murder_suicide_letter-thumb-640xauto-440064.jpg" alt="ABC 7's Dan Noyes Receives Murder-Suicide Note"><p></p>

<p>Yesterday, if you recall, <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/14/oakland_nursing_home_plays_host_to.php">SFist told you</a> about 64-year-old Yvette Harden, the East Bay women who "fatally shot her handicapped daughter at an East Oakland skilled nursing facility Sunday night then killed herself with the same gun." </p>

<p>At first, no suicide note was found at the scene to explain why Harden did what she did.</p>

<p>This morning, however, SFist received an email from ABC 7's Dan Noyes, telling us that he had received an letter "marked 'urgent' from a viewer in Livermore." The piece of mail was from Harden; it was her suicide note, sent to Noyes a few days before the murder-suicide.</p>

<p>Noyes <a href="http://iteamblog.abc7news.com/2009/09/mothers-murdersuicide-letter-to-iteam.html">details what was in the letter</a>. Here's a piece of Harden's reason:</p>

<blockquote>For five pages, Diana Harden described the fifteen-year ordeal she and her daughter endured.  Yvette Harden became a quadriplegic and suffered brain injuries in a car accident when she was 28.  Her mother admitted she was a difficult patient, but says nursing home workers abused her.  Yvette bounced from one nursing home to the next; Diana tried to bring her home and care for her, but the job proved to be too difficult.  She finally sent her to Oakland Springs Health Center on 10th Avenue. 

<p>Yvette lived there for six years, but Diana wrote that her daughter suffered abuse -- the nurses "tell her she's 'a fat pig' and that they 'hate taking care of her' and they wash her in the shower 'like a car, real hard', then they turn the cold water on to punish her.  When she screams, they turn it back before the charge nurse can get there."</p>
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<p>We asked Noyes what he felt when he connected his letter with the murder-suicide. He tells us:</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clarion Alley Taggers Respond]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, we posted <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/07/angry_camp_letter_incites_taggers.php">this angry letter</a> written by mural artists, directed at, if you will, graffiti artists. We asked if...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/09/09/clarion_alley_taggers_respond/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24266344ad066cdcf3e2dd</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarion Alley]]></category><category><![CDATA[graffiti]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[street_art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:10:06 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/09/camptaggersresponse-thumb-640xauto-438448.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/09/camptaggersresponse-thumb-640xauto-438448.jpg" alt="Clarion Alley Taggers Respond"><p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">  </span></p>

<p>On Monday, we posted <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/07/angry_camp_letter_incites_taggers.php">this angry letter</a> written by mural artists, directed at, if you will, graffiti artists. We asked if said letter would incite the rapscallion taggers even further with their controversial scribblings. </p>

<p>As the luxurious <s>Allan Hough</s> Kevin Montgomery of Mission Mission <a href="http://missionmission.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/bitch-ass-taggers-respond/">points out</a>, we were right.</p>

<p>And with that, the battle for Clarion Alley marches on. Your move, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-CA/Clarion-Alley-Mural-Project/127102311571">CAMP</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perturbed Windshield Note Will Make You Swoon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Found over at 23rd and Guerrero in the <a href="http://sfist.com/tags/mission">Mission</a> district, <a href="http://sfist.com/profile/sfist_cedric/posts">SFist Cedric</a> found the above love letter ...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/07/31/car_windshield_note_will_make_you_s/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24336d44ad066cdcfa9067</guid><category><![CDATA[misc]]></category><category><![CDATA[humor]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mission District]]></category><category><![CDATA[parking]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:55:46 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/07/angry_windshield_message-thumb-640xauto-427907.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/07/angry_windshield_message-thumb-640xauto-427907.jpg" alt="Perturbed Windshield Note Will Make You Swoon"><p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">  </span></p>

<p>Found over at 23rd and Guerrero in the <a href="http://sfist.com/tags/mission">Mission</a> district, <a href="http://sfist.com/profile/sfist_cedric/posts">SFist Cedric</a> found the above love letter stuck on his windshield. He explains,  "I found a spot that was literally three inches longer than my car. And this is the congratulation I get for managing to fit in."</p>

<p>Makes you tingle a bit, doesn't it?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canine Fecal Matter Letter of Anguish, Glen Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shit happens. Even on the up-and-coming Chenery Street in Glen Park.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/12/05/canine_fecal_matter_letter_of_angui/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242a9d44ad066cdcf609ea</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[dog poop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glen Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:08:35 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2008/12/entry196469_thumb-thumb-640xauto-41972.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2008/12/entry196469_thumb-thumb-640xauto-41972.jpg" alt="Canine Fecal Matter Letter of Anguish, Glen Park"><p>Shit happens. Even on the up-and-coming Chenery Street in Glen Park.</p>

<p>First of all, nice semicolon placement, angry poop hater. And second, why can't dog walkers put their vile plastic bags of fecal matter into any trash can that's on the street? We do.</p>

<p>(Sent to us by <a href="http://missionmission.wordpress.com/">Mission Mission's Allan Hough</a>.)</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prop 8 Weirdos Send Weird Letter Containing Weirdness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is this a threatening letter? Well ... kind of, we guess. It sure looks like it's ? That's a tough call. Whoever wrote it seems to have lacked the competence necessary to actually instill fear.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/10/24/yeson8_weirdos_send_weird_letter_co/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242c0344ad066cdcf6c03e</guid><category><![CDATA[misc]]></category><category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[election]]></category><category><![CDATA[equality]]></category><category><![CDATA[gay]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category><category><![CDATA[no on 8]]></category><category><![CDATA[prop 8]]></category><category><![CDATA[protection racket]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Baume]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:04:23 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here's what happened:</p>

<p>Abbot &amp; Associates, a realty company in San Diego, gave a generous chunk of change to the <a href="http://noonprop8.com">No On 8</a> campaign. <a href="https://secure.ga4.org/01/equalityforall">(You should, too.)</a> And then the Yes On 8 campaign wrote them a letter that is just freaking KA-RAZEE, demanding that Abbot &amp; Associates .</p>

<blockquote>"We respectfully request that Abbott &amp; Associates withdraw its support of Equality California. Make a donation of a like amount to ProtectMarriage.com which will help us correct this error ... The names of any companies and organizations that choose not to donate in like manner to ProtectMarriage.com but have given to Equality California will be published. ... We will contact you shortly to discuss your contribution."</blockquote>

<p>Wha wha whaaaa? Seriously? <a href="http://www.noonprop8.com/articles/2008/10/23/prop-8-campaign-threatens-business-leaders">Check out the letter here.</a> It's like something a <a href="http://www.leepresson.com/slang/gslang.html">mobster</a> would insinuate. "Jimmy the Toe's gonna pay you a little visit in an unmarked van to have a little chat, vis-a-vis your making glad with the greenbacks." And indeed, Jim Abbott's son described it as <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/state/n145556D05.DTL&amp;tsp=1">"a bit 'mafioso.'"</a></p>

<p>Except that instead of threatening to put anyone on ice, they're threatening to "publish." No! No! Anything but <i>publish</i>! Indeed, charitable giving has become the Most Dangerous Game.</p>

<p><i>Disclosure! SFist_Matt is hard at work on a project to <a href="http://stop8.org">stop prop 8.</a></i></p><i>take back their donation and give it to the other side</i>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFist Finds: Address Unknown]]></title><description><![CDATA[<em>Submit your <a href="http://sfist.com/found">Bay Area</a> <a href="http://www.foundmagazine.com">finds</a> to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them <a href="http://www.flickr.com/tags/sfist">sfis...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2007/08/29/sfist_finds_add/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2422fa44ad066cdcf2175e</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flickr]]></category><category><![CDATA[found]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leanne Maxwell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:55:51 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry121895_thumb-thumb-640xauto-83746.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry121895_thumb-thumb-640xauto-83746.jpg" alt="SFist Finds: Address Unknown"><p>This doozy was found by friend of SFist Juliet in her office building a couple of years ago. The letter had an incorrect address and had gone up and down between floors of the building for quite some time, until Juliet gave in to her curiosity and opened it up. Boy, are we glad she did! </p>

<p><em>Read our transcript, plus the chilling second half, after the jump!</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFist Finds: Respect]]></title><description><![CDATA[<em>Send your <a href="http://www.sfist.com/found/2007/06/">Bay Area</a> <a href="http://www.foundmagazine.com">finds</a> to found @ sfist.com or tag them as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2007/06/25/sfist_finds_res/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242d7744ad066cdcf7835a</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flickr]]></category><category><![CDATA[found]]></category><category><![CDATA[letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[photos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leanne Maxwell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:51:31 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry112925_thumb-thumb-640xauto-91325.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry112925_thumb-thumb-640xauto-91325.jpg" alt="SFist Finds: Respect"><p>We found this sad note a couple of years ago near 24th &amp; Bryant. We wish we could find this person and give them a hug. </p>

<blockquote>God Can you please help me with this person that's disrespect me. Some how help him to have some respect for me. I'm unhappy the way he talks to me. I don't like it. I've talke to him but he don't understand. Something is wrong.</blockquote>

<p><em>See the reverse side after the jump.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>