An e-mail on that San Francisco mega hit-and-run:

I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Bush Street is a major street through the city, as is Pine where some of the incidents occurred (they are adjacent, parallel one-way streets, so it sounds like he was going up one and down the other). Until recently, I lived very close to where all of this happened—got out just in time!On a similar note, I did think it was somewhat amusing during the early days of the Iraq war when the anti-war protestors would stage sit-ins in the middle of Bush and Powell Streets, two intersecting streets in the Financial District/Chinatown.