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The Halloween recap is coming.


But I have recevied some e-mail regarding the shootings in the Castro last night and wanted to address that quickly. Last night was the most managed and sane Halloween I've seen in the Castro. However, considering the shooting, that's kind of like saying, "Well other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

I saw/experienced no violence this year, and didn't even know there had been an incident until I heard it on the radio this morning. We entered the fete from the top of 19th and spent all our time in or around Moby Dick and exited on the downhill side of 18th, so we were no where near the spot where shots were fired. We had also left around 10:15/10:30 so we were removed in time as well as space.

I did end up at back at Jeff's for a little while around midnight, which is just a around the corner from the shooting. There were cops everywhere all night, so seeing a bunch of cops on that corner looked just like the rest of the event and not out of the ordinary.

Basically, it was a great night with a highly visible police presence that still ended with some bridge-and-tunnel teenage losers mouthing off at each other and getting violent. The clear majority of everyone else was there in costume and there to have a good time. These fuck-ups not only wounded ten people, they may have ruined future Halloweens for tens of thousands.

The San Francisco Chronicle has the story: Two in custody after 10 people are shot at Castro Halloween bash