San Francisco Marina District
Pierce Street Annex
Bar
April 21, 1984 1:45 AM
Thirteen Years after King Solomon's Gate
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"All right, All right, Jeezz your a pain in the ass
sometimes. There's all kind of women here, why do you want to go all the way
across town at 2:00... the bar is going to be closed by the time we get there
anyway". He was insistent and I was starting to suddenly feel pretty down and
drunk. Things hadn't been going very well. This was starting to look like a four
year run into nowhere. Venture capitol star of the Montana oil patch to dead end
in a Moving Van. I kinda snickered at myself. Jeez, I had even debased myself in
front of a former enemy, unbelievable. I had actually forgotten how bovine it
was to watch Q. Todd Dickinson (as in son of the Devil) gloat. In all the
years of our political and
social competition at college, it had been a fortuitously rare sight.
Now he
was on his way up... Up all the way to the edges of "Accident Bill" Clinton's cabinet as things turned out.
Somehow my grand proposal to build an e-bay in every 7-11
must have found its way to his desk. An obviously gay
Lawrence Expressway Venture Cap just south of Palo Alto had surprised me out of the blue by saying he was
interested in meeting about the proposal. He was now a venture capitol lawyer apparently
(NOT - Chevron Oil).
The meeting had consisted of Todd icily staring at me as he drummed his fingers on the Desk. Nearly the only words he spoke in those minutes were that he "had no interest whatsoever". It left me puzzled as to the purpose of the meeting. It certainly didn't feel like he missed me and desired my charming company. The meeting had been rather cold and odd to say the least. Why had he bothered if he had no interest?
Fagan nudged my arm again, I spun around at him and blurted out, "Yea and I was just talking to two gorgeous chicks before you blew it". He had rudely and very purposely blown off two very interesting women I was talking with. "They were law students for crying out loud", I said. "Sit down its too damned late, it will be closed by the time we get there". "What's this anyway, our third time back here"?
I was a little peeved. Besides I was starting to feel staggering. I was probably going to sit on a sidewalk or walk down by the boats long before I went anywhere. Still, I didn't want to be too hard on him. He was the only friend I had in San Francisco. ...and the sob had just blown my shot at a second. I was dismal. I wanted to be back in the cabin in the Redwoods at the hostel in Saratoga brushing luxurious golden hair with a gentle rain on the roof and the sweet smell of wet Redwoods filling my nostrils. "God I am stupid sometimes when you offer me gifts the likes of her company" ...I silently thought to myself as I did my best imitation of a Jewish gesture with my right hand. I deserved to be stuck with this ugly Rhode Island heavy metal, needle starter level, dressed down rodeo clown with the speech impediment. The guy made me laugh, especially his outlandish driving. He kept claiming he'd ridden the bike all the way from Rhode Island, and every time he said it, I looked at him and just sort of smiled and thought to myself "How the hell did he make it".
Somehow Fagan got me on to the sidewalk, its all in a big hurry and a blur. His voice keeps insisting "the other bars going to close", "the other bars going to close", "Hurry", "Hurry", "Come on... we can make it". He escorts me by the elbow toward the bike parked on the sidewalk. Fagan inexplicably waves at a cab driving by (very slowly) in the street to move on. The cab drives,... on as instructed,... and pulls over to the right about a hundred feet up the road. "Man that guy is everywhere", I said out loud.... I had seen the same cab driver several times that night around the city, later I would realize near each of the close calls of the evening. (VP of Yellow Cab - i.e. "Parking").
Fagan hops on the bike first. "Now wait a minute... we had agreed when we left the hotel that I would drive". The argument ensues. "Besides, the drivers out here are crazy. They're unbelievable, They are just plain bad. Dangerous. Not only that but You can't drive for shit". I had saved his butt ...not once ...but twice tonight, and on that last one the incredible stupid SOB had thrown his weight the wrong way and very nearly clocked us both.
I tried to point all this out during the short argument, but, finally, I wind up on the back because I was suddenly too drunk, but I had been driving the rest of the night with no problem at all.
And its a blur of motion,... a racing start too fast and the cab pulls out as we leave. Fagan swerves around it. One close call already. By mid block I say screw it and wrap my arms around his waste. He goes freaky on me grabbing at my hand, then bending my forefinger back forcing me to let go and grab the strap at the bottom of the seat between my legs. I was shocked at the rudeness of it. The bike slows to 10 as he gets my arms off his waist, (Examine Accident Dynamics) the bike staggers, then he's off like a rocket again. I start screaming at him to slow down. I start to throw my weight back and forth to wag the motorcycle. "There's a car back on the right I hope this idiot sees it",...I thought as I apply more pressure. "Slow down" I scream again. It'll be a reasonable ride... or I'll just as soon meet the pavement right now. The Cab overtakes us over my right shoulder as Fagan drops the speed of the bike to avoid me flipping us, the cab drops far back. Fagan relented a little more, down to about thirty from fifty for the last half block, delaying our arrival at the appointed spot by several seconds, then with a roar, he speeds up again with a burst ...as we sail over the hump, and I am hurled into the path of the waiting tow truck (breaking my back and Jaw in 4 places)...I feel my body start to rise and the bike forcibly shift to the right underneath me propelled by Fagan's Leap off the bike and his barrel role toward the Manhole cover ( Police Report). It is falling away from me, between my legs as my body rises. I feel the edge of the Bikes seat hitting hard against the inside of my right leg [leaving a nasty bruise], the seats square edge impacting above the knee and down across the inside of the kneecap and then the film stops. Blank. Darkness. Then a voice floats in "You've been in an accident", "Do you understand", "You've been in an accident", "Do you understand". Vague memories float back over the years of two people standing over me watching me writhe and spit blood.
To fully understand these events you need to carefully examine the dynamics of the accident and the police reports and transcripts (below). The single most important fact of the accident itself is that the driver (Fagan) leapt from the motorcycle BEFORE the impact landing near the manhole cover, and the passenger (me) and the bike were propelled into the tow trucks path. The Bike is damaged !!!!!!ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOT ON THE LEFT SIDE !!!!!!. The tow truck driver (Klimper) quits his job immediately after the accident and moves from his slum SRO shared motel room into a "Large well maintained estate". Two independent key witnesses who were perfectly positioned to see everything, are rudely excluded from telling what they saw and never identified. They depart proclaiming to any who will listen "Yea we know what time it is". A key witness, Robert Milne, a Vice President of a Taxi company dealing extensively with Dickinson's parking commission, lies about key facts of the accident and is seen during the preceding two other near accidents that very night. Milne exhibits a strong active interest in the trial following the accident for an uninvolved party arriving at a random accident. He actively tries to discredit all other witnesses. Police bias raises suspicions in the defense of a Police/ABC Towing connection. Insurance company pre existing investigations into Milne are known to exist but details are unavailable. Milne's secret passenger is sent from the scene and never identified. Two police officers appear immediately on the scene but are unlisted in the records. A radiator hose blows on the unknown squad car at a unusual time (after its stopped for several minutes) creating confusion while the victim (me) is "tended to". Activities are then further interrupted, perhaps fortuitously, by the arrival of a city bus. The tow truck is described as driving unusually leading up the the accident as if timing itself to the lights, and exhibits anticipatory behavior at the accidents intersection. Milne's cab drives in synch with the bike in the blocks preceding the accident. (Communications?). John Fiske Brown Associates (Forensic Engineers) smells a rat.
Todd Dickinson - College rival -Chair of the San Francisco Parking Authority Patent Commissioner under Clinton 1998. Twice defeated for Allegheny College Student Body President by me in 1972 and again in 1973. Dickinson's Homosexuality forced him to hide from the 1970's era social repression while competing for Big Man On Campus. The "With a Little..." (...Pause?... Laugh?) comments to this specialized audience of intimate friends, resembles prior Allegheny scuttlebutt and may have provided further motivation to Dickinson's puzzling persistent jealousy. (The "Mohammed Atta" effect?)
Robert Milne
Key Player. He was driving along side on the right in
nearly exact speed synch with the motorcycle as it speed up and slowed
down. His mystery passengerr is for some reason NEVER identified. I
saw Milne twice that night in different parts of the city in addition to
seeing him when Fagan swerved to avoid him just before the accident. Why a VP of
a cab company would be driving a cab on Saturday night, and also why a driver
would voluntarily blow off the bar rush (half the nights income) to become a
witness for strangers has never been explained.
Robert Emmet Fagan
Instant Best
Friend, Former rodeo barrel clown
. He reported No Memory of the
accident but also No Head Injury was reported. Fagan magically kept running into
me as we rode our bikes around downtown San Francisco in the weeks before the
accident, (usually near the Liberty Hotel where I was staying) and then later
became a regular at the Noe Valley bar (Finnegans Wake) that I had been
frequenting.
Larry James Klimper
Drivers License C3424569
Employee ABC Towing Company
2nd addr: 1038 Plymouth
Tow Truck Driver who
goes from shared Single Room Occupancy in tenderloin to unemployed tow truck
driver following the "accident" to living in a "Large Well Maintained Estate"
following "accident".
Scotty Hamilton -Witness- 564 Grove Street San Francisco California
Lucy A James Investigations / 415-553-1145 John Hen 2002
Robert Pitti and Rose Longoria -Witness -1041 Liberty
Street El Cerrito, Ca
Kent Russell esq. Russell and Russell 3169 Washington
St San Francisco, Ca 94115
2299 SUTTER ST SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115-3109 (415)
929-8301
Fagan correctly testified we had four beers each over
the several hours we were bombing back and forth in search of destiny between a
half dozen different bars. However, he lied when he said I had been drinking
before that. He called then picked me up at the Lafayette that night about 11,
saying it would cheer me up and get me out of the room and he'd buy the beers.
He did, and as a consequence controlled the schedule of the evening as well. The
evening was a series of one quickly gulped beer then a drive across town to
another bar always at
Fagan's insistence. The trips were one close call after
another. I remember stumbling as I approached the Bike to argue with
Fagan, but given the consumption that night should not have been drunk. We
argued about who would drive when he picked me up, and I told him forget it, I
was going up to bed rather than ride with him, that settled it, with me driving
for the first few passes back and forth between the bars. One one
occasion, the day before I sold my bike, I pulled out of an alley and
gunned it down the street near the Lafayette. As I to got up to about 45, this
car pulled a fast Uie out of a parking space right into my path, forcing me to
lay the bike down and ride it (sitting/laying on top, burning my thigh on the
engine) to avoid an impact, and succeeded in lessening it. I met, but do
not yet clearly recall the portly individual. The damage on the side of the bike
forced me to take less than the price I had already set with the musician in San
Jose who bought it the next day. Those first driving experiences my first time
in "Frisco", started my long, intense dislike of the city. Randomly (?) meeting
a 20ish guy with Spiderman tattoos, and getting severely poisoned a few weeks
before, didn't improve my impressions. The first real incident the night of the
accident, the second time we left the bar, was at the EXACT same
intersection. Fagan leaned right into the oncoming truck and I stood on
my left leg on the peg, leaned a full two feet out to the left, pulling on the
handle bars, and gunned it barely missing getting clipped by a truck, (don't
know if it was the same one). At the time I yelled at him, I couldn't believe
the stupidity, but wrote if off, concluding, he was a bozo rider as well as
driver apparently. If I had not slowed him down by wagging the bike in the
blocks preceding the accident, the circumstance of the accident would have
delivered me like a sack of grain right UNDERNEATH an oncoming tow
truck.
*Just off the Left hand side of the Expressway going south in a long low two story building, first floor if I remember correctly.
*To Dance: between speeds of 30 and 60 you turn the extended front wheel back and forth almost on a second count ("one second womp two second womp") catching the edge of the front tire so it makes a slight whomp or catch sound at the verge of a topple....swaggering the bike and body in an S motion appropriately. A continuous refinement of the edge.
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