Religion of Peace and Mental Stability Update.

Boy, mohammedan-Americans sure do have a lot of mental illness. Luckily, they live in a country where they can be properly diagnosed and drugged accordingly. (Tom Cruise, call your office. If Viacom didn't cut off your service, that is.)

San Francisco Chronicle: HIT-AND-RUN: Within half an hour, 14 pedestrians picked off one by one on streets of San Francisco


A day of hit-and-run horror that started with the death of a Fremont pedestrian and erupted into half an hour of chaos on the streets of San Francisco ended in the arrest of a 29-year-old driver described by some relatives as mentally disturbed but by police as apparently rational and unrepentant.

At least 14 people were hospitalized Tuesday in San Francisco after the driver of a black 2004 Honda Pilot cut a path of destruction from the Tenderloin to Laurel Heights, striking pedestrians and a bicyclist in at least 11 locations starting at about 12:45 p.m.

Most of the injured were run down along a corridor of roughly 10 blocks running west from Pacific Heights. Witnesses said the driver sped up one street and down another, sometimes the wrong way, picking off people in crosswalks and on sidewalks. At least one victim was in critical condition Tuesday night; several others were treated and released.

"It was like (the movie) 'Death Race 2000,' " firefighter Danny Bright said at California and Fillmore streets, where four victims were hit. "Guys were walking down the sidewalk, and the guy just came up and ran them over. The guy went crazy."

Heehee. David Carradine is such a nut.

Less than an hour earlier, a black Honda Pilot had run down a 54-year-old man walking in the bike lane on Fremont Boulevard in Fremont, killing him. Police believe that the man, whose name had not been released Tuesday evening, was the San Francisco hit-and-run driver's first victim.

Police identified the sport utility vehicle driver as Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, who had just gotten married in his native Afghanistan, was living with his parents in Fremont, and had nothing on his criminal record except a handful of minor traffic violations. He was expected to be booked on 14 counts of attempted murder, police said.

I suppose we should be thankful the Chronicle mentioned the man's name at all. Publishing a name like that could incite anti-mohammedan sarcasm and ridicule.

Some family members said Popal had mental problems and lived in fear of the devil; others said his recent arranged marriage may have made him stressed.

He should live in fear of Satan. He practices a false religion, after all.

And let this be a lesson for all you old fashioned mohammedan parents out there. If you are going to arrange your son's marriage, make sure the girl is smoking hot. That way Junior will be too busy trying to procreate to go nuts and run over innocents with his SUV. (BTW, you should not let Junior drive an SUV. Everybody knows they are preferred by four out of five demons from Hell. Just ask the Sierra Club.)

A source close to the investigation in San Francisco, however, said Popal showed no signs of mental illness or remorse in his initial interviews with authorities. Popal reportedly told police that he had run down pedestrians "because he just wanted to."

Witnesses in San Francisco described the same unreal, terrifying scene again and again: A black SUV whose driver would chase walkers and bicyclists up the street and across lawns and slammed on the accelerator to pick off his victims.

"In some cases, he drove on the sidewalk, and in some cases, he drove on the street," said police Sgt. Neville Gittens, a department spokesman. "The hits were intentional with no regard in terms of who was hit."

No, that is definitely not like Death Race 2000. Some pedestrians were worth more points than others. Of course, it has been a long time since I saw that particular dumbass classic and I doubt I was sober at the time...I don't remember how many points a driver got for running over a Crusader or a Jew.

Police finally cornered the car about 1:15 p.m. in Laurel Heights, where they stopped the driver outside a Walgreens on Spruce Street near California Street by slamming into the SUV with their squad cars. One officer suffered minor injuries in the crash.

The office manager at a dental office at 500 Spruce St., who identified herself only as Kira, saw the arrest from a second-floor window as police dragged the driver from his battered car, its windshield caved in and its hood crumpled.

"He was absolutely indifferent, no fear, no expression," she said. "He was like a zombie."

Hmmm...Just like Osama Bin SUV and his hashish-fueled mass murderers.

The first hint of the carnage to come came at 12:47 p.m., when police received a routine call about a black SUV that slammed into another vehicle at Larkin Street and Golden Gate Avenue, then sped off into the Western Addition.

Minutes later, the calls were anything but routine. Dozens of scared and horrified witnesses described in shaking tones what was happening.

Larry Jackson was at Pierce and Bush streets and saw the SUV approach a red light as a woman was crossing the street in the crosswalk.

"He let her go by till she got in front, and then he just punched it," speeding up and knocking her down, Jackson said.

Linda Tuttle, a stylist at a beauty salon on Fillmore Street between Bush and Sutter streets, said she had seen the driver sitting close to the steering wheel, a look of anger on his face.

Four pedestrians were injured when the SUV roared through the intersection of California and Fillmore streets. One of them was Pedro Aglugov, 70. He was sitting at a table at a sidewalk cafe as he waited to be taken to the hospital, his head bandaged with gauze. He was holding an ice pack to one elbow.

"I had the green light,'' Aglugov said. "Somebody hit me and didn't stop. He was going real fast. I was lucky I wasn't hurt more."

DuWyane Thomas, 29, of San Francisco saw one of the hit-and-runs on Bush Street.

"I saw the SUV coming 35 or 40 mph and hit the man in the crosswalk,'' Thomas said. "His body stuck to the grille of the car and was tossed off as the car turned right. If the guy had not turned right I believe this guy would have been run over completely.''

Another woman was struck as she walked along Fillmore Street between Bush and Sutter streets. Witnesses saw the SUV drive up the sidewalk and slam into the woman in front of a nail salon.

Another victim was an FBI agent taking a walk on his lunch break. He was not badly hurt.

The SUV hit two people in front of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on California Street, just blocks from where the rampage ended.

I'm sure that was just a coincidence. The Jews are people of The Book, too, you know.

Blood covered the sidewalk in front of the center's gift store entrance, and 50 feet farther down the sidewalk lay a mangled bicycle. Security cameras in front of the center captured images of the incident, which happened at 1:12 p.m., said Aaron Rosenthal, spokesman for the community center.

Wow. My bandmates and I didn't know how lucky we were when we played a Jewish Community Center in Flyover many years ago. It was a charity gig, but you never know. Some people really know how to hold a grudge...

"As far as we can tell, they were simply pedestrians on the street at the time," he said.

Three women and four men ranging in age from 18 to 74 were treated at San Francisco General, said Eileen Shields, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Others were taken to St. Francis Hospital, Kaiser Medical Center and California Pacific Medical Center.

Maybe it had recently rained and the pedestrians were walking through puddles that resembled the false prophet. I could see how that would piss off a true believer.

As of Tuesday night, San Francisco and Fremont police were saying little publicly about Popal or any possible motive for the SUV rampage. Police with a search warrant entered Popal's home on Cabrillo Drive in a middle-class section of Fremont late Tuesday.

Popal's house is a beige stucco, single-family home. In a corner of the front yard is a large tree, and the home is landscaped with fake flowers. Yellow police tape stretched across the front yard Tuesday as uniformed police officers gathered outside the house.

A cousin of the suspect, Zarghona Ramish, said Popal was a good guy but had mental problems.

Popal "thought the devil was coming to get him," Ramish said.

That is not funny. Nor is it ironic.

Another relative said Popal was studying to be a mechanic and had most recently worked at a Newark tire shop. He was married about a month ago in his native Afghanistan and his wife still lives there, relatives said.

Oh, Afghanistan.

My humblest appy-polly loggies to the mohammedans. Obviously, Mr. Popal's murderous rampage was a political statement aimed at the vile Bush regime which is attempting to make fair Afghanistan unsafe for goat rapists. I'm sure ol' Ruthie Ginsberg will agree that, like pasties, political murder is constitutionally protected speech.

Popal's lawyer, interviewed at the Richmond District police station where Popal was being held, said, "My client suffers from mental illness -- he has been in and out of the hospital."

The attorney, Majeed Samara, said Popal's condition had deteriorated about six months ago and that he suffered from paranoia.

Samara said police had not allowed him to see Popal because Popal had not invoked his right to an attorney.

It was only a few blocks from Popal's house to the spot where the 54-year-old Fremont man was struck and killed on Fremont Boulevard. The man was walking along a bike lane between Ferry Lane and Decoto Road when the Pilot swerved into the bike lane and slammed into the man, tossing the body into a field next to St. James the Apostle Catholic Church, said Fremont police Sgt. Jeff Swadener.

Pray for his soul, St. James. Let us hope a priest reached him before he died.

"Did the driver swerve on purpose or was he just fumbling with a cell phone or something and drifted out of the lane? We don't know," Swadener said.

But, he added, "I fully expect and hope that the incident in Fremont is related to the incident in San Francisco."