Halloween Castro style - San Francisco

I had been looking forward to this event, and if it was anything like the previous street fairs then I though I was in for an experience. After being in Waikiki with Adam for last years Halloween I certainly had high expectations. Yet I felt disappointed by the crowd and as a friend from Chicago stated, 'it was suburban and thugish'. The normal street carnival atmosphere was missing, and with the event being held in the Castro, I expected a lot of colour and movement. All I got was a bunch of 'bridge and tunnel' 20 something year olds with a belly full of grog that they couldn't handle. And to top it all off, at the closure of the street party, at 11.00pm, gangs rubbed each other up the wrong way and a shoot out began with a number of people being hit by bullets. I thankfully had had enough of the louts in the street earlier on, so William, myself and the rest of the gang had well and truly entrenched ourselves into a bar away from the bullshit going on outside.

As such I have no photo's of the evening so can only direct you to this outside website http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/BAG7CM2Q454.DTL&o=4

The story on the evenings shootings are at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/BAG7CM2Q454.DTL&hw=halloween+shootings&sn=003&sc=782