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  Bad News From Top Dog

  http://boaltalk.blogspot.com/2008/05/bad-day-at-top-dog.html
  203 days ago in Nuts & Boalts · Authority: 26

  So today just before 4:00 as I strolled home from Boalt, chewing my lip over that Con Law take-home, I bumped into Berkeley Fire Department on Durant Avenue. They looked pretty busy. Which is understandable, because they had CPR in progress on a gunshot victim in the parking lot next to Top Dog. That would be 4:00 in the PM. Not AM. Three* simultaneous thoughts as I played gawker for a moment: Berkeley Fire Department has its shit together. The scene looked like a page straight out of a training manual That poor dude is a goner, though My obligations to the Dormant Commerce Clause? They're a privilege, not a burden. And stress over them probably makes me a smaller person, not a bigger one If you are like me, you feel stuck inside today when the weather is great, your exams are not over yet, etc.  Or perhaps (unlike me) the jumpsuit people may be about to rearrange your 90 year old grandmother's plans for your graduation.   Whatever.  At least you weren't lurking around Top Dog today at 3:45. And with a little more fortune, you were not close with any of today's patrons of that fine establishment. There is no way to say this, but if you are not that fortunate, I'm really sorry for your loss. Be the victim a perpetrator, a target or a bystander, this is a horrible thing.  We will learn the rest of the story piece by piece as it comes out.  But the senseless ugliness part?  That's apparent.   *(I also wondered other things, like whether they would have to break someone off from chest compression duty to man an extinguisher if all those unattended hot dogs were to ignite on the grill, how pissed the AC Transit drivers are going to be when they close down the street, and, um . . .  where exactly is that shooter right now, anyway? But those questions seem kind of inappropriate given their context.  Well, maybe not the shooter question.  But still.) Little update: Daily Cal article here.
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  Man shot to death in Top Dog’s parking lot near UC Berkeley campus - San Francisco Gate

  http://www.restaurantlocator.info/blog/8162/man-shot-to-deat...
  203 days ago in Restaurant Locator · Authority: 1

  Man shot to death in Top Dog’s parking lot near UC Berkeley campus - San Francisco Gate May 13th, 2008 (05-13) 17:10 PDT BERKELEY — A man was shot and killed this afternoon in the parking lot of a popular hot-dog restaurant just south of the UC Berkeley campus, the second killing near the university in less than two weeks, police said. The victim, a … Read more of this article click here –> restaurants - Live Search News Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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