It's always good to check in on San Francisco and see that, yep, it's still a very weird, very odd city:
Fish are falling from the sky in parts of San Francisco, and a boom in coastal anchovy populations is to blame.
Reddit user sanfrannie posted earlier this month that about a dozen 8-inch silver fish "rained down from the sky" onto their friend's roof and back deck in the Outer Richmond. Several other users commented with similar experiences — one person said they "heard a whoosh sound behind me and heard a massive splat" before seeing fish scattered on a nearby driveway. Another commented that they "almost got hit by a fish waiting for a bus" in the Castro, and a third person said they assumed "a band of roving kids were doing a Tik Tok sardine-throwing challenge on a roof somewhere" after seeing several fish fall onto an Outer Richmond sidewalk.
Consider that language for a moment: "A massive splat." That's a really specific choice of words. You don't just describe something as emitting a "massive splat" unless it did, in fact, massively splat on the pavement. You recognize that sound when you hear it.
Apparently gluttonous birds are to blame:
Local fishers and researchers are blaming seabirds that, because of an explosion in the anchovy population off the coast of the Bay Area, now have more fish than they know what to do with.
"From Half Moon Bay to Point Reyes, people are telling me they've never seen bait this thick," said Larry Collins, president of the San Francisco Community Fishing Association. "I heard stories just last week from guys who said that the water out there was just covered with thousands of birds, and the birds were just sitting on the water with anchovies in their mouths because they can't eat anymore."
Man, birds, you need to start exercising a little self-control! It's just a disgraceful lack of discipline on display here.
Anyway if you're allergic to fish it's probably a good time to avoid San Francisco for a while.
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