Seen In San Francisco: Water Pipes Outfitted With Massive 'Condoms'

Joe Eskenazi

Massive -- but safe -- phallic symbols

​Fair enough. Those aren't really condoms. But the pair of  20-foot-long water pipes protruding from this forklift sure do look like they've been draped with the world's largest jimmies (Galactic Prophylactics, you could say).

These tubes will soon have city water running through them; this is part of the ongoing Water System Improvement Program currently tearing the Lower Haight to shreds -- on the heels of the very same block being traumatized by Trauma.

The nice gentleman operating the fork-lift (whom we once saw competently doing his job while eating a bowl of oatmeal) told SF Weekly that the "condoms," fittingly enough, were placed on those pipes for "extra protection."

And if that isn't a perfect answer, we don't know what is.





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