File this under “waste of time, you guys are morons.”
Via Yahoo Finance:
Simmering class tension in San Francisco hit a new level yesterday when protesters stopped a bus that Google hired to transport its workers from the city to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View.
Some San Francisco residents have complained that the success of the search giant and other Silicon Valley companies are driving up real-estate prices in the city — and driving out those who don’t happen to work in the booming tech industry.
In recent months, this frustration has increasingly been trained on a highly visible symbol of this disparity: The Google buses.
Yesterday’s protest, which was undermined by a protester who pretended to be a tone-deaf Google employee shouting at the other protesters, led to one of the Google buses being temporarily stopped.
In pictures that quickly hit the Internet, curious and presumably apprehensive Googlers were shown peering out of the plush second deck of the bus at a handful of sign-waving protesters. The protesters, meanwhile, demanded that Google pay $1 billion (a ridiculous amount) to the city for its use of “public infrastructure”–namely, roads, bridges, and the bus stops that the Google buses use to pick up and discharge their passengers.