By Sarah Phelan
…mayoral candidate Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, that’s who!
Grasshopper pictured, playing guitar atop his taxi cab, which is wheelchair accessible, just in case you’re wondering.
Just when you think things couldn’t get worse for beleaguered “District 4” supervisor Ed Jew, someone goes and unscrews the numbers from his house at 2450 28th Avenue.
That screwdriver-wielding someone is mayoral candidate and taxi driver Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, who told us he removed the numbers at 6:30 AM, July 23, “after ringing the doorbell on three separate occasions at the house where Jew doesn’t live.”
“I wanted to talk to Jew about whether he’d let me live in the house,” said Kaplan, explaining that he’s homeless and asked three longtime neighbors of 2450 28th Avenue if they’d seen Jew.
“None of them ever had, except for one who said, he’d only seen him once in the last few weeks,” says Kaplan, who sleeps in his taxi, which is painted purple with green grasshoppers, and is running for mayor, so he, “can have a place to live.”
Noting that in addition to a house in the Sunset District, Jew also has a taxi medallion, Kaplan asks “Do you know anyone who has ever been transported in Ed Jew’s cab?” As it happens, the medallion in question belongs to Ed Jew’s family, and the Taxi Commission is already reviewing the matter of medallion ownership, in general, rather than yet another Jew-centric investigation.