I was downtown today so stopped in at the “suicide cafe” for a soy latte. A couple years ago when I was working at the SOMA Good Vibes offices, we used to go to this cafe in the San Francisco Center all the time for coffee. One day, some guy rode the escalators all the way to the top, and jumped. Then he got up, rode the escalators up again, and jumped a second time. On the second landing, he hit his head on the espresso machine. So we started calling it the suicide cafe.

Here’s an old article about it. As you can see in the above photo I took today, they still use the espresso machine.