San Francisco's strange and terrible 'Crazy Bernie' saga
That was Bernie Curran's boisterous greeting to his colleagues when he walked into the Department of Building Inspection - every day, for years and years.And it hardly seems he was being facetious.Curran, who picked up the nickname "Crazy Bernie" as the hard-partying surfer dude king of the beach, transferred that persona into his day job as a building inspector and, subsequently, a senior building inspector.