In 1982, a BBC reporter stood outside San Francisco's historic City Hall to interview a chain-smoking nun on a motorbike.
Pulling a pack of Marlboros from under the band of her fishnet tights, wearing gigantic eyelash extensions and what looked very much like a padded bra over her head, “Sister Boom Boom” explained why she had just run for the city's board of supervisors, listing her occupation as “nun of the above” and coming in at a respectable eighth place with 23,124 votes.
