Police arrested a local employment attorney who allegedly lured four women online and then sexually assaulted them once they met.
Prosecutors said that Robert Michael Hoffman, 50, posted a personal ad on Craigslist.org, to which four women responded. After chatting online, they separately agreed to meet him at his Aquatic Park apartment, according to San Francisco police.
Hoffman seemed nice until the women got inside his apartment -- that's when Hoffman became physically aggressive, prosecutors said.
The purported hacker who infiltrated the BART's Police Officers Association website today claims to be a French girl ("Humiliating, huh?") who executed her first hack, SF Weekly has learned. SF Weekly chatted online with someone who claimed to be the mind behind today's attack. She provided us with the security hole she used, saying the whole thing was incredibly simple.
Lamaline_5mg -- her online handle -- doesn't claim to be part of Anonymous, the Internet-based movement that masterminded Monday's BART protest. She even took issue with referring to the attack as a hack: "They had zero security," she wrote. "Listen, don't ask questions. I'll tell you what's important to know first."
Did we mention she's also a little bit bossy?
For all his Kennedyesque "uhs" and "ahs," President Barack Obama is nonetheless generally regarded as an accomplished public speaker, able to expound extemporaneously on a plethora of topics. But on the campaign trail in Minnesota on Monday -- during what former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney dubbed "the Magical Misery Tour" (we applaud the Beatles-appreciating speechwriter who coined that nugget) -- Obama was stuttering, not stentorian, when an audience member dished him a question on medical marijuana.
And it wasn't even particularly stressing. "If you can't legalize marijuana, why can't you just legalize medical marijuana?" asked a woman in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. That was the stumper after which Obama was literally left stammering.
Video, a transcript, and Democrat-bashing after the jump.
Anonymous is the notorious online hacker group that organized Monday's BART demonstrations after the transit agency blocked cellphone service on the platforms last Thursday in an attempt to disrupt a rally. Monday's protests caused major disruptions, forcing BART to close four stations, which of course, enraged commuters.
San Francisco-based In Defense of Animals and the Dreamcatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary have been battling the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) since 2009 to halt the roundup, which they claim violates the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
Protesters are planning yet another BART demonstration next week that will undoubtedly ruin your commute home -- again. The group claiming responsibility for the organized protests, Anonymous, is using Twitter to spread the word of the upcoming protest on Monday, Aug. 22.
According to the Twitter feed, which is claiming to be tied to Anonymous, commuters should expect a much larger protest on Monday: "no way of knowing what will happen during a protest. our best advice to you is look into another way home on Aug. 22nd," the tweet reads.
If Jeff Adachi is this city's pension crusader, Tony Hall must be pension pope. The former supervisor and professional singer (who has an colorful past, no doubt) told SF Weekly that Adachi's pension solution "isn't worth a darn." It simply doesn't go far enough -- and the Ed Lee plan is a joke.
Interestingly, the city's major proponent of blowing up the pension system and starting anew is, in fact, a pensioner. "That's me!" admits Hall.
In a form he recently submitted to the Department of Elections, Hall reveals that "nearly 100 percent of my current income is the retirement benefits I earned serving in [city] administrative positions. I have no other income."
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"I think pit bulls are a great start," Sanders told the Press Democrat
A night on the town turned into a night in jail for one San Francisco man, who was arrested after he got wasted -- and then violent.
At about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 12, police were patrolling the Richmond District when they saw a man pushing another man outside a bar on the 3900 block of Geary Boulevard, where Karma Lounge is located. Police broke up the altercation, only to learn that it was a bouncer trying to get a drunken bar patron out of the venue.
Apparently, the drunk man didn't like the fact that he was being cut off -- so he cut the bar owner.
San Francisco has long battled the growing trend of families with kids leaving the city for the suburbs, where rents are cheaper and tots can eat as many McDonald's Happy Meals as they want without Supervisor Eric Mar watching over them. A new Census survey showed that there are 5,000 fewer kids today living in San Francisco than there were 10 years ago.
So what's happening to all these kids? Let's hope this unsavory cover of Open Exchange has nothing to do with it.
