At approximately 2:45 p.m., Angela Siu had just merged onto the bridge toward Oakland when she spotted the man and noticed he did not appear to be looking out for cars. To be safe, she called the police.
"He was walking straight, but he wasn't paying attention," Siu told SF Weekly. "He looked very determined to go somewhere."
At approximately 3 p.m., Twitter user Jay Unidos wrote: "We hit some traffic on the Bay Bridge, heading back to Oakland. A cop had what looked to be a jumper handcuffed on the ground."
SF Weekly may as well be called the Weekly Nostradamus. In 2007 we prophesied that aggressive proselytizing by atheists would create a spiritual vacuum only fillable by Steve Jobs
One can wander about San Francisco uttering "you don't see that every day" -- every day. And yet, as your humble narrator pedaled past the ballpark and into the aptly named dogpatch he witnessed the scene below:
By now everyone is -- uhh -- digesting the news of the Alaskan mother who is in jail on child abuse charges after force feeding her 7-year-old son hot sauce as a form of punishment. While her actions might seem draconian (there were no chips to go with that hot sauce), it's got everyone asking is it really child abuse?
We know in California, where a spanking is frowned upon, the notion of drowning your kid even in mild sauce is unfathomable.
And you know what else would probably constitute as child abuse ...
After the deaths of a pair of San Francisco firefighters, SF Weekly pored through labor statistics to learn just how often tragedies of this sort occur. The answer: a lot less often than you'd think. It turns out janitors, automotive store clerks, and cabbies die on the job at a far higher clip than firefighters. And fishermen out-die everyone; a cabbie selling timing belts and mopping up on a fishing vessel is asking for it.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which provided the mordant data we reported on, this week came out with its most current analysis of workplace death. Here's what we can learn from the 4,547 instances of reported deaths on the job in 2010, a statistical dead heat -- no pun intended -- from the 4,551 workplace deaths in 2009:
Genghis Muskox was leading a leisurely life on his sailboat docked at Pier 39 with his black lab, Coffee Bean - drinking beers and detailing boats. Not bad for a 25-year-old man. But in January, Muskox pushed the dog into the water after she pooped on his boat, and the two of them haven't been the same since.
As we wrote in our print edition this week, Muskox ended up getting arrested for animal cruelty, and the city's Animal Care and Control wouldn't give Coffee Bean back to him until he forked over some $200 to spay her. Coffee Bean, of course, not only got thrown into the water, but came out of that situation only to have the city make off with her ovaries.
Police are investigating a mid-day murder that claimed the life of 18-year-old Kevin Hall of San Francisco.
At about 12:33 p.m. on Thursday, Hall was the passenger in a vehicle headed eastbound on Alemany Boulevard when the car stopped. The suspect vehicle, a 2-door silver sedan, pulled up next to the side of the car Hall was in. A man got out of the passenger side and walked over to Hall and fired shots at him, according to police reports.
D.A. candidate Vu Trinh shocked audiences earlier this month at a candidates debate with his blunt responses and confession that he's been arrested twice (both cases were dismissed). So who is this newcomer with an interesting past?
SF Weekly sat down with Trinh yesterday to find out more about why he wants to be the District Attorney and his arrest record. Trinh talked to us about his brush with the law and his hatred for political pettiness.
A foundation dedicated to promoting one-on-one tutoring for school kids has expanded its mission to include helping homeless people.
Mayor Ed Lee might still be a shoo-in among voters, but his popularity has clearly plummeted in and around City Hall. The newly minted mayoral candidate is being passed over by political groups both big and small when it comes to endorsing candidates.
For an incumbent mayor, Lee is certainly getting snubbed; in the last few weeks, the League of Conservation Voters, Central City Democrats, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, came out with their endorsements -- and it wasn't Lee. He did however, secure the third place endorsement with the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Club, and last night, the Police Officer's Association lumped Lee onto its slate at the last minute under political pressure, a move that insiders are calling a laughable "shitshow."
Perhaps the biggest blow came last week when the Democratic Party passed over Lee and voted to throw its support behind City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor John Avalos. What's even more telling is of the 32 members, only two cast their vote in favor of Lee.
"He's not been gaining a lot of endorsements, and it's surprising," says Jim
Ross, a local political consultant. "None of the ex-mayors, aside from
Willie Brown, have come out to support him."
