Update: Lyft confirms that one of its drivers was involved in the incident. Read statement from Lyft at the bottom of the story
San Francisco recorded another pedestrian collision this afternoon when an elderly woman was struck by a car as she walked through the city's Nob Hill neighborhood.
According to police, the woman was walking through a crosswalk at Jackson and Larkin streets at about 1:23 p.m. when the driver made a right turn onto Larkin and hit the woman.
Three Saratoga teens received 30 and 45-day juvenile hall sentences for sexually assaulting and scribbling in Sharpie pen all over Audrie Pott, who hanged herself in 2012 after photos of her graffittied body spread across social media.
While their punishment seemed rather light to some observers, especially given the high-profile nature of the incident, it might help a parallel case that Pott's family is currently fighting in Santa Clara Superior Court.
In October of last year, Lawrence and Sheila Pott filed a wrongful death suit against the three young perpetrators, their parents, the couple who owned the bungalow on Elva Avenue where the crime took place, and a 16-year-old girl who'd been deemed an accessory to the crime. The Potts ascribed Audrie's death to "acute embarrassment, shame, humiliation, etc. arising out of the incidents occurring at the party," and blamed the Elva Ave. homeowners, Michael and Sheila Penuen, for negligently entrusting a house with an unlocked liquor cabinet to the care of their teenage daughter.
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As we've mentioned in the past BART's lost & found is routinely filled with items you wouldn't want to ever touch: porn, prosthetics, and dentures.
But every now and again, the keepers of all things lost over there will come across something that might be worth holding onto.
For instance, this chalk portrait of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old gay man who was murdered in 1998, that landed at BART's lost & found earlier this year. There was no name or information, making it near impossible to reunite the artwork with the artist.
So BART did the next best thing: Sent the emotional drawing to the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Guess what, everyone: those nasty carrot and kale shakes are working!
A new study released this week confirms what other studies have already said about us: San Franciscans are some of the trimmest and slimmest people in the nation. NerdWallet released its findings, ranking our rolling city second healthiest community in the nation. Even better, we beat out Seattle and Portland. And because you are wondering, Boston is the only city that's fitter than us.
It stands to reason: San Francisco's steep landscape provide residents with a built-in interval exercise program that no treadmill could offer (at least when it comes to a scenic workout). And of course, knowing there's a taco stand or a bar in the far off distance will motivate the laziest among us to march those hills.
Strange and terrible things are seen on the curiously padded seats of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. Strange and terrible things you cannot unsee.
So, to merely witness something bizarre and out of the ordinary is, when you think about it, a blessing. And riders were blessed today with the sight of a handsome young man in full piratical regalia: the billowing, Long John Silver cloak, the knit waistcoat, a puffy shirt, and a three-cornered hat. There was no parrot. Alas.
When asked what the rationale was for his buccaneer attire, the man glanced up from his handheld videogame device, smiled, and exclaimed "It's Friday!"
Nick, a game programmer, says he's been dressing as a pirate every Friday since his UC Santa Cruz days in 2008. People at the office don't seem to mind, he reports -- meaning he works in a very chill office, he's an utterly invaluable employee, or a bit of both.
Donning swashbuckler apparel and riding BART between Daly City and Downtown is, in Nick's words, a "fascinating social experiment."
Police are looking for a machete-wielding man who reportedly stabbed and robbed a 25-year-old woman of her lip ring, of all things.
The incident happened at about 6 a.m. on Thursday when the victim was standing at the northwest corner of 20th Street and Harrison in the Mission District. According to police, an unknown man came up behind her and uttered something to her in Spanish -- something she did not understand.
The Board of Supervisors, spurred on by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and Walk San Francisco, is supporting a resolution to adopt a "Vision Zero" policy -- a transportation philosophy that aims to eliminate pedestrian fatalities. (As a sidenote, the term was first used back in Sweden in 1997).
But is Vision Zero realistic with a California car culture that's still driving strong?
San Francisco police needs your help locating these two alleged Muni vandals who, according to police, were caught on surveillance busting up a coach in the Haight District last month
The incident happened on Dec. 20 at about 9 p.m.; the 37-line was stopped at a red light at Haight and Asbury streets. At that point, a large crowd surrounded the bus, yelling, and banging on the windows.
