Actor James Garner, who died over the weekend, is a model of versatility.
Best-known for his turn on "The Rockford Files," we remember him fondly as the man who made a Nazi POW camp seem fun — and the ideal place to run an illicit moonshine still, with help from Steve McQueen — and thanks to Celebstoner, we are reminded of Garner's secret to enjoyable longevity: marijuana.
Like McQueen, Garner was a regular marijuana smoker. And unlike the shorter-lived McQueen, Garner smoked cannabis for 50 years, and credited marijuana with improving his health and well-being immensely. He also called for legalization in 2011 in his autobiography. What's not to like?
A 58-year-old man was taken to the hospital after he was inadvertently tossed into a recycling truck early this morning.
At about 6:30 a.m., the man was slumbering inside a recycling dumpster when a Recology truck driver dumped the bin which was filled with cardboard — and the sleeping man — into the garbage truck.
Mindy Talmadge, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department, says the driver heard the man banging in the back of the truck; he stopped the truck, exchanged a few words with the man before he immediately drove him to the nearest fire station where he was carted away in an ambulance.
In his finest bit of playacting outside the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan in Kings Row portrayed a double amputee who awoke, post-operation, and exclaimed "Where's the rest of me?"
Obviously, that question only applies to the insomniacs out there. We heard a very loud pitter-patter on our Oakland rooftop around 4 a.m., followed by some very unexpected thunder, but we weren't convinced it was weather-related until peeking out the window.
Come to find out, we weren't the only ones who witnessed this summertime rarity.
Weather experts confirmed that indeed raindrops fell through the East Bay briefly around 4 a.m. -- there was some lightening, thunder, and hail too.
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San Francisco has put in its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. It's a long-shot no matter how much Mayor Ed Lee wants it, as we'd have to beat out Boston, D.C. and Los Angeles (a two-time previous host) just to get the U.S. committee's official nod before competing against any number of world cities.
Apart from promised revenues and infrastructure improvements that don't always materialize, plus the prospect of being saddled with stadiums that languish unused, there is another problem for residents of host cities consider: The possible return of the morals police.
Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the recently concluded World Cup and will also be the site of the 2016 Games, might have a reputation as a freewheeling pansexual utopia (albeit a crime-ridden one), but as VICE noted, there were crackdowns on bars, particularly those with large gay and transgender clienteles.
Police are at the scene of a shooting in SoMa where an unidentified person was killed early this morning, marking the third homicide in less than a week.
Sgt. Danielle Newman says that at about 5:12 a.m., police got a 911 call for help at the intersection of Sixth and Harrison streets. When they arrived, there was no victim to be found.
Not long after police left the scene, a victim showed up at San Francisco General Hospital where he/she was pronounced dead.
There's been recent reports about more break-ins at tech offices around San Francisco, and while we don't have statistics to give you a current snapshot, we do have some recent video footage of the alleged crimes in action.
These videos are reportedly from a surveillance camera at the BuildZoom office earlier this month. YouTube user David Petersen, who is also the founder of the company, posted the following videos and this message to viewers:
The BuildZoom office at 650 Mission Street in San Francisco was burglarized on Sunday, July 6th, at 7:02 am.This person has burglarized at least two other offices in SOMA, and was spotted attempting to break into our building about 2 weeks ago by our cleaners. We believe that she had a copy of a key to our unit.
I will personally pay $1000 to the first person to identify this woman. If you have any idea who it is, please email david@buildzoom.com. Thank you!
She came back 20 minutes later to steal more, but our alarm went off and scared her away
