Our inchoate suspicions were answered -- the music student whose $175,000 loaner violin disappeared has now recanted her story that the violin was stolen from her locked trunk and admitted that she filed a false police report. The violin itself mysteriously turned up on the steps of a church in San Bruno -- possibly after the violinist learned that the insurance company would not cover the instrument's "loss." Maybe 2006'll be a better year for the SFPD!
File under heartwarming -- two couples driving home from two separate New Year's Eve parties in San Jose saved a toddler from a burning van on the Lawrence Expressway. The mother, who was driving, had apparently continued driving the van after its left front tire fell off, and sparks from the wheel well set the car on fire. The mother jumped out of the car but somehow managed to lock herself out and the child in. The partygoers smashed the window with a heavy flashlight and got the baby out safely.
And file under ...."a machine gun???" The BART police broke up a fight at the Balboa Park station at 3:40 a.m. on New Year's Day, and found out one of the (teen) perps had a Tec-9 assault weapon on him. We have two thoughts: 1) good thing that kid had until April 1 to report that gun to City Hall, and 2) we sincerely hope this doesn't cut into our chances of getting 24 hour BART service around here!
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