SFist Blotter

We can't get enough of the home alone kids in San Ramon! Their father and stepmother have pled no contest to the claims of child endangerment, and were sentenced to 270 days in jail and 180 days in jail respectively. They also have the option of home detention, which seems peculiarly appropriate. (We gotta say, though, maaaaan, we've always thought it would be excellent to be on house arrest. Do you get Netflix?) Dad and stepmom are sticking by the "we thought Grandma was coming over to pick up the kids" story.

And our other obsession, the Starbucks bomber: they've confirmed that the thing that suspect Ronald Schouten left in the bathroom was not a bomb, but he's being held for shoplifting something from one of the electronic stores on Van Ness (Best Buy, maybe?), and was also busted on an outstanding warrant for cocaine possession from last summer. The police also report that Schouten does not appear to be affiliated with any "anti-Starbucks" groups. Also -- an exclusive interview with Schouten on CBS 5, where he says he loves that Starbucks and would never want to hurt it. Wonder what the coffee's like in jail?

...and pot-smoking engineering majors throughout San Francisco mourn, as a local Hayes Valley gallery reports that two of the MC Escher paintings it was showing were stolen some time last week. Since the alarm didn't go off, they suspect the thief snuck the 1 foot x 1 foot paintings out under a coat or something. They say they're going to start looking into affixing art more permanently to the walls in the future.