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fogoverfrisco.jpgSo much bike-on-bike violence -- a 64-year-old woman pedaling her bike off the sidewalk on Oak and Scott was broadsided by another biker going 25-35 mph down Oak. The woman (who was n't wearing a helmet) is in the hospital with serious injuries. The other biker was found not at fault and won't be cited.

The first murder, of a paraplegic man, in Foster City in almost 10 years, from last week, just got a little more complicated: the authorities think the murder might be linked to another weird incident last week in the South Bay, where a man went to a gun shop in San Carlos, asked to see a gun, and then ran outside and shot himself. Turns out that man and the victim, Brandon Hepponstall, had recently been introduced to one another. Hepponstall was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident 11 years ago, was an avid horse gambler, and had a criminal record involving an incident where he brought an obviously-fake bomb to the Bay Meadows race track.

And a couple who visited San Mateo from New Mexico for a church retreat back in June were sentenced in absentia to three years probation for child endangerment, after authorities found one of their eight children sleeping on the sidewalk behind the tailpipe of their SUV, with the car still running, at 4:30 a.m. No one seems to know why only seven of the kids made it inside the house, or why the car was still running.

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I couldn't believe it when I saw it!

The first time a paraplegic man was killed in Foster City in almost ten years??

Who keeps those kinds of records?!?

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I love you guys. I read you every day. But come on. Can't you even read the article you link to? It clearly states that the woman actually was wearing a helmet. And it also states that she was emerging from between two parked cars when she was hit. It was a short article. Your coverage makes it seem that something else entirely happened.

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thanks for the comments, guys; edits in the text.

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