SFist Blotter

As if SFPD police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens's day wasn't bad enough with the Castro car fires -- about an hour before Castro Street went up in flames, someone walked into a crowded community center gym in the Western Addition, where up to 50 people were playing basketball, and shot a part-time employee of the center to death. On the footage we saw of this on the news, poor Gittens had clearly been called in on his day off to respond to the first shooting, and then had to run over to the Castro 30 minutes later; you could see him visibly aging on screen.

In South City, two guys held up a pizza deliveryman, but panicked when they saw cars driving by. They grabbed the pizza but left all the cash.

And people in Burlingame are getting exercised about a recent lowering of the speed limit from 35 mph to 30 on California Drive between Burlingame Avenue and Murchison, with scads of people calling into City Hall to complain. Must be nice living in Burlingame! Turns out the speed limit was lowered because the average speed on the road has dropped to around 30 mph. The Burlingame city manager is now telling everyone that they won't get tickets if they drive 35 mph on that section.