SFist Blotter

Someone please page the karma police, vengeance division: a man is in court for allegedly pimping out a mentally handicapped woman in San Mateo County. He and a buddy had stolen a car they were using to drive her to her assignments, and were caught when the police traced the car's Onstar signal to their place. Wow, evil and dumb.

Earlier this week, the tony Los Altos Hills suffered its first armed robbery in at least four years, necessitating a search dog, a roadblock, and a police helicopter. A white man with a heavy Slavic accent and wearing a track suit, broke into a couple's home, duct-taped them up, repeatedly asked them if they were okay, and then made off with $300, two watches, and some costume jewelry. Well, isn't this nice? A man claiming to be the robber called the San Jose Mercury News to say that it was a fake gun and that he's not going to rob the couple again. "They can sleep." The robber said he was looking for something specific, which he wouldn't name, but which a neighbor said was two Ferraris.

And a physics teacher at Mount Tamalpais High is in a heap o' trouble, after a parent complained anonymously about his methods of teaching velocity to students, which involved bringing in his Korean War rifle and firing a bullet into a piece of wood in class, and then having the students calculate how fast the bullet was going. The physics teacher says it's completely safe because he has all the students stand behind him when he fires the gun. In this class, he also lies on a bed of nails and asks students to break a cinder block on his chest with a sledge hammer (we can't tell if the sledgehammer part is at the same time as the bed of nails).