SFist Blotter

Two people saved from gunshots by inanimate objects -- a deputy saved by his belt buckle, and a husband saved from his pistol-waving wife by his La-Z Boy. The wife of the man in the La-Z Boy tried to kill him by shooting him through the back of the chair, but the chair blocked the bullet. The man then got out of the chair and followed his wife into the kitchen, where she tried to shoot him again but the gun jammed. He now says his wife was fooling around with the gun and it fired by accident (twice), that she was on pain meds and drinking at the time, and that they are deeply in love.

And intra-family tensions in the East Bay: There was a triple homicide in North Oakland at a family gathering gone wrong, over a custody battle. The homicide count for Oakland is now at 138 (last year there were 94). And in Fremont, a man shot his wife dead and severely injured his mother-in-law, and then himself was beaten almost to death by his sons, who were trying to protect their mother and grandmother. That's the fifth homicide for Fremont this year.

And this story about the girl kidnapped in Daly City is a little weird -- an 18 year old molested a 12-year-old for three years (whom he met when he was dating her aunt), and then held her hostage for one year in his basement in his parents' house. He would sneak her up food and she went to the bathroom in plastic bags. He's now 22, she's 16, and she was discovered when her captors' parents' house got foreclosed and he took her back to her parents. Her parents had thought she'd run away from home.