SFist Blotter

Last Saturday, a fight broke out at the "Hyphy High School Bash" at the Marin County Corte Madera Recreation Center. The police raced to the scene upon hearing reports of gunshots and a Golden Gate Transit bus being blocked on Tamalpais Drive by 80 teenagers. They couldn't confirm whether shots had been fired, but someone had sprayed pepper spray into the crowd and around the same time, someone broke into a nearby elementary school. Hilariously, the Marin Independent Journal describes hyphy as "a music and dance expression that grew out of the Bay Area hip-hop scene," and one Corte Madera parent says "It's really ironic. We live in Marin, and I feel safer sending my daughter to San Francisco." Ooooh, not dangerous San Francisco! Hyphy hyphy hyphy hyphy (or, as they call it in Marin, "a music and dance expression").

There was a bomb scare by Lake Merritt yesterday afternoon. The police came by and blew up a suspicious-looking device (wires coming out of a shoebox) after a landlord in the apartment to do repairs called it in. The device wasn't dangerous, but it did have a recording of an explosion, followed by a voice saying "thanks for your help." The police did find a bunch of illegal fireworks and ammo, along with some survivalist gear, and the tenant was arrested.

And two close calls with cliffs -- a 13-year-old boy was rescued from the rocks near Fort Funston after he got stuck trying to climb down to the beach, while a dog (a whippet/Great Dane mix, off-leash at the time of the accident) fell 350 feet off the side of a cliff in Pacifica. Both the boy and the dog are fine, though the dog is in the hospital.

Picture from the Corte Madera Recreation Center website.