SFist Blotter

See what happens when you brag too much? A woman in Scotts Valley was jumping up and down in the parking lot of a Safeway, with a scratch-and-win lottery ticket worth $5000, shouting, "I won!" when a man on a bicycle whizzed by and stole the ticket out of her hand. We're sure local anti-bike activist (scroll halfway down) Rob Anderson will be able to turn this anecdote to his advantage as well.

Let's be careful out there -- an off-duty San Jose cop minding his own business and driving in his own car on I-680 South suffered a concussion Wednesday night when a 15-pound steel hitch fell off a car in front of him, crashed through his windshield, and smashed into his face. The officer was talking on his cell phone when the accident happened, and managed to pull his car over to the side of the road without hurting anyone else. He's recuperating well and in good spirits.

And they caught the guy who set the apartment building on Page Street on fire Monday night. They found him in the UCSF hospital, when someone recognized him from the media reports. The suspect is reportedly a peaceful vegetarian, artist and yoga practitioner who had been checked into SF General after people found him wandering the streets in his underwear and bleeding from barbed-wire cuts on his hands. His family took him back to his apartment, left briefly, and then turned back and the apartment was in flames.

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