Have you guys seen all those "Click It Or Ticket" signs they've had up on the LED signs on the highway about how they're enforcing the seat belt laws this month? Well, Oakland City Attorney John Russo didn't, and got nabbed on Piedmont Avenue for going beltless. We pretty much always wear a seat belt now because that dinging noise that the dashboard makes if you don't have it on drives us mad. Russo says he was distracted by his sons as they were driving away (in his hybrid -- of course!) from Fenton's Ice Creamery and forgot. This is a class act apology, though -- "There's no excuse. I should have been wearing my seat belt. I will not fail to wear my seat belt in the future." Russo also got dinged for having a crack in his windshield and for having an outdated address on his driver's license. Ironically, the cop that ticketed him had been involved in a city lawsuit for kicking a perp in the groin in 1998.

There was a murder at Laguna and Eddy around 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, ending three months of no homicides in District 5. There were also two shootings on Tuesday, one in the Bayshore and one off Divisadero. (The one off Div was in District 5 but the victim is stable.)

And in transportation news: After the Macarthur Maze thing, they're thinking about tightening the hazmat rules. Two gravel trucks collided in Napa on the Silverado Trail. Someone mistook the brake for the gas and drove a car into a dental office in Castro Valley. Someone found a dead body on the side of the road off 280. And Carole Migden has quit driving.