http://sfist.com/ SFist is a website about San Francisco.Editor: Brock Keeling Publisher: Gothamist en Copyright 2012 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:04:39 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://sfist.com/2012/01/03/tuesday_morning_roundup_33.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/03/tuesday_morning_roundup_33.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/03/tuesday_morning_roundup_33.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-03T09:04:39-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/65-year-old_woman_killed_with_mache.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/65-year-old_woman_killed_with_mache.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/65-year-old_woman_killed_with_mache.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T15:00:00-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/daisy_does_the_niners_34-27_new_yea.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/daisy_does_the_niners_34-27_new_yea.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/daisy_does_the_niners_34-27_new_yea.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T13:25:16-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/impromptu_polar_bear_club_splashes.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/impromptu_polar_bear_club_splashes.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/impromptu_polar_bear_club_splashes.php#comments by social media and a shared desire for a meaningful beginning to 2012, jumped in to the Pacific Ocean. While the Ocean Beach plunge might not have had quite the attendance of our counterparts at Coney Island back East or the stamina of the Dolphin Club's Alcatraz swim, it did offer something decidedly San Franciscan. By which we mean there were naked butts. Possibly NSFW video of the new tradition, after the jump: [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T12:50:15-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/25000_reward_offered_in_fatal_shoot.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/25000_reward_offered_in_fatal_shoot.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/25000_reward_offered_in_fatal_shoot.php#comments struck in the neck by shots fired from a car passing by his family's taco truck on International Boulevard. Gabriel Martinez Jr. was the only victim of the drive-by shots that rang out just before 9 p.m. Friday. He was transported to the hospital where he was declared dead about an hour later. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T11:20:30-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/2012_starts_off_with_a_cough_and_a.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/2012_starts_off_with_a_cough_and_a.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/2012_starts_off_with_a_cough_and_a.php#comments literally clogged with the soot of a smoldering 2011. While we dig the idea of saying goodbye to the old year with a blazing Viking funeral it's not exactly making it easy to breathe around here. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T10:50:10-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/monday_morning_roundup_30.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/monday_morning_roundup_30.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/monday_morning_roundup_30.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T09:20:11-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/banana_sam_returned_slightly_shaken.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/banana_sam_returned_slightly_shaken.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/banana_sam_returned_slightly_shaken.php#comments Twitter sensation Banana Sam has been returned, only slightly worse for wear, to the San Francisco Zoo. The 17-year-old, 2-pound monkey was found Saturday evening by someone in Stern Grove, who managed to coax him into a backpack and return him to the zoo, where zookeepers say he was hungry, cold, and shaking but otherwise fine and uninjured. As Banana Sam's Twitter alter-ego wrote on New Year's Day, "The zoo said, I was 'hungry, trembling, and thirsty' when I got back. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THIS MORNING RIGHT?!!" Also, he added, "That's the last time I ever crawl into someone's backpack who says we're going to an 'awesome party, dude.'" [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T08:45:00-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/la_terrorized_by_carsonist_person_o.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/la_terrorized_by_carsonist_person_o.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/la_terrorized_by_carsonist_person_o.php#comments at least 55 cars were "firebombed" by what investigators believe may be Molotov cocktails "perhaps in a container able to penetrate car-window glass." It remains uncertain whether these incidents have all been the work of a single individual, and early this morning police announced that they had detained a person of interest in the case — a man driving a blue minivan with Canadian plates who may or may not be from Germany. They say it's too early to tell whether the man can even be considered a suspect. A string of eleven fires broke out in the span of two hours this morning beginning around 1:30 a.m. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T08:24:00-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/upper_haight_apartment_fire_displac.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/upper_haight_apartment_fire_displac.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/02/upper_haight_apartment_fire_displac.php#comments down in L.A., and a three-alarm fire last night on Masonic between Frederick and Waller damaged three buildings and displaced ten people. One person was taken to the hospital suffering from shortness of breath. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-02T07:45:00-08:00 http://sfist.com/2011/12/30/day_around_the_bay_834.php http://sfist.com/2011/12/30/day_around_the_bay_834.php http://sfist.com/2011/12/30/day_around_the_bay_834.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2011-12-30T16:45:18-08:00 http://sfist.com/2011/12/30/deplorable_teens_busted_for_mugging.php http://sfist.com/2011/12/30/deplorable_teens_busted_for_mugging.php http://sfist.com/2011/12/30/deplorable_teens_busted_for_mugging.php#comments deplorable teen news, KRON4 reports that three underagers were busted for mugging a 36-year-old man while he took a leak in a North Beach alleyway. The victim, who had been talking to the three suspects before he felt the urge to relieve himself, ducked in to an alley near Fresno Street and Romolo Place where the teens jumped him while he stood there, back turned with his equipment out. 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