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 Russo also got dinged for having a crack in his windshield and for having an outdated address on his driver's license.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.

There was a huge and spectacular fire at an abandoned warehouse on Treasure Island early Thursday morning. The SFFD let it burn because there was no risk that the fire would spread and it was too dangerous to send people in. They had to use the fire boat (which uses water from the bay) to put out the flames because there wasn't enough water pressure on Treasure Island itself for the hydrants to work.

A San Bruno family is looking for their missing father -- Noah Myoung, a 60-year-old Korean limo driver, left home for a job at 7 p.m. on May 1 and hasn't been seen since. He's 5'8", 165 pounds, last seen wearing a black suit and white shirt. His car, a black 2007 Lincoln town car, has a temporary tag on the back bumper with the number 18525. Call the San Bruno police if you have info: 650-616-7100.

And three robbers were foiled in their four attempts to rob people in a span of 10 minutes near Union Square Tuesday night: the first man warded off their attacks with his briefcase before escaping into a pizza parlor, the next guy outran them, and the third guy frightened them with his yells for help. They did beat up a hotel employee for his wallet next, but within minutes, the cops grabbed the perps (all three young adults from Union City) at Bush and Powell and arrested them.

A fight on the Cal campus last Saturday left a senior with a fractured skull and brain damage and a member of the rugby team looking for an attorney. The resident went outside when he heard someone breaking a window of his co-op (at Prospect and Channing), and got in a confrontation with a guy wearing a Cal rugby shirt. The rugby team had won the national championship that night. The victim claims the rugby player grabbed him by the throat, threw him on the ground, and then hit him on the side of the head. The rugby player, through his attorney, claims the victim was the one who grabbed him by the throat, and that he never broke any window or anything.

A fat guy wearing a hat like Gilligan's has been robbing banks up and down the South Bay. His picture appears at your left. He kind of looks like Wilford Brimley to us.

A guy working in an unidentified San Francisco store was convicted of credit card fraud. The interesting part is that this guy had previously been convicted of impersonating baseball stars Derek Jeter and Nomar Garciaparra to sell fake personalized baseball bats on eBay. One of the emails he sent to the Original Maple Bat Co., from the email address derekjeter222@hotmail.com said he liked their bats because Jose Canseco used them, and could he send a couple samples over. This actually worked! The guy then swung the bats around for awhile and sold them on eBay as Derek Jeter's bats. Aw, come on --would Derek Jeter really use the email address derekjeter222@hotmail.com? Jeter makes like, what, $21 million a year? Why would he be using a free hotmail account?

Students at Cal protest the store Bear Basics for selling shirts they found offensive. The shirts in question said "Rutgers Nappy-Headed Ho Basketball Team." A manager was asked to stop selling the shirt and refused, so the students organized a protest for the next day. The manager's boss intervened and pulled the shirt before the store opened the next day, but when the students came by a few days later, they found two other shirts offensive so they planned a protest this Wednesday. Eight shirts were ultimately taken off the shelves.

Community college Diablo Valley College has referred 74 students to the Contra Costa DA's office for investigation in a money-for-grades scandal. It turns out people in the DVC records office would change your grades in the computer system for $600 a class, with some Fs getting changed into As. (You think they charged less to move something up to a C?) About 400 grades were changed, and of the students involved, a significant number took those doctored grades and transferred to four-year programs. DVC doesn't look so good in all of this either -- it turns out they let about 100 people have access to the grades database (including students) when most schools only allow around 5-10 people access on a very strict security system, and they've known about the problem for over a year before it became public.

And here's the grim: Oakland City Council President Ignacio de la Fuente's son, Ignacio de la Fuente Jr. pled guilty to raping four women and a man was shot on 26th and Harrison Wed. night.