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A crane operated by a company called (get this) Reliable Crane and Rigging dropped a 120-foot, 50-ton crane boom onto a house in Santa Rosa yesterday, splitting it in half and sparing only the Halloween pumpkin which sat unscathed on the porch railing. Another crane had to come to lift the first crane off the house. Neither the homeowners Michelle and Kevin McCarthy nor their children were home at the time and no one was injured. But yeah, kind of a bummer!

ABC 7 News spoke to one anonymous witness who says he watched, for twenty minutes, the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at a homecoming dance two weeks ago -- he says he was too scared to call for help or say anything because of who several of the perpetrators were. They also spoke to Salvador Rodriguez, who was held, questioned, and released in the case and who claims he tried to help the naked victim after the incident was over, and covered her up with her t-shirt.

ABC 7 has this report about Halloween in SF, sans bridge traffic, and it turns out business was still strong at places like Rouge on Polk (which has $500 bottle service at the booths!) and Teatro ZinZanni, which both depend heavily on their East Bay following. The turnout in the Castro -- while still festively large with many gays doing their one night of drag for the year -- was not as huge and unruly as in previous years (one reveler in the video notes the lack of "riff-raff"), and there were plenty of cops on hand telling everyone to stay on the sidewalks.

Katie Ashcero and her husband Rob are suing doctors at Laurel Fertility Care in San Francisco after the clinic botched an in-vitro fertilization procedure and then proceeded to destroy seven of the couples' embryos. It turns out they fucked up and fertilized seven of Katie's thirteen eggs with the wrong sperm, and then tossed the embryos, in violation of their contract with the couple. Katie would have preferred to have donated the embryos to stem cell research, but now that the clinic has refused to give her a refund, she and her husband are suing for fees paid to the clinic, lost compensation, and punitive damages. (via ABC 7 News)