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We'd now like to point you to this story of a little girl from Los Gatos, Erica Rix, who was on the Today show this morning telling Matt Lauer about the hand she had to have sewn back on after a freak accident last year. It seems Erica was dangling a jump-rope out the window of her mom's SUV (naughty!) with a slip-knot around her wrist, and when the rope became tangled in the car's axle it ripped her little hand right off. Doctors were able to reattach it, and a year and a dozen surgeries later, Erica can wave, bend her wrist and move her thumb.

Four months after a Muni agency report showed collisions between Muni buses and pedestrians "nearly doubled from the end of fiscal year 2006 to the same period in 2008," a new safety chief has been crowned. A 24-year transit-safety veteran, James Dougherty, has been announced as the chief safety officer and director of transportation safety. The former GM of safety and security of Charlotte, N.C.'s transit agency -- which, as it turns out, is not an intricate horse and buggy system -- will be in charge of "making sure bus and streetcar drivers follow the rules of the road and are properly disciplined when they cause accidents or drive unsafely." That is to say, Dougherty will be in charge of making sure Muni stays off Dan Noyes' radar.