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It's the better safe than sorry edition! So an SF mother frantically alerted the media that her daughter was missing after her finals in Atlanta, only to find out that her daughter had been arrested. The daughter had refused to give her name to the Atlanta police, so when the mother called to ask if her daughter was in jail, they didn't have her name in the database. Another woman alerted the SFPD that her elderly parents had been missing since Tuesday. Last she'd heard, they were going to the doctor's for a routine appointment, and when she managed to get into their house, they didn't have any of their medication with them. They turned up two days later, reporting that they'd gotten a little lost. Numerous people reported seeing their car in various places in Oakland and San Francisco. And finally, Wendy's reported that its second quarter earnings were down 4 percent, all because of finger-in-the-chili Anna Ayala. However, sales of chicken club sandwiches, iced cappuccinos, and yogurt are up, up, up!

Frank Francisco of the Texas Rangers was sentenced for throwing a chair at mamma-taunting A's fan Craig Bueno, and hitting Bueno's wife Jennifer in the face. Francisco pled no contest to the charges of misdemeanor assault, and got three years on probation, 20 days in a sheriff's work program, 500 hours of community service and six months of anger management classes. Francisco can take those classes with fellow Ranger Kenny Rogers. Dude, someone found a foot in an Oakland park on Wednesday. Good thing Anna Ayala's still locked up or the foot would probably have turned up in a bowl of chili. And SF District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi took a break from coordinating his wardrobe with Matt Gonzalez's to stop some crime! P.J. Corkery and J.K. Dineen from the Ex report that Mirkarimi was walking on Webster Street and saw a "suspicious" guy pulling a knapsack out of the broken window of a parked car. Ross said, "Hey, that's not yours, put it down!" and the guy dropped the bag and fled. Turns out the car was owned by a tourist from Texas, who said, "I know nothing of Mr. Ross and his political ambitions, but he was honorable enough to get my belongings back and for that I am grateful." Ross, ever modest, told the Ex, "Please don't make me out to be the caped crusader, because I'm not. Anyone would do such a thing." Ross, you're our hero!

Oh, you gotta check out the picture of this on the front page of the Chron this morning (not online, unfortunately). So a tourist is visiting our fair city, driving a rented SUV. You know how it is when you rent a car -- whoops, I accidentally turned on the windshield wipers, are those my fog lights?, etc. Well, this tourist smells a funny smell and notices that his emergency brake has been on the entire time he's been tooling around Russian Hill. Well, he stops on a scenic block, fiddles with it, and finally gets the brake off. As soon as he turns off the brake, though, the car starts rolling backwards downhill. Guess where he is? Lombard and Hyde -- the crookedest street in the world!! (yes, we know that street in Potrero is actually crookeder.) He loses control of the SUV trying to navigate the turns backwards, it flips over, and he and his daughter have to break their way out of the window. They're both fine, or we wouldn't be giggling so hard. In our two other obligatory crime listings, Anna Ayala the Finger Lady is reporting that people are sending her anti-Hispanic mail, and there was a murder in the Mission at 20th and Folsom last night.

Brian Rossiter, the owner of "the most famous hand in America," has begun lashing out at reporters, describing his life as "hell" since the news broke that he sold his severed finger to Anna Ayala and her husband Jaime Placensia for $50 to drop in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Rossiter's mood seems to have darkened from Wednesday, where he was reported to have gone to his favorite bar, waved his hand around, and got his buddies to buy him numerous shots of his favorite drink, Goldschlager. Goldschlager? A prominent doctor at SF General was found murdered in the doorway of his house in Diamond Heights. Police are focusing on cherry pits strewn around the house and outside in his yard as possible clues. And the police have a man in custody who set fire to a building across the street from the Old Mint in SoMA last night. The man was seen running out of the building with a jar filled with liquid and screaming that he was involved with the fire. The SF Fire Department rescued six residents in the building who were either trapped in their apartments or had fled to the roof.

Breaking news! Breaking news! OMFG, breaking news!! They figured out whose finger was in the chili! The San Jose cops announced that they've positively identified the finger that Anna Ayala found in her Wendy's chili as the finger of a person who knows her husband. That person lost the finger in an industrial accident last December. As the cops said, "The jig is up." Ayala and her husband, Jaime Plascencia -- so busted. In other news, Wendy's is giving out free frosties across the country all weekend, in order to cash in on their non-culpability in the whole debacle. We do love a Frosty.

See The Lineup and Dirty Harry tonight at the second-to-last night of the Balboa's Reel SF film fest! A disgruntled former employee stormed the Conard Community Services Center at 9th and Mission yesterday morning and shot a caseworker dead. It could have been much worse, but for the quick thinking of another employee, a man coming by to pick up a public assistance check, and a third homeless man in the area, who wrestled the shooter to the ground and disarmed him. The shooter was carrying a handgun, a shotgun, and an axe. Y'know, coming back and shooting up your former office just confirms that they were probably right to let you go in the first place. The finger lady's back in town! Anna Ayala was arraigned (check out that smirk!) in Santa Clara Superior Court yesterday, with a cheering crowd of 12 present. (They were asked to cover up their homemade INNOCENT shirts before entering the courtroom.) Ayala waved big and repeatedly mouthed "I love you" to them and the cameras, and let out a big whoop when the judge set bail at $500,000. Meanwhile, the cops are now searching a ranch in Mexico. And the student leader of the gay-straight alliance at Tamalpais High in Mill Valley has confessed to faking incidents of anti-gay vandalism at the school, saying that she just wanted some attention. The school had been investigating anti-gay graffiti on the walls and doors of openly gay teachers, and the vandalism of the gay-straight alliance student leader's car. The school has stripped the student, a wrestler, of her award for Best Student Athlete as a result.

An 18-year-old woman in Salinas named Erin Shatraw was convicted of child molestation for molesting a 14-year-old female family friend. Shatraw told the 14-year-old that she (Shatraw) was a vampire and she would cast a spell on the 14-year-old's family if they didn't have sex. The 14-year-old said she believed Shatraw was a vampire because Shatraw was wearing so much black. And this is not technically in our coverage area, but -- yipes! A white supremacist in Sacramento decided to celebrate Hitler's birthday by having a friend nail him to a board so he could be crucified outside the State Capital to protest the Iraq war and U.S. immigration policy. He had a doctor's note saying it was okay, and had crucified himself once before, in 1987. A man who stabbed a card dealer at the Lucky Chances casino in Colma pled not guilty to attempted murder charges. The man had apparently lost money at the table a few weeks earlier. And finally -- Anna Ayala, the lady who found the finger in her chili, was arrested at her home last night, while watching a DVD of "Meet the Fockers." And Wendy's is giving out free Frosty shakes to everyone who stops by a Bay Area store this weekend.