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Entries from SFist tagged with 'assault'

August 9, 2008

"Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SFMOMA is a first rate asshole." And so begins Bay Area photographer and blogger Thomas Hawk's most recent entry about being physically thrown out of SF MOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) for having the unmitigated gall to snap this image within the touristy downtown museum. It seems SF MOMA has, or had, a strict no-photography policy. Hawk goes on to say that said ban......

Continue Reading "SF MOMA's Director of Visitor Relations Has Vistor/Blogger Physically Ejected"

June 17, 2008

Wide receiver Javon Walker of the Oakland Raiders was severely beaten, robbed, and left in a daze after a night of heavy partying in Las Vegas. Stripped of "large amounts of cash" and some jewelry, the football player was, it seems, blowing off some steam at such sexily-titled Sin City clubs as Tryst and Body English. According to the esteemed TMZ Walker was last seen "spraying pink champagne into the crowd" over at Body......

Continue Reading "Oakland Raiders Wide Receiver Receives Beating During Las Vegas Robbery"

May 30, 2008

Dublin general practitioner Dr. Tony Shiu -- who was accused of photographing and molesting his patients while they were under anesthesia -- was arrested yesterday. Shiu had been living in Taiwan ever since he hightailed it out of the state after two male patients came forward saying that he raped them while they were konked out. SJ Merc reports: The investigation into Shiu began in August 2006 after two male friends of Shiu, including......

Continue Reading "America's Most Wanted Nabs Fugitive Rapist Doc Tony Shiu"

May 19, 2008

Anonymous' protests just get more and more exciting. So much so that SFist will start every Monday morning with a weekend protest review. Mind-numbingly brilliant title TK. Anyway, according to the lads trying to bring down the Church of Scientology with funny masks and regular weekend demonstrations typically held near the church's Montgomery Street branch, one very loud female was assaulted by a CoS member. Or so we're told. A tipster says: During a......

Continue Reading "When Scientologists (Allegedly) Attack"

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