This morning, there was a sit/lie rally happening at City Hall -- a protest against a law that would, if all goes according to plan, preemptively stop crimes from happening in the Haight. How so? Well, it would make it illegal to sit or lie down on public sidewalks. That is to say, it would attempt to legally extract the teen hooligans who, reported C.V. Nevius, have been using their pooches, cross words and stale body odor to terrorize residents and passersby on Haight Street. more ›

Last week, if you recall, SF Chron columnist C.W. Nevius wrote about bullies with pit bull terrorizing the Haight neighborhood. A day later, SFist heard word that SFPD cleaned up said neighborhood a wee bit, making the streets safer for tender residents. more ›

Here's yet another story on how Yelp are bullies, via Eater. Robert, a coffee blogger in Vancouver had signed up for a Yelp account a few weeks ago, but didn't do anything with it until he heard from Crystal H, who told him she was looking for good coffee places to check out. Crystal convinced Robert to start putting his cafe reviews on Yelp, telling him she had received a lot of traffic to her own website through Yelp ("much more than Twitter"). more ›