Near popular paragliding spot Mussel Rock on Saturday, police arrested a man who was shooting at air gliders from his balcony. Authorities were called to the area after paragliding fliers reported "four or five shots" being fired at them. Bay Area News Group reports:
Some Dudes Shot At Paragliders From Daly City Balcony
Daly City Man Drops Baby Into Hot Oven
Gregory David Colver Jr., 20, will stand trail this week for allegedly (and accidentally?) plopping his 17-month-old son into a hot oven. Associated Press reports: "Prosecutors say 20-year-old Gregory Colver Jr. had turned on the oven in his Daly City home to make pizza on Dec. 28 and saw his son banging his hand on the open door. To teach the child a lesson, prosecutors say, Colver lifted the boy's legs into the oven but lost his grip and dropped him onto the hot coils."
Police Raid Nine Homes In SF and Daly City, Seize $450K in Pot
The San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force conducted a coordinated raid of nine homes Monday, in both S.F. and Daly City, all of which are thought to be connected to the same "tight-knit drug trafficking organization." They arrested eight individuals, all of whom have Vietnamese-sounding names, and seized 55 pounds of the green bud along with 1,400 plants, six guns, and $47,000 in cash.
Daly City Man Steals Makeup, Helps SF Women Feel Pretty, Then Gets Arrested
Turns out makeup can not only make a girl feel less ugly, it can also help pay off your bills!
Woman Shot In S.F. After Refusing To Pull Over
A woman is in critical condition this morning after being shot by Daly City police in San Francisco on Saturday night. According to reports, police tried to pull over the woman in her car, but she "accelerated and crashed into a nearby home" and then "put the car in reverse, hitting a Daly City police officer." Police then opened fire on the car.
Fake Friar Brought Up on Molestation Charges
Anthony Thomas Falco, who went by the made up moniker Brother Tom, is in custody in South San Francisco on $1.6 million bail after he was found (via Google) to have a seedy past that included failure to register as a sex offender in Minnesota, and a previous sex abuse conviction in Santa Cruz County.
SFist Blotter
Haight/Assault: Egads, how gruesome. Early Sunday morning around 2:30 a.m.-ish, an assault occurred near the intersection of Waller and Webster. William Valentine, 42, was arrested for attacking someone he allegedly knew. According to BCN (via CBS 5), here's how it went down:
Second Death After Cow Palace Rave
Trung Nguyen, 25, died on Sunday at Washington Hospital in Fremont, making him the second fatality after Memorial Day weekend's infamous Cow Palace rave. Nguyen was a graduate of Overfelt High School and UC Davis graduate.
Grandfather-Granddaughter Fast Food Outing Foils Possible Predator Arrest
Earlier this week, a retired Daly City police officer witnessed an "elderly man" in his 60s talking to a 2-year-old girl at a McDonald's on Redwood Highway. Deciding something fishy was afoot, said officer "called for the deployment of uniformed personnel" (i.e., backup) to help nab the alleged McDonald's molester in action. This Chris Hansen moment, however, turned out to be something different, something all too innocent. According to 's Gary Klien, "Units arrived on scene, initiated an investigation, and determined there was negative suspicious activity, as the male subject was the juvenile party's grandfather. The elder party advised units that he had effected a conversation with the juvenile 'about nonsense' in order to 'keep her entertained.'" No arrests were made. The grandpa and granddaughter went on to enjoy their Happy Meals in peace, shock.
Cow Palace May Say Its Final 'Moo'
We'll 'fess up. We haven't been to the Cow Palace since the 2005 Tattoo Expo. With that said, we're a bit torn with how to feel about the possibility of the Cow Palace being demolished. With such historical events as the Beatles playing there and John F. Kennedy speaking to the masses about starting the Peace Corp, on that hand alone, we'd hate to see this place go.
Love Moth-Killing Spray Is In the Air This Summer
Somehow this news story managed to slip past our radar last week, but the Gate published a story on how our wonderful state of California will be spraying the Bay Area with pesticides this summer. In an effort to eliminate the light brown apple moth (aww. Aren't they so cute?), an insect potentially disastrous for farming in California, the state agricultural department will be spraying an insecticide known as Checkmate over urban areas, according to the Chron. Cities that will be included in the spraydown are: San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, Oakland, Piedmont, Emeryville, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Tiburon and Belvedere.
Blocker: 100 Baltimore
Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour.
See Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner in The Kingdom...Free!
Forget that Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Cooper star in The Kingdom. The divine Jason Bateman also appears -- reason enough to check out this action flick.
Canine-On-Canine Crime in Golden Gate Park
As reported on the animal-loving SFGate/Chon, two leashed dogs were attacked by two coyotes (No, not them!) on Saturday morning on a trail near Speedway Meadow. Yikes, is right. So be careful out there in the park. An attack hasn't been reported here in well over ten years, but still, watch out while relaxing or working out in Golden Gate. And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They...
Day(s) Around the Bay
-- Whole Foods might be in a whole mess of trouble. Federal regulators look over seven years worth of (not-so) anonymous, ethically-questionable financial site postings made by chief executive John Mackey, who apparently has never heard of an IP address. Dumbass. [AP via SF Gate] -- Elderly man shoots garbage truck because of the union lockout. But probably more so because of the sundry of shitty smells, senility. [KTVU] -- Tim Goodman talks about...
Ask a Muni Driver
Okay, so we're a day late on this, but this post is still well worth it. Before we start, we'd like to issue this reminder-- if you got any questions for our driver, drop us a line at editor@sfist.com. We'd also like to say that next week we got a Very Special Ask a Muni Driver and we hear at SFist are pretty darn excited about it.
Anyways, here we go, yo...
SFist Photo: Daly City's "Little Boxes on the Hillside"
Daly City's "Little Boxes on the Hillside"
Your Commute: Oh No, Ed Jew's Commute!
Why are all the roads collapsing around here? A newly-installed piece of pavement on came loose at around 5 a.m. this morning, necessitating the closure of three lanes of traffic near Burlingame.
Day Around The Bay
--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too?
We Read The Weeklies
guys is pretty funny. Is payola coming back for web radio? And no more crack rap, please. Also, a birthday party for John Adams, and Savage Love forgot about adoption.
SFist Answers: Towing And Selling Out
It's time for SFist Answers, trying to enjoy the weather from inside today.
Yvesdropping Have a One-Way Ticket
-- From YSE/Westfield center food court
SFist Blotter
Hey, do you guys remember the story about estranged Daly City politico couple the Berlangas, where the ex-wife and the ex-husband were running against each other for a seat on the City Council and the ex-wife accused the ex-husband of doing it to intimidate her and got a restraining order against him for stalking her? Well, he was sentenced to 15 days in the county jail and 32 hours of anger management classes for violating the restraining order last week. Also, neither of them won the election -- the ex-wife came in fifth and the ex-husband came in seventh.
Craftwork: Places we like on the Interwebs.
Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art auction for the Kim family. Lisa, Gerrie Congdon, and Stephanie Barnes organized an amazingly successful auction which raised a total of $16,899.11. The generosity of both the people who bid and the talented artists who donated their work was astounding. All of the money will be donated to the James Kim Memorial Fund, and anyone who would like to give but didn’t get a chance to can donate money directly to the fund.
A Bay Area Daiso!
So we were going to the Serramonte Mall in Daly City last night. If you must know, it's because we've put off shopping for our relatives, and we thought we might be able to find a toy store there. We didn't find a toy store -- but we did find what looks to be the very first Daiso store in California celebrating its grand opening!!!! WE'RE SO EXCITED!!!
SFist Blotter
Two people saved from gunshots by inanimate objects -- a deputy saved by his belt buckle, and a husband saved from his pistol-waving wife by his La-Z Boy. The wife of the man in the La-Z Boy tried to kill him by shooting him through the back of the chair, but the chair blocked the bullet. The man then got out of the chair and followed his wife into the kitchen, where she tried to shoot him again but the gun jammed. He now says his wife was fooling around with the gun and it fired by accident (twice), that she was on pain meds and drinking at the time, and that they are deeply in love.
Your Commute: Bad Day On BART
Those of you taking BART this morning were greeted with delays of around 25-30 minutes, due to a Daly City-bound passenger's illness at the Embarcadero stop. We're not really sure why a Daly City bound passenger's getting sick would affect traffic into downtown SF and to the East Bay, but when we arrived in the BART station, the SFO-bound trains were moving fine, but all the downtown trains were crawling along like... like... like MUNI! Lots of stopping and starting in the tunnels.

