Folks got a little drunk and disorderly as they streamed out of Golden Gate Park last night after the Arcade Fire and Deadmau5 sets. The SFPD reports they arrested about twelve people after the fest, all for being loud and "silly." more ›

We're sure many of you have been idly wondering what's been going on up in the Upper Haight with regard to the Sit/Lie ordinance. And perhaps those of you who don't live there have even wandered over for an Alembic cocktail or a vintage cravat and thought to yourselves, "Huh, things aren't that different vis a vis the summer campers stoned on the sidewalk and such, but maybe I'm being harassed just a tiny bit less than usual." Well, as the Examiner reports, since beginning to issue citations in March, the SFPD has doled out about 50 of them, along with about as many warnings, and arrested a couple of drunk and disorderlies. (Despite calling these numbers "prolific" a couple of weeks ago, some cops admit it's seeming useless.) more ›

A 65-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday night on Maynard Street in the Ingleside district, after he approached officers with a machete and failed to respond to their verbal commands. The man's roommate had called police because she feared for the man (or for herself) after he was drinking on top of his medications. Clearly he was in enough of a stupor not to have understood that he shouldn't have chased down police with what's being a called a "large machete," but the death follows on a report by the SFPD that a third of all officer shootings in the last five years could have been avoided due to the use of Tasers. more ›

A flight into SFO was diverted to Colorado Springs on Saturday because a guy got drunk and ornery at the back of the plane and was demanding more booze. Apparently, this situation was a serious enough national security risk that two F-16s had to be deployed to provide an escort to the plane in its emergency landing. WTF, people. Couldn't the flight attendants just have slapped this guy, or rufied him, or something? KRON4's full coverage of this event, after the jump. more ›

Here at right is the dumb, now dead kid who is responsible for the vehicular manslaughter of that family of four on their way home from a Thanksgiving vacation on Saturday. It turns out, like many teens, 19-year-old Steven Culbertson of Lake County had a previous crash on his record, and a DUI caused his license to be suspended two years back, when he was 17. Many commenters have noted that this case calls to question things like installing parental speed controls in cars, and whether teens, regardless of their status as adults at age 18, should even be allowed to drive cars. Obviously, this is just a sad, sad situation, and a tragedy, and short of shackling all rebellious teens in basements we're not sure that there is a broad, generalized solution that would have avoided this. But yes, perhaps this particular nineteen-year-old was not yet enough of a grown-up to have his own car -- and that intersection at Hwy 37 and Lakeville Hwy probably needs to be re-engineered. more ›

Somebody caught this arrest on video Saturday night: a very obnoxious drunk guy starts screaming and generally making a nuisance of himself -- all while brown-bagging it -- as the train is stopped at West Oakland Station. A BART police officer quickly moves in and pulls the guy off the train, and pushes him across the platform where (it appears) his head ends up going through one of the glass barriers on the other side. While some might cheer this valiant effort to remove a drunk asshole from a train, others are raising questions about the officer's excessive use of force. more ›

As many San Franciscans know, getting food after midnight in this town is no easy feat. We still have our share of late-night diners though, like the Grub Steak, Sparky's, Lori's and Mel's. Only one made the cut in Playboy magazine's A-list of the Top 10 Late-Night Diners in the country that "truly embody the late-night experience," and that's Orphan Andy's on 17th Street in the Castro. more ›