You want to park on Sundays? Well, parking costs. And right here is where you start paying ... in sweat. And in money. Just pay in money, actually. See, starting this Sunday, parking in San Francisco will no longer be free.

What does this mean? It means that, come Sunday, a slew of angry drivers will throw temper tantrums along city sidewalks upon the realization that, alas, they must throw down minor coinage to park. Be sure to point and laugh as you whiz past them on your bike, you cruel hippie.

The reason for charging vehicle space on God's day? Because businesses are open on Sundays. "Back in the 1940s, most businesses were closed on Sundays, so there was no need for metering," SF MTA spokesman Paul Rose tells the Chronicle. "But now it's just like a Saturday, with businesses open and plenty of traffic."

Seen mainly as a way of dealing with parking management, and not necessarily a revenue program, the Sunday meters will make an estimated $1 million by June 30.

Sad news for anyone who has ever felt the sting of an overdraft fee from the nation's largest bank: a federal appeals court in San Francisco declared yesterday that Wells Fargo Bank does not, in fact, owe California debit card holders some $203 million in restitution for its shady overdraft practices.

The class action lawsuit, which has been going on since 2007, alleged that Wells Fargo was using a shady method of processing debit purchases to a customer's checking account. Between 2001 and 2010, Bay City News reports, the bank would process the most expensive charges made in a day first before working through the lower charges. The end result is your checking account gets depleted faster and you're hit with a $35 fee for almost every charge.

To wit: if that expensive brunch you treated yourself to one Sunday morning was a little too much for your current checking account balance, you'd be hit with a painful $35 overdraft fee for that transaction. When you sobered up later, you might find out you were also hit with an overdraft charge for the $4 coffee you bought on your way to the restaurant and the $3 you spent an Walgreens on a travel size thing of Advil.

The practice was deemed misleading because the bank had implied that debit purchases were processed immediately and in chronological order. If an account didn't contain the necessary funds, customers were told, then the purchase wouldn't be approved in the first place.

At $35 a pop, Wells Fargo made $1.4 billion in overdraft fees between 2005 and 2007 alone. In 2010 a judge put a stop to the practice, calling it a "trap" that the bank exploited "with a vengeance, racking up hundreds of millions off the backs of the working poor, students and others without the luxury of ample bank balances."

At the time, the bank was ordered to repay $203 million in restitution, but in yesterday's decision a three-judge panel ruled that the federal law permitted the high-to-low processing procedure and overturned the monetary charge against Wells Fargo. The 9th Circuit Court did, however, agree with the earlier ruling that the bank had been misleading customers.

Since 2010, the bank has been processing debit card transactions in chronological order or from lowest to highest. Legally, the bank could return to the shady high-to-low processing practice (which would be disappointing), but according to a spokesperson for the bank, which is worth some $1.4 trillion, they have no intention to do so.

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Yesterday afternoon at City Hall, hundreds of cab drivers staged a protest and threatened to strike if the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency didn't give them face time to discuss critical issues. KTVU reports: "Representing many of the city's cab companies, including Luxor, Yellow Cab Cooperative and Green, the drivers were protesting a 5 percent credit card processing fee, implementation of electronic waybills and lack of SFMTA benefits, especially since the Taxi Commission merged with the SFMTA in March 2009."

What's more, the fees would go to private companies, not to the city. According to the Chronicle, "the credit card companies charge 3 percent for the transactions, and the firm that operates the readers in the cabs tacks on another 2 percent."

SFist reader Mandy Brown captured some of yesterday's noisy protest. Behold:

Student debt: live with it. That's the one thing your editor retained while enrolled in the UC system. But not everyone is content with such a harsh life lesson. Take, for example, the students and workers who plan on protesting the UC Board of Regents meeting on Wednesday. "Organizers are predicting anywhere from 200 to 400 people will come to UC San Francisco to protest a proposed 8 percent systemwide student fee hike to be discussed at the meeting," reports The Daily Cal. "According to ASUC External Affairs Vice President Ricardo Gomez, the protesters are expected to be divided about equally between students and workers."

In addition to an eternity burning in the lower circles of hell, handicap placard and parking space abusers will now face larger fines in San Francisco. Yesterday, the SFMTA approved fine increases for on everything "from blocking a blue zone to displaying an invalid placard." And we're sure we have more than one guilty reader.

This all comes on the heels of a state law authored by Assemblylady Fiona Ma, in October that lets local cities puff up fines. According to reports, "as of Jan. 1, those who display a lost, stolen, expired or counterfeit placard or plate will be fined $825, up from $750."

And, sadly, having handicap placards without the required handicap is as San Francisco as the Golden Gate Bridge, gays, and arrested development. Most of us know at least one driver with a bogus placard.

But the good news is that you can snitch on said friend(s), enemies, or that nasty bitch you've always hated. Just visit handicappedfraud.org to turn in violators. It's easy: simply record the placard number, the vehicle's license plate number, leave a "ha ha, I snitched on you, loser!" note behind, report it back to handicappedfraud.org, and then sit back and back in the warm glow of righteousness.

Oh jeez.

In addition to the now paltry 9.3% fee hike approved back in May, the University of California is discussing raising student fees an additional 32%, which would make "annual undergraduate tuition over the $10,000 level for the first time ever." Gulp.

The brainiacs at the Daily Clog have the numbers that will make you and your degree in comparative literature wince. Behold:

• 7.5 percent increase for spring 2010
• UC tuition up to $10,302
• Undergrads pay $2,500 more
• Most grad students also paying 32 percent more
• Undergrads (as graduates do now)—if in engineering or business—pay up to $1000 more than other students
• Enrollment reduced by 2,300 for the second year in a row

"It's really coming out of left field," president of the UC Students Association and a UC Santa Cruz undergraduate Victor Sanchez told Contra Costa Times. "What you're going to see is an astronomical drop in the number of students able to attend."

In a day full of angry citizens locking themselves to large buildings, three students were also arrested this morning after chaining themselves to the entrance of the UCSF Mission Bay community center. It seems that they're hot and bothered over the UC Regents for a myriad of reasons, but mainly because of "fee hikes, the use of the SAT exam in student admissions, UC management of nuclear-weapons laboratories, and what they called the university's lack of diversity." Also, members of the UC Regent clan are appointed by the governor, not via election. Boo.

What's more, these kids mean business. They're chaining themselves to areas around the building using bike locks around their necks, which sounds pretty dangerous. (Be careful -- especially you there at left.) The Gate reports that four people were still shackled to the doors, at least as of 9:30 a.m. Three of them are students and the fourth, it seems, is a "former student who said he had dropped out as a protest of UC policies." While we would like to call bullshit on the fourth student, we can't. Hate for the Regents runs pretty deep with most UC students.