Police and lookiloos are wondering why a woman drover her black Lexus into the waters at Ocean Beach. The unidentified female apparently drove through a parking spot, the beach entrance, and down the sand into the ocean. According to SFGate, "Firefighters arrived on scene around 6:30 a.m. and found the woman sitting in her partially submerged car near Lincoln Way. Rescuers waded into the water and pulled the woman out."

Authorities will wait until low tide to pull the vehicle out. We will update as soon as we know more about the woman's condition.

Update: The woman survived what was, it seems, an intentional, desperate act. We wish her a speedy recovery.

PREVIOUSLY: Man Drives Through Muni Tunnel

“Word up” to local advice columnist, Chuck Nevius, for turning us on to the latest unsavory scandal to erupt like wildfire through the normally buttoned-down Tenderloin District. It would appear that Mike Powers, the Mickey Rourke-in-a-hearing-aid looking owner of The Power Exchange, has found the perfect new location for his sexy naked time club - immediately next door to a school for poor, refugee orphan children. Only in San Francisco? Only in Poland.

Of course, the sudden invasion of encounter-seeking ladies and gentlemen (ew!) has apparently resulted in herds of traumatized, burlap sack-clad children wandering the Tenderloin in a confused daze:

"There are 3,500 kids in this community," said Marie-France Ladine, principal of the burdened school, the San Francisco City Academy. "They're poor, they're scared, and a lot of them don't speak English. They have no voice."

Got it. Children. Who will think of them if not us. So on, so forth. Whatever. If only we had all voted in favor of giant digital billboards on Market Street, then there would be plenty of American dollars for arts and crafts to divert the poor Tenderloin children's attention away from the non-stop cavalcade of tits and ass that marches through their neighborhood. But we digress.

Yikes.

After Carole Migden was heard "berating" her Capitol staff yesterday, they were told to stay home today. Egads, right? According to Sacto Bee:

Enedina Hidalgo, the director of personnel for the state Senate, overheard Migden screaming, according to a witness to the event. The source said she entered the office while the senator was not present on Thursday, informing the staff of their rights.

Soon after, Hidalgo returned to Migden's office with Tony Beard Jr., the chief sergeant-at-arms of the state Senate. They told the staff to pack up their belongings and escorted them out of the building, the witness said.

Dude.

Carole, of course, denies that her staff was sent home. The infamously "brusque" Sen. declined further comment.

If you recall, Migden lost a three-way Democratic race to Mark Leno earlier this year. Was that the cause of her alleged hysteria? We're dying to know what she was screaming about this time. Oh, that Carole.

Things are getting prickly over in the anonymous tips section -- which, as you all well know, should be reserved for delicious tidbits of info only -- so we moved the discussion over here.

Someone, it seems. got all Cathy about having their pearls of wisdom removed over at SFGate on a story about yesterday's sudden retirement of San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo. Said someone posted a URL, which is fine and most encouraged, but then people responded. So? We're moving it over here.

You're welcome.

Oh, and here's what went down:

Extreme censorship on the Chron's comment page for the zoo story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a
9 hours, 7 minutes ago

oh get over yourself, the chronicle is a privately owned business, they can allow or disallow whatever the heck they want on their site. you are not entitled to free server space on a private server, don't like it get your own.
7 hours, 25 minutes ago

agreed.
6 hours, 48 minutes ago