What was that thing Andy Warhol said? The victim in San Francisco's first homicide of the year, the stabbing we mentioned last week at the corner of 6th and Stevenson, turns out to have had a moment (or fifteen) on reality TV. 30-year-old Joseph Minozzi was found stabbed in the torso on January 12th around 2:30 a.m., and he died about an hour later at SF General. He had moved to the Bay Area from L.A., and had recently gotten a job as a high-rise window washer.

As the Examiner reports, Minozzi had appeared in a 2010 episode of A&E's Intervention in which his girlfriend at the time, 21-year-old Rachel Coccio, was the junkie subject. Minozzi was portrayed as her villainous boyfriend who was drug-addicted himself and tried to talk her out of going to rehab for her heroin and cocaine addictions. On the show he's shown imprisoned on a domestic abuse charge against Coccio, and we're told he later entered rehab himself. (See the promo of the "Rachel" episode here.)

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On last night's Intervention (the Emmy Award-winning reality series that follows drug addicts around with a camera, culminating in a usually heart-wrenching "gift" of rehab presented by the subject's family) two locals were featured on the show. Luke, one of the kids you see skateboarding by the Ferry Building, and his mother live on the streets due to the former's problem with crack-cocaine. He's a bright kid who wants to become a journalist (not a good profession for an addict, by the way) and loves to read (Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac, just to name two), but can't seem to stop using that which is whack. The whole ordeal is sad (yet entertaining) and a testament to the folks we see living on the streets each day.

You can watch the episode in its entirety here.

Of all the locations Luke visits while collecting money and scoring his poison (foraging for stuff in a trashcan outside Hotel Monaco, smoking on Polk, calling the stretch of Market Street between Second and First his favorite spot in the city), one place in particular resonates: the San Francisco public toilet. Around the 11:25 Mark, Luke goes into a public bathroom along the Embarcadero 16th Street to buy drugs from a dealer inside using the place as an office. (The bathroom even has a guy stations by the door to welcome patrons in and watch for cops outside while transactions take place.)

Footing the bill for these public toilets? You. As Joe Eskenazi pointed out in a 2008 SF Weekly article, the toilets cost taxpayers $326,000 a pop, and that's not including maintenance. (But, as one SFist commenter pointed out, the public johns have little or no cost to the city, and are /financed through advertising on them.")

We don't know about you, but we never use city public toilets, even in the most dire of bladder and/or #2-related emergencies. (Hot tip: We typically dash inside the lobbies of either the St. Regis or Four Seasons for such unspeakable acts.) The public toilets are known for being used in this manner, so most people avoid them altogether.

How about you readers, do you ever use San Francisco's pricey public toilets? If so, good Lord, please please explain yourself.

Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a Fry's Electronics VP and Palo Alto resident, is being accused of stealing around $65 million in company funds to pay gambling debts. According to reports, Siddiqui is "accused of cutting side deals with some Fry's suppliers, allegedly receiving kickbacks in exchange for placing larger than normal orders at higher prices." Sounds like somebody needs a surprise meeting with Jeff VanVonderen, yes? (Speaking of Intervention, the greatest show on television, did anybody watch it last night? Jesus. Amazing. We predict swallowing 'out' and eating through a tube 'in' as next year's hottest foodie trend. God willing.)