Yesterday morning at around 4 a.m., a woman over on the 1600 block of Hearst Avenue in North Berkeley "was awakened by a man standing over her flashing a flashlight into her eyes and waving the knife," telling her he wanted her "to perform a sexual act on him," according to CBS 5. During the attack, the victim screamed, prompting the attacker to dart off and leave behind his shoes. Berkeley police think this latest......

They do crazy things over in Sacramento. Take, for example, Kelly Pecor who was arrested last night after his sister caught him using her five-month-old bulldog, Chateau, for masterbatory purposes. Sis made a citizens arrest and now her brother faces charges of sexual assault on an animal. Pecor is also a noted registered sex offender with a history of child molestation. Read more about the canine copulation here.......

In the city of Richmond this weekend, a woman was "brutally raped" on the Richmond High School campus while walking home from the grocery store at around 11 p.m. The suspect was identified (though his name is secret from the press as of now) and arrested immediately after the attack.Carlos Padilla-Ovedio, 25, stabs to death Jesus Hernandez, 33, of Daly City, inside Cafe Durango in Daly City. Hernandez, it seems, made a "rude remark"......

All the way down in garlic country, Gilroy, a 19-year-old mentally disabled man was raped early Wednesday morning inside a bathroom near Miller Park. After "befriending" a man inside a nearby convenience store, the teen's new friend, identified as Gyasi Terran, followed him to the park and once inside a bathroom, sexually assaulted him. The victim then returned to said store and told an employee to call the cops. (To see what the alleged......

Dublin general practitioner Dr. Tony Shiu -- who was accused of photographing and molesting his patients while they were under anesthesia -- was arrested yesterday. Shiu had been living in Taiwan ever since he hightailed it out of the state after two male patients came forward saying that he raped them while they were konked out. SJ Merc reports: The investigation into Shiu began in August 2006 after two male friends of Shiu, including......

Parolee Troyshawn Robinson, 20, was arrested for committing a sexual assault "on an El Cerrito pathway underneath the BART tracks," according to the Gate. Robinson allegedly walked up to a male and female passing passing by around 8:15 p.m., robbed the two of them, and used a knife to hold the "man at bay" while he attacked the woman. As her tried to flee on foot, he was quickly arrested a few feet away.......

Over at the Papyon Terrace condominium complex in south Fremont, James Henderson--a 39-year-old man--raped, pistol whipped, and beat a woman early this morning, prompting a standoff with the police. (He lives in the garage of his family's condo, it seems. Charming.) Police still have him barricaded within Papyon Terrace's walls, according to the Oakland Tribune, and SWAT teams have surrounded the complex. Unfortunately, Herderson has yet to be apprehended or fatally shot. The Tribune goes......

SF Crime (via Bay City News) has harrowing details that a 17-year-old boy sexually assaulted and then shot a girl on March 8. The alleged crime occurred somewhere on Cesar Chavez Street. So far, the suspect is unidentified and still at-large. According to police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens, the "girl's gunshot wound was not life threatening. Although Gittens did not reveal the exact relationship between the two, he did admit that "[t]hey were known......

Over at the five-star Clift Hotel, home to the (in)famous Redwood Room, hotel employee Christian Rojas was arrested after he allegedly raped a hotel guest in her room. According to officials, the 30-year-old man used his keycard to enter the victim's hotel room, attack her, and then leave. According to the Clift's director of sales and marketing: The safety and privacy of our guests is our top priority. We are cooperating fully with the San......

Yikes. Not to drizzle gasoline on a fire again, but this alarming note was found at Drumm & Jackson (sent to us via Lady_K.) To All Female Tenants XXXXXXXXXXX our head head of security was recently brought up on rape charges. He would have been convicted but the woman was too terrified and embarrassed to testify against him. If you have had any problems or know a woman who has, call the police this......

Well this isn't very timely. But still, another bit of inquisitive Friday fun! Although there are 8549027869056725 sites out there that ask and answer the same thing -- i.e., the shower scene in Psycho -- a (sort of) friend writes to SFist asking: What do you think is the scariest scene in movie history? Eh, why not? East: the scene in Cinderella where her stepsisters tear apart her pink gown right before the ball.......

Last November's harrowing story about a Glen Park woman being raped twice by the same man, it seems, was just that: a story. It turns out that she fabricated the tale of first being raped as she walked from the Glen Park BART station on Bosworth Street, and then assaulted again by the same man at gunpoint just few days later in her garage. The victim-cum-suspect has yet to have any false-report charges filed......

Degrassi: The Next Generation is known for it accurate, yet sometimes vanilla portrayal of North American teenage life. Topics such as date rape, teen pregnancy, school violence, and inevitable cocaine abuse by wayward rockers are all fair game on this Canadian after-school-special-like teenage sitcom. Characters such as Manny, the school slut, Paige, the pig-faced "mean girl," and Marco, the Latino gay resonate with tweens and adults alike. One of the most unforgettable Degrassi characters is......

From November 16 to November 18, Denton Geiger, 42, a San Francisco resident, held his (ex)girlfriend captive in their former home, where beat and raped her. (Jesus.) According to the Examiner, "Geiger allegedly approached the victim on Haight as she sold marijuana and persuaded her to go to their former home...[t]he victim escaped on Nov. 18 when an acquaintance entered the residence and intervened as she fled to a neighbor’s house." After a good......

Todd David Burpee, the man who kidnapped and raped a Palo Alto teen last week, just busted out a heavy confession detailing the hour-plus moments he spent with his victim. It seems that this was all because he was upset and "just [wanted] someone to take out his frustration on after a fight with his girlfriend," reports the San Jose Mercury News. They go on to say that "angry after a fight with his......

-- The Virgin Spring and Through a Glass Darkly: Ingmar Bergman's rape/revenge flick (oh, we know that it's much more complicated than that, we're sure) The Virgin Spring inspired Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. And Through a Glass Darkly was described by Bergman as a "chamber film" for its allusions to "both to the chamber plays of Strindberg, and to chamber music in general." They screen tonight at 7 p.m (TVS) and......

According Eric Thomas from ABC 7, who went into mighty graphic detail about what happened, a suspect was arrested today for the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old Palo Alto teen. A press conference is scheduled at noon (now!), where even more details, names will surely unfold. This past Wednesday a teen was kidnapped in Palo Alto, taken to Sunnyvale (on the 500 block of Fair Oaks Avenue), and then sexually assaulted. She survived......

A Palo Alto high school girl survived a kidnapping and sexual assault yesterday afternoon, an ordeal that went on for 90 minutes. At 3 p.m. yesterday, a teen was on the "500 block of Arastradero Road near El Camino Real...near her home, when a man accosted her from behind, hit her in the face several times and dragged her into his car," according to Palo Alto police officer Dan Ryan. The city of Palo......

-- March, rally, die. [Bluoz, SFGate] -- Zombie, thrill(er), dance. [SFWeekly] -- Mac OS X Leopard...on your PC! [Laughing Squid] -- San Francisco's Visitacion Valley Middle School's principal to receive highest honor available for principals. Okay then. [CBS5] -- Half Moon Bay gang rape sentencing delayed. (Karma's a bitch, boys. Well, for you all it sure will be.) [Examiner] -- 32 Heron Street. Mmm, bricky SOMA goodness. [Curbed SF] -- Plane high dives into the......

The son of Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente, Ignacio De La Fuente Jr., 34, got smacked upside the head with a 14-year prison sentence for raping four women. "All but one of whom were prostitutes," according to the Chronicle. (So, we guess three of them deserved it? It's more violating and traumatic for just one of them? We shouldn't be that upset?)...

The film adaptation of the popular book The Kite Runner has been delayed. According to The Advocate, "Paramount Vantage delayed the debut for six weeks, until Dec. 14, after three of its adolescent male stars said they could be targeted for their participation in a homosexual rape scene." Even the book's author, Khaled Hosseini, supports the delay. Plus, the young Afghan actors have also been evacuated from their homes for fear of...I don't know,......

-- Explanation for last night's brief Bay Bridge light outage. [Oakland Tribune] -- Need a home in the Mission? And you're a web ninja and/or hacker? And a bit of an arsonist? Well, then you're in luck! [CraigsList] -- Police are on the lookout for a former South Bay man, Christopher Melvin Holland, for a 1983 rape and murder. [SFGate] -- Oakland environmental group claims that iPhones contain reproductive toxins. And yet, we still......

Many who fear him/her/it -- that is to say, loathe media as a civic institution -- cry out for zombietime's head on a platter, because there's ample room for disagreement. Such pearls as "[r]eliable impartial statistics on this topic are simply impossible to come by" regarding homosexual reprogramming (the American Psychological Association has loads of research on the futility of such experiments), or that participants going to the fair "are agreeing to be 'visually raped'" (not much of a rape if it's consensual), turn heads but also make zombietime so much fun and such a fascinating read....

Today we found one of many of the following flyers posted on Stillman Street, a strip of eastern SOMA where overpass construction dominates, dangers lurks, and Giants and Shitty Nights fans use as a urinal. Appended text: "Must be new to the area!" We see a lot of these missives around the area. (What's most infuriating, though, aside from the criminal activity, are similar flyers posted at Whole Foods begging the public for the return......

Un-American group the Catholic League, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights sect, has called for a boycott of Miller Beer ever since The Last Supper got the parody treatment from the Folsom Street Fair folks. Two great comments on our original post that can sum it all up, more or less: guest, "This isn't about christians, gays, or fisting; it's about ignorant American philistines too dull to understand that homages to The Last Supper......

-- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). -- Opium's Literary Death Match: The last Opium's Literary Death Match got ugly, in a good way. (Read about it here.) Judges Anika Streitfeld (Random House), Jesse McKinley (New York Times), and Eric Spitnagel (Fast Forwards) have literary series Writers With Drinks (Carol Queen), Porchlight......

More vigilantes? A shooting yesterday afternoon in the Loin may have been an attempt to clean up the neighborhood. At around noon yesterday, authorities found a man with non-life threatening wounds after hearing reports of one shot being fired. The shooter was arrested a few hours later, after what the report called an "intense" building search. Witnesses say the shooter was acting as an armed vigilante of some sort, but the cops won't comment about......

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-- Judy Butterfield: Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and more come to life via seventeen-year-old Judy Butterfield. Wait, she's seventeen and headlining at the Plush Room already? We were robo-tripping at that age. Christ, that's amazing. OK then. She sings at 8 p.m. at The Empire Plush Room, 940 Sutter; $25. -- The Devil Came on Horseback: The U.S. isn't the only country that loves a good rape and murder spree on foreign soils. Take, for......

When you're delivering 3 gallons of GHB (the “date rape drug”) from areas north to San Francisco, maybe you should stick to the speed limit. A fool from L.A. was pulled over for speeding in Sonoma County when cops found the offending liquid in the car. Homeboy probably would have gotten off with just a ticket, but instead decided to act all sketchy, causing the CHP to search his car. The GHB, worth around......