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In response to allegations by deceased Stanford engineering grad student May Zhou's father earlier this week that his daughter's death was a homicide and not self-inflicted, the Santa Rosa police released additional information from their investigation. Namely, they said they have videotape and receipts of her buying four bottles of sleeping pills from local drugstores in two days, and they have an email she sent to her younger sister a few days before she disappeared that reads like a suicide note. Three of the bottles were found in the trunk along with her body.

--Here's today's mini-blotter: a family murder-suicide in Tilden Park; Man hit by a BART train at Balboa Park in the late morning today; a guy drove off the side of Mount Tam [Inside Bay Area, the EBX 92510, the Chron; CBS 5; Marin IJ].

--Have you checked out the footage (above, 4:34) of someone driving their Prius into the N Judah tunnel? The derisive laughter as the driver sheepishly gets out of the car is ) is genius. (We don't know how to get rid of those white edges on that YouTube screen.) [N Judah Chronicles.]

--Daly's not wearing green beads anymore.

Remember the guy who ran over the ducks at a Campbell car wash earlier this year? Well, the cops still haven't made any arrests yet, but "by no means is the case closed," says Captain Russ Patterson. They have security video of a guy in a red Acura running down ducks and then jumping out of his car to kill some of them with his bare hands. No one's seen the car since, but customers at the car wash keep asking about the status of the case 9and some say, "I hope they run him over when they catch him.") They've got $24,000 in their reward fund and are still hoping to pay that out. Picture from the SJ Merc News by Rick E. Martin

The dead whale in Half Moon Bay still hasn't exploded (the threat of that has apparently passed.) There's now a turf war over whether the Harbor District (who takes the sea) or San Mateo Parks and Rec (who takes the land) is responsible for getting the rotting carcass off the beach. Meanwhile, a shark research foundation has gotten permission to cut off some of the whale's blubber to use as shark bait. Dude, you're bumming if your dog bites a politician's dog. Burlingame city counselman Paul Prendiville is trying to get a lab-pit mix off his block after it attacked his shih-tzu. The shih-tzu's eye was pulled out of its socket, but has since been resewn back in. The owner has agreed to pay the vet bill and neuter the dog, but Prendiville wants the dog off the block entirely. Prendiville told the press, "I'm grateful that my dog is Catholic and he survived." (....um, what does that mean?) ....okay, this isn't really animal-related but hey, the witness's name is Dog! Close enough! A dump truck carrying 20 tons of dirt lost control and ran into an "adult video arcade" on Sixth and Mission in San Francisco at about 9 a.m. this morning, narrowly missing three patrons (getting an early start on the day there, guys!). Store clerk Jersey Dog said one patron was pinned against the wall but was otherwise okay. Interestingly, about a year and a half ago, the adult bookstore across the street was also hit by a runaway vehicle (a 14 Mission bus). Picture of dead whale by Judith Calson of the SJ Merc News

Things just keep getting worse and worse for Ms. Anna Ayala, the woman who purportedly bit into a fingertip in her Wendy's chili last month. So not only was her house raided, it also turns out she has a long history of filing lawsuits, including suits for food poisoning, claims that tires fell off her car, and a claim for sexual harassment against a former employer. This of course led to some skepticism when she brought out her 13 year old daughter wearing a sling and started ranting about police brutality (though we hope the daughter's arm feels better soon and all that). And today! Well, so not only has she decided to drop her claims against Wendy's entirely, her lawyer also quit. The lawyer, however, denies that his quitting has anything to do with this latest incident in Pahrump, NV, broken by the SJ Merc News. What incident, you ask? Well, in Pahrump, about an hour away from Vegas, where Ms. Ayala lives, a woman was attacked by a mountain lion. What part of the woman was attacked, you ask? Funny -- the lady's fingertip was bitten off, and later returned to her in a cup of ice. The picture of that fingertip looks suspiciously similar to the fingertip found in the chili. The fingertipless woman has not returned calls to the police. Picture of the Wendy's in question from KGO 7