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We've gotten several e-mails about a shooting in Lower Haight, around 9:30 or so this morning on Webster Street between Page and Haight. We don't know much of the details but we do know there was a lot of police in the area and a bus was pulled over, probably to see if there were any eyewitnesses.

What did we tell you? Bay Bridge traffic was a nightmare today with the new reconfiguration of the SF offramps. Making matters worse, one of the contractors got a little delayed this morning and took an hour longer to get the cones taken down than he should have, which further backed things up. On the MUNI side, no one knows what the effect of the fare hike's going to be. The fare strikers released numbers that showed no real effect in money earned for the first three days of the month. The strikers take the position that this shows that the strike has had an effect (since numbers should have gone up), whereas MUNI takes the position that you have to wait until the end of the month to tell, because more people may have bought FastPasses instead. We're impressed that people can read so much into so little data -- but we will say, though, that for the first time ever, our usual FastPass vendors were reporting that they'd sold out of passes by Thursday the 1st. And hey -- they're finally opening the new Central Freeway! Ribbon-cutting ceremony today, new Octavia Street offramp opening Saturday, congestion back shortly after. Hey, did they take down that Webster Street temple yet?

Frank Francisco of the Texas Rangers was sentenced for throwing a chair at mamma-taunting A's fan Craig Bueno, and hitting Bueno's wife Jennifer in the face. Francisco pled no contest to the charges of misdemeanor assault, and got three years on probation, 20 days in a sheriff's work program, 500 hours of community service and six months of anger management classes. Francisco can take those classes with fellow Ranger Kenny Rogers. Dude, someone found a foot in an Oakland park on Wednesday. Good thing Anna Ayala's still locked up or the foot would probably have turned up in a bowl of chili. And SF District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi took a break from coordinating his wardrobe with Matt Gonzalez's to stop some crime! P.J. Corkery and J.K. Dineen from the Ex report that Mirkarimi was walking on Webster Street and saw a "suspicious" guy pulling a knapsack out of the broken window of a parked car. Ross said, "Hey, that's not yours, put it down!" and the guy dropped the bag and fled. Turns out the car was owned by a tourist from Texas, who said, "I know nothing of Mr. Ross and his political ambitions, but he was honorable enough to get my belongings back and for that I am grateful." Ross, ever modest, told the Ex, "Please don't make me out to be the caped crusader, because I'm not. Anyone would do such a thing." Ross, you're our hero!