Okay, in the Sam Hill is going on here? Nicholas Faibish's mother, crazed from the constant media attention, announced in the Sunday Chron that welllllll, she might have known there was a problem with her family's killer pit bulls, because she LOCKED HER SON IN THE BASEMENT while she ran out to run errands to keep him away from the dogs. What th--??? And put a shovel in front of the basement door?? Huh? "He had a TV and a bathroom and video games down there," she says. She also speculates that Nicholas somehow broke free of the basement and went upstairs, saw the dogs mating, and somehow set them off (though she was, of course, not there at the time.) "I used to say to Ella, just go ahead and let him do it. Get it over with."

Okay, this doesn't look good. And the DA's office is now not commenting about whether or not charges will be pressed. And it is San Francisco, so there's always a weird story behind dog maulings. But we have to say, we're not sure if it's more disturbing to see this spacy mom talking about, say, how the female dog used to lick off all of Mrs. Faibish's makeup (?????) -- or if it's more disturbing to see our local news media running up to the house of a family that just lost their son with mikes and booms and cameras and pounding on the door, shouting, "DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT?" and thus provoking these weird statements in the first place.

We're going to declare this one a draw for now. (and sit here, smugly judging the media for giving us, depressingly, exactly what we wanted to know.)

Picture of Maureen Faibish from ABC 7 News

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