The SFPD arrested the guy who murdered the anti-crime activist in the Haight, Joe Konopka, in an S&M session gone wrong. They believe Konopka, who was found handcuffed, choked to death on plastic covering his face. After Konopka died, the murderer took his laptop, jewelry, and cell phone before fleeing the scene.

Does anyone know what happened at 16th and South Van Ness Wednesday night? We walked by there around 9 p.m. and there were like eight cop cars, an ambulance, and two fire trucks at the gas station, with lights flashing and sirens going. We can't find any reports about it online but now we're totally curious.

And this is sort of out of our coverage area, but you know we have a morbid fascination with animal hoarders. A woman near Scotts Valley was found with 83 cats, 3 dogs, and 2 iguanas -- and no litter boxes. Animal care and control officers reported cat feces piled up to four feet high in the small three-bedroom house, you could smell the house down the street, and one officer said he just threw away all his clothes after cleaning the place out (good move). They caught 33 of the cats, have set humane traps to catch the remaining 50, and the woman is still living in the house. She told the officers that she'd gotten all the cats from her work with local rescue groups, and all of them were spayed or neutered. Wow -- it's one thing to get to 83 cats by getting two and not spaying or neutering them, but it is entirely another to go out and affirmatively 83 cats.

Picture of one of the two iguanas confiscated by the Scotts Valley SPCA from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

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