We're a little late to this story, in part because we spent all day yesterday trying to separate out the hilarious comments from the offensive ones on SFGate.com (it looks like the homophobic ones have already been taken out as of today) -- but in a nutshell, last Friday, Lance Farber, the 47-year-old boyfriend of the city's new planning director John Rahaim trashed their temporary apartment, which the city put them up in and which is located in the ceremonial fire chief's house in downtown SF.

Farber broke up some antique furniture, smeared crushed tomatoes on the walls, set a mattress on fire, and then fled the scene, after which he was arrested on a DUI in San Mateo County. In case you were wondering, fire chief Joanne Hayes-White (who's had some strange domestic violence incidents of her own) does not live at the ceremonial fire house. No one was hurt in the fire, but the damages are estimated at $100,000. Will the city have to pay for that?

Rahaim just started as the new SF Planning Director this January, and he previously worked in Seattle to increase the amount of open space in their downtown. Farber is some kind of new age chiropractor. Fire Chief Hayes-White, along with Supervisor Bevan Dufty, are now saying maybe they shouldn't be using historic landmarks as temporary housing for SF officials in the future.

We're not even sure what to make of this. Were the tomatoes organic? And why can't they give Ed Jew a temporary apartment too if he needs city housing so bad?

Picture of the ceremonial fire house from KCBS.