Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cat + Ceiling Fan Light = Fun Here's the briefest, most perfect palate cleanser for you this gray afternoon. It's a mere animated GIF in fact. Enjoy. [bebelstrange via WOW]
SF News Pedestrian Killed By Car On Lombard A man was stuck and killed while walking across Lombard Street on Saturday. The Chronicle reports: "Thomas Ferguson, 45, was crossing midblock between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street around 8:45 p.
SF News Reddit Fame Costs Tech Writer His License Plate David Murphy has a problem. It's not a big problem, but it's a problem. It's his license plate. A lot of people think that, after looking at it, he's a troll. Wrong! His
SF News NYT Now Intrigued By Our Demand-Based Parking System The front page of the New York Times website right now is a story about San Francisco's new demand-based, variably priced parking system, which they claim is already making parking spots easier to
SF News Falling Tree Causes Wrecks, Man's Death On Highway 13 A multi-car crash on Highway 13 Thursday morning resulted in several car wrecks and the death of an 18-year-old Washington man. The tree crashed down onto southbound traffic near Park Boulevard in Oakland
Arts & Entertainment Prank: Couch On A Car Friend of SFist and Curator owner, Stacy Rodgers, was surprised to find a gently-used leather love seat atop the roof of her car this morning in the Mission near General Hospital. The silly
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Daytona 500 Winner Matt Kenseth Visits Fisherman's Wharf The majority of San Francisco doesn't care much for car racing, we can safely assume. It's more geared toward a different type of audience. More or less. But that didn't stop Daytona 500
SF News Car Plows Through Occupy Demonstrators At UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz students and professors are taking part today in a massive protest to state education cuts. It's all part of peaceful Occupy Education rallies occurring at numerous UC and CSU schools,
SF News Luxury Car Drivers Are Jerks, Says UC Berkeley Study Here's a big news flash that ought to blow some minds: According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley, people who drive expensive cars in the Bay Area are four times
SF News Downtown SF Plays Host To Fatal Hit-Run At around 4 a.m. Sunday morning at the corner of Battery and California Streets, a hit-run incident occurred, one that resulted in a fatality. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "Police were
SF News Photo: Large Naked Woman Stomps On Car In Noe Valley [NSFW] A woman described as "heavyset" and naked except for her shoes was pulled off the J-Church line on Tuesday morning, and while cops and medical personnel were evaluating her near the intersection of
SF News Around 50 Homemade Bombs Found In Sonoma County Car During a routine traffic stop in Sonoma county on Tuesday, Robert Justin Vasseur, 22, was taken into custody after cops found him driving with a suspended license. Cops also found 49 homemade bombs
SF News Lombard: Car Injures Two Pedestrians At the corner of The Embarcadero and Lombard Street on Sunday night, a vehicle hit not one but two pedestrians. According to SF Appeal, "One of the two struck was in serious condition
SF News Woman Critically Injured During Mission Hit-Run A 47-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injures after being hit at Mission and 13th Streets on Monday. According to SF Appeal, "The truck left the scene afterward but was stopped in the city's Ingleside
SF News Woman In Black Lexus Drives Into Ocean Beach Police and lookiloos are wondering why a woman drover her black Lexus into the waters at Ocean Beach. The unidentified female apparently drove through a parking spot, the beach entrance, and down the
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: I Drive Everywhere by D. Hanousek As I switched on the gas to run down to Safeway (three short, but steep blocks away) to buy the required Italian-flavored breadcrumbs to make Cauliflower a la Basso's, I
Arts & Entertainment Merits Of SFPD, NYPD Patrol Cars Debated In the latest New York vs. San Francisco pissing contest, noted New York startup wunderkind David Karp fired the first shot taking our fair city's choice of police patrol vehicles, "the most busted
SF News Bay Bridge Closure During Presidents' Day Weekend Commuters will not be able drive on the upper deck towards San Francisco during Presidents' Day Weekend due to construction. The closure will start at 8 p.m. Friday, February 17 and last
SF News Car Hits, Injures Cyclist In The Mission A little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, a four-door Toyota sedan hit a cyclist riding at 17th and Valencia streets. "The full extent of the bicyclist's injuries was not immediately known,
SF News Arrest Made In Ghoulish Richmond District Hit-Run The man who allegedly and intentionally mowed down a former Marine and Cal Fire firefighter was arrested on Wednesday morning. The suspect's name is Eduardo Shaparo Esquivel, 22, and he hails from South
SF News SUV Hits Pedestrian, Temporarily Shuts Down Geary Boulevard Eastbound Geary Boulevard between 9th and 11th Avenues closed temporarily this morning after a vehicle-pedestrian collision. According to SF Appeal, "a 70 year old male was struck by a Toyota SUV at 10th
SF News San Jose Minivan Buyer Accidentally Purchases $500,000 Worth of Cocaine In San Jose, a suburban psychologist who bought a used Chrysler minivan for $14,000 in cash ended up driving around for 15 months with half a million dollars in Colombian marching powder
Arts & Entertainment Sassy Guy in Elmo Shirt Goes Off on KRON's 'Lazy, Fatass' Stanley Roberts Sing-song voiced Stanley Roberts met his match recently during a segment for KRON 4's addictive People Behaving Badly. Filming law enforcement ticketing titularly bad drivers, one sassy law breaker sporting an Elmo t-shirt
SF News Video: Pedestrian Intentionally Hit By Car During Occupy Oakland Strike? The following footage (via KTVU) shows a pedestrian being hit by car in downtown Oakland during the general strike. While, of course, the pedestrian could have moved and not slammed the hood of
SF News Driver High on PCP Hits Pedestrians Egads, people. A driver flying high on PCP last Friday ran into two pedestrians near City College. "Officers arriving at the scene of the crash in the 400 block of Geneva Avenue at
