Daughters bonding with father, but not in that Craigslist sort of way

Father's Day is that American holiday where it's time for kids to shut the hell up already and be thankful for all that their dad did or didn't do. There's really nothing you can accomplish in one day that'll make up for all the times he's bailed you out of jail or wrote you a check so that you could buy nice enough clothes so you could find a job and make your own damn money.

But if you ask us, the best gift you could give your father this weekend is refraining from using this one day as a chance to have some insane Craigslist-type sexcapade.

We cruised Craigslist looking to see what kind of crap people were trying to pawn off as potential Father's Day gifts. Instead, we found an overwhelming number of requests for Daddy Day hookups, hoping to make their old man proud.

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Karl the fog's parents reportedly had a steamy romance

It seems San Francisco's fog is even more shrouded in mystery after it penned its family history.

The physical fog rolls into the city for boring, scientific reasons, but mainly because of advection, which is just transference of heat, namely warm air moving across the cooler Pacific Ocean.

But the fog that many people know and love is named Karl, where, as profiled in this week's SF Weekly cover story, sprung to life on Twitter and even on Instagram.

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Never again...

There's a wonderful scene in Mel Brooks' original version of The Producers in which a jury foreman rises and states "We find the defendants incredibly guilty."

In related news, blogger Michael Petrelis this week pleaded no contest to charges stemming from his admitted attempt to photograph Supervisor Scott Wiener in the act of urinating and the blogger's subsequent posting of that photo on the Internet.

In a prepared statement, Petrelis admits that he "made a mistake" and "that mistake will never happen again." But he also essentially admits that he's learned nothing from this ordeal and his contrition is meaningless.

Let's start with the wording of his non-apology:

See Also: Law Prof Calls Petrelis Blog "Public Confession"

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If you love summer farmers' markets, but hate cars, then keep reading.

Perhaps you're summer plan is to stock your pantry with a Portlandia amount of pickles from every farmers' market in town. But you're not planning to cart your cache home by car, which means you're going to need some bike-friendly ways to pedal your produce home.

Here's a few:

Bags From Freight, Zugster, Rickshaw Bagworks, and more...
If you don't need to haul a bushel of corn, you can probably make due with a sturdy bag. The Bay Area is home to some of the finest bagmakers in the world, and while you might end up with a sweaty back, a backpack or a messenger pack is probably the least intrusive and least expensive way to increase your carrying capacity. A large bag from Freight, Zugster, Rickshaw, Mission Workshop, Chrome, or anywhere else, will probably fit more carrots than you can possibly carry.

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Yesterday, San Francisco police raided the Hayes Valley site now known as the Gezi Gardens, arresting seven tree-sitting who have been occupying the site of the former Hayes Valley Farm. Today, those same protesters are planning to march right back to the site, which they turned into an eco-village of sorts, and take it over.

According to a press release sent out last night, activists have attempted to contact Supervisor London Breed, with no response. So instead of waiting around for politics to work, the group is reconvening today at 6 p.m. to take over the land.

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Fred Noland

About a month ago, Robert Guerrero stood at the pinnacle of boxing-- in the ring, toe-to-toe with Floyd Mayweather Jr., the undefeated pound-for-pound champ.

He lost that fight, and no shame in that. But-- always the most asked question in boxing-- who to fight next?

Guerrero wants Victor Ortiz, the Oxnard, California slugger who lost to Mayweather in November 2011. Ortiz, apparently, is up for that. And Guerrero has the text messages to prove it.

See Also: Robert Guerrero Loses Unanimous Decision to Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Robert Guerrero and Floyd Mayweather Trade Moral Judgements as Fight Nears

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Wants more money

Just like BART employees, fruit pickers, janitors, and pretty much everyone else who isn't in the tech industry, newsmakers over at KRON4 are not happy with their paychecks.

Last week, contract negotiations between KRON4 employees -- represented by the SAG-AFTRA union -- and management broke down -- again.

It's been over a year since a contract for the roughly 30 employees represented by the union expired, and the issue is lingering like a story with no ending.

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Have you seen him?

The San Francisco Police Department is searching for a homeless man who reportedly assaulted someone in the Castro District earlier this month.

On June 8, sometime after midnight, the suspect was getting ready to hit the hay right in front of a residence on the unit block of Hancock Street when the victim approached him and asked that he find a new place to crash, police said.

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There are so many unanswered questions surrounding the May 10 incident in which 24-year-old Yeiner Perez stripped naked and attacked commuters at the 16th and Mission BART Station. Among them: Why was this man subsequently released from police custody and back into the world?

According to BART Deputy Police Chief Ben Fairow, Perez was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery; he had a psych evaluation and then he was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- which is now in the process of trying to deport Perez back to his native country. ICE officials would not reveal which country he's from.

Meanwhile, BART has issued a warrant for his arrest, and the District Attorney's Office is considering filing charges against Perez now that they have the footage of the May 10 incident that's been circulated widely across the Internet.

"He is not a citizen," Fairow tells us. "He is out of custody now but being monitored with a GPS [ankle] bracelet."

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Better than Bush -- on busting weed

Liberals and libertarians are sometimes uneasy bedfellows, but both have no shortage of reasons to fear, loathe and otherwise vote against mainstream Democrats, as the current imbroglio over the National Security Agency's spying program displays.

Here's another one: Under the administration of President Barack Obama, more money has been spent and nearly as many Americans thrown in prison over medical marijuana than was done under onetime favorite liberal punching bag George W. Bush, according to a pair of studies conducted by Americans for Safe Access and California NORML, both released today.

In that span, federal prosecutors have amassed a remarkable record: 90 percent of medical marijuana cases have resulted in convictions, an effective use of the $300 million spent on enforcing federal drug laws in medical marijuana states.

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Which one of them doesn't belong?

People are claiming they've spotted the infamous Yeiner Perez (or at least someone with the same big hair) performing his circus stunts for tourists on the Embarcadero.

SFist posted this video that came from a reader who says he bumped into Perez on stilts, and this time, he was clothed, which is one reason we can't be 100 percent certain it's Perez. Although, as SFist points out, the costume he's wearing in the video is similar to some you'll find in his Facebook photos.

See what you think:

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Julius Komjati, 1930

Everyone must do his part...

Anyone who passed out in a drunken stupor on a city street and awoke to discover this story about San Francisco's burgeoning alcoholism rate in a nearby Examiner can label himself a newsmaker.

Per the story -- and this troubling data -- San Francisco's rate of alcohol-related emergency room visits has popped like a champagne cork. Between 2006 and 2008, 43 hospital visits for every 10,000 city residents were due to overdrinking. Between '09 and '11, however, that tally jumped to 61.

There's no way to spin this as a good thing -- but it's important what manner of bad messages are imparted. First off, a no-brainer: The data reveals that the number of city residents not visiting the ER in a drunken haze has dropped from 9,957 out of 10,000 to 9,939. So, yes, alcohol-fueled visits have jumped by 42 percent (scary). But the overall rate has only risen from 0.4 percent to 0.6 percent (less so).

The other conclusion is that San Francisco likely isn't housing a greater number of alcoholics than in yesteryear, but, rather, the city's alcoholics are drinking themselves into stupors more aggressively.

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Twitter pic from @Quinn5862

A fire interrupted lunchtime at Boudin's Bakery on the Wharf where tourists were undoubtedly enjoying breadbowls and oysters.

Firefighters responded to the blaze at about 1 p.m. which apparently started in the restaurant's flue -- the vent above the oven.

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Not the kind of show you expect to see at the circus

For those of you who have been tracking the latest bizarreness at the 16th Street BART station where a naked 24-year-old Yeiner Perez was caught on video spitting and wailing on commuters as he performed handstands on the transit turnstiles, here's the latest news: His circus troupe fired him.

SF Weekly received an e-mail from Clowns Not Bombs, the non-profit circus troupe where Perez had worked, informing us that they terminated his employment.

See Also: Even BART Agents are Terrified, Grossed Out by BART

Here's the full statement:

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#fuckme

If you're anything like us, then you #fuckinghatehashtags. Unfortunately, they're only becoming more, not less, tired.

And if you were a purist who only engaged in Facebook, in part because hashtags did nothing except make people look dumb and spammy, then your days of discovering pointless information (what Suzy had for lunch or how many times Dave barfed after he left the bar) without the aid of the overused hashtag are long gone.

The social media giant, perhaps in attempt to stay relevant, announced on its blog last night that it will now let users hashtag all their thoughts.

Per the blog:

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The eco-village pre-raid

Update 12:16 p.m.: Sgt. Dennis Toomer gives more details about this morning's raid and what happens next. Read update at the bottom.

Original Story 7:09 a.m.: The cops were busy last night. About an hour after responding to a double homicide in Sunnydale, San Francisco police raided the former site of the Hayes Valley Farm where tree-loving occupiers have staged a protest since early this month.

The cops arrived at about 1:30 a.m. to break-up the tree-sitting occupy protesters who have blocked the city from removing trees there to make way for new 182-unit housing complex. Seven people were arrested, and one person was injured after jumping from a tree, said Sgt. Dennis Toomer.

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Update 12:31 p.m.: Medical authorities have identified the victims as 22-year-old Tantrell Crawford and 27-year-old Deshawn Byes.

Original story 6:40 a.m.: Two men were shot to death early this morning in the city's Sunnydale neighborhood, police said.

Officer Albie Esparza says police were called to the intersection of Santos Street and Blythedale Avenue at about 12:48 a.m. on reports of a shooting.

When they arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

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Muni riders have had an unusually bad streak of luck as of late.

Yesterday evening, a 68-year-old woman was punched and robbed by a group of female teens while riding Muni; earlier that afternoon, a bus passenger lost it and reportedly stabbed two riders and two police officers before being hauled to jail, according to the Ex.

Then today, two Muni buses crashed, injuring 15 people, including seven kids.

Kinda makes the $2 fare seem like less of a bargain, doesn't it?

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Who else is going to buy a Liza Minnelli ice sculpture???

In a city awash in all things gay, perhaps nobody is waiting for the Supreme Court's June ruling on Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, more than wedding planners.

In fact, many San Francisco businesses are pretty well-versed on planning gay weddings, since they've been assisting same-sex marriage ceremonies all along, albeit on a smaller scale.

See Also: Even Rush Limbaugh Thinks Gay Marriage Will Happen

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Dina Boyer via Twitter

Update 1:18 p.m.: Muni Spokesman Paul Rose confirmed that 15 people were transported to the hospital with minor or moderate injuries, including seven school kids. Others were treated at the scene and released. Traffic is moving on Market Street again.

Original Story 11:55 a.m.:
Fire crews are at the scene of a Muni crash where a bus collided with a trolley car in downtown, injuring 19 people, including a group of students reportedly on a school field trip.

According to Muni, the accident happened at about 11 a.m. when a F-Line trolley and a 9L-San Bruno collided near Sixth and Market streets.

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