| October 21, 2008 | - At the annual convention of the nation's mortgage bankers in San Francisco, protestors used bullhorns to heckle attendees and demanded a moratorium on foreclosures, and Karl Rove, appearing as a convention panelist, was accosted on stage by a hippie who tried to arrest him for treason. “We had streakers during the 1990s, but that was a joyful, happy thing,” said Gregor Lucas, a mortgage broker. “Now everyone is blaming us for everything.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 29, 2008 | - The Supreme Court overturned the 32-year ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., ruling 5-4 that there is a Second Amendment right to own a gun for personal use. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent that the court's ruling, its first on the Second Amendment in 70 years, showed a lack of “respect for the well-settled views of all of our predecessors on the court, and for the rule of law itself.” The National Rifle Association promptly brought lawsuits against five other cities with handgun bans, including San Francisco, Chicago, and Oak Park, Illinois. “It's just completely befuddling,” said the Oak Park village manager, “that our Supreme Court would be in alliance with the gangbangers.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
NPR
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| March 14, 2007 | -
San Francisco endorsed legislation to establish a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence.
| Source:
News Blaze
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| January 10, 2007 | - Members of the Baker's Dozen, an all-male Yale
a cappella group recuperating from injuries they suffered when a gang of prep school students attacked them on New Year's Eve, were asked by police to return to San Francisco to identify their assailants. “The kids are scared shitless,” said a father of one of the singers.
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
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| November 20, 2006 | - A San Francisco-based organization called for a “Global Orgasm for Peace.”
| Source:
AP via local6.com
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| November 16, 2006 | - A sea lion in San Francisco bit 14 people.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| March 26, 2006 | - In San Francisco over 25,000 teenagers gathered at AT&T Park for an evangelical Christian rally. "The devil's a pimp," said one 18-year-old attendee. "Don't be his ho."
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| January 5, 2006 | - In San Francisco an air passenger was arrested for having the words “suicide bomber” in his journal; it turned out that the words referred to the name of a band or a song.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 9, 2005 | - In San Francisco a group of lesbian motorcyclists successfully trademarked the name “Dykes on Bikes.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 12, 2005 | -
Chinese
porridge was increasingly popular in the San Francisco area.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| October 11, 2005 | - A nine-year-old boy swam from Alcatraz to San Francisco.
| Source:
News.com.au
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| May 29, 2005 | - There was a public masturbation festival in San Francisco.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 6, 2005 | - In San Francisco, twelve penguins died of chlamydia.
| Source:
AP
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| May 10, 2004 | - African clawed frogs were invading San Francisco.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 18, 2004 | -
Homosexuals were lining up to get married in San Francisco.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 6, 2001 | - An appeals court in San Francisco overturned a 50-year prison sentence of a shoplifter as cruel and unusual punishment.
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| October 30, 2001 | - Syphilis was on the rise in San Francisco.
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| October 23, 2001 | - There were fewer children in San Francisco.
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| April 3, 2001 | - Marjorie Knoller, a San Francisco lawyer whose dog Bane killed a young woman who lived next door, was indicted for second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and failure to control a mischievous animal that causes a death.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
San Francisco announced that it would pay for the sex-change operations of municipal employees.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Two stolen koala bears were recovered from a dung-filled San Francisco home; the koalas were stolen by two Vietnamese Buddhist
teenagers who broke into the San Francisco zoo through a skylight and tried to give the bears to their girlfriends, who rejected the gifts.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Leonard Downey, Jr., the executive editor of the Washington Post, reminded readers that in his tireless quest for objectivity, he does not vote, nor does he allow himself “to decide, even privately, which candidate would make the better president or member of the city council, or what position I would take on any issue.” San Francisco relaxed stringent graduation requirements after it was learned that thirty percent of the senior class would not graduate.
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