When Pierre Pegeron saw flames shooting out the windows of the building across from his business Tuesday, he didn’t think -- he acted.
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A serial cabbie crook appears to have struck again in San Francisco on Monday.Last week, cops warned The City’s taxi drivers of an armed thug suspected in at least seven cabbie robberies since July 14. In the majority of the cases, the drivers were robbed after dropping the crook off on quiet, tree-lined Beideman Street in the Western Addition.
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San Francisco police are warning merchants about crooks paying for goods with counterfeit money.“Especially if you own a small business,” Northern Station police captain Ann Mannix recently Tweeted.Mannix pointed to the recent arrest of a woman who had 29 fake $20 bills on Fillmore Street.maldax@sfexaminer.com
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A person who was shot in the hip Saturday evening near Fillmore Street and Golden Gate Avenue is expected to survive, but the shooter remains on the loose.
According to San Francisco police, the victim, described as a male, walked in to the California Pacific Medical Center at Sacramento and Webster streets with a gunshot would around 6 p.m. after being dropped of by a cab.
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Urine trouble, lady!A woman was allegedly arrested Tuesday for kicking and urinating upon a brand new car that was parked directly in front of the police station at Turk and Fillmore streets.The owner was sitting in the car, talking on a cellphone at 10 p.m. when the deranged woman, a complete stranger, attempted to get in via the rear passenger door, police at Northern Station said.
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The owner of three conjoined Victorian flats in the Lower Haight is renting the units out as a residential hotel, but that has some neighbors a little miffed.David Nale has rented up to 15 well-manicured units at 124, 126 and 128 Fillmore St. on a monthly basis for at least four years. Now he is applying for a permit to change the building’s use from a three-dwelling unit to group housing.
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A San Francisco taxi driver was knocked out with a metal sign during a spat with a customer over cab fare Friday morning, police said.Police took a 46-year-old man into custody following the hack attack at Turk and Larkin streets around 3 a.m.After arguing over the fare outside the cab, a brawl broke out. The customer got a hold of a metal sign on the street and struck the cabbie in the head with it, knocking him unconscious, cops said.
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Cops are scratching their heads about a driver who allegedly struck a cyclist in the Western Addition and fled — even though the accident was not her fault.The driver even got out of her car to help the cyclist after Wednesday’s accident at the intersection of Fillmore and McAllister streets around 5:50 p.m.She fled before cops or an ambulance arrived, police at Northern Station said.It was not immediately clear whether drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.
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Two victims of a baseball bat beating and robbery took a cab to St. Francis Hospital Saturday morning, police said.The victims, men ages 23 and 24, got into an argument with two thugs in the area of Fillmore and O’Farrell streets around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.The thugs beat them with a baseball bat before fleeing with a wallet, cash, credits cards and a cell phone, police said.The victims’ injuries were not life threatening. There has been no arrest.
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It was worth a try.A 20-year-old man who was being robbed at a Muni bus stop early Wednesday morning handed two muggers just $1, then said “no” when the thugs asked him for more loot, according to police.The robbery occurred at Fillmore and Sutter streets at 12:25 a.m., police said.One of the two crooks then whipped out a knife, convincing the victim to give up more money, his wallet and his cell phone, police said.
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