The grossest news of the day comes out of San Francisco, where officials say that a prime reason escalators in their BART public transit stations break down is the voluminous amounts of human excrement that "gum up" their gears.
This is why people get angry with their public officials: The best advice from a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman to commuters stranded by a fire that stopped train service was "take a nice day off and enjoy the sunshine."
Leaked photos of a semi-naked Linton Johnson go too far, some in Anonymous say
Agency uses a disruptive but less controversial technique to handle protests
The hacktivist collective is urging people to crowd a San Francisco station at rush hour
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