From the Stinque Crime Blotter, San Francisco Values

Bad Encounters With a Trick for $400, Alex

Alex Trebek, host of the game show Jeopardy, was injured early Tuesday as he chased a burglar at the Marriott Marquis hotel in San Francisco. The no longer mustachioed Trebek managed to rally later on Wednesday to be a judge in National Geographic’s geography bee at Googleplex Ground Zero 40 miles down the Peninsula.*

According to Trebek: “It happened at 2:30 a.m., chasing a burglar down the hallway of my San Francisco hotel, when my Achilles tendon ruptured and I then fell on carpet, bruising the other leg in process. Surgery on Friday.”

A 56-year-old suspect, Lucinda Moyers of San Francisco, was arrested. Purses and wallets taken from Mr. Trebek’s room were found by the ice machine.

[SF Chronicle]

* No information was provided as to whether on Wednesday morning Mr. Trebek hopped on one of those annoying private buses that clog the streets of the Mission and the Castro ferrying hipsters down 101 to the Googleplex — buses that cause your SF correspondent to engage what is referred to as “The Jersey Horn” and “The Jersey Finger” in driving education parlance.

SanFranLefty
1:24 am • Thursday • July 28, 2011
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San Francisco Values

Happy Birthday, Harvey

Today would have been Harvey Milk’s 81st birthday and in a fitting gesture, the nonprofit Trevor Project, which provides suicide prevention counseling services to LGBT youth, opened the Harvey Milk Call Center at 575 Castro Street, which was the home of Milk’s camera shop and campaign headquarters in the ’70s, and where he occasionally received calls from gay youth seeking hope and validation. The San Francisco call center will handle overnight calls to the Trevor Project’s suicide prevention hotline.

And in another fitting present for Milk, the WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS San Francisco Giants announced that the team will be filming a video for the “It Gets Better” campaign to prevent gay suicides and to stop bullying of LGBT youth. They are the first professional sports team to do so.

[Bay Area Reporter: Trevor Project Opens SF Call Center]

SanFranLefty
9:09 pm • Sunday • May 22, 2011
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Bad Encounters With a Trick for $400, Alex

[SF Chronicle]

Happy Birthday, Harvey

[Bay Area Reporter: Trevor Project Opens SF Call Center]

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