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[UPDATE] Drunk Woman Attacks Local Restaurant Man With Stiletto and Cracks His Skull (San Francisco)
UPDATE: April 11th, 2012 @ 1:05 PM – The suspect has been identified thanks to the internet and social networking. The police are moving forward with an investigation and updates will follow if I hear any more information in regards to the situation and/or the suspect’s name.
Matt Meidinger, the general manager at Jasper’s Corner Tap & Kitchen and the former manager at Clock Bar is trying to find a belligerently drunk woman who slammed her stiletto onto his head before fleeing the scene in a cab. You would think everything would be fine, but Meidinger spent the night in the Emergency Room (or at least he tweeted that he did) on Saturday evening. He also stated that the reason for his ER visit was because the drunk blonde “cracked [his] skull”.
Grub Street contacted the victim, Matt Meidinger, who wrote into them and explained his side of the story, which happened outside the Balboa Café, and in front of several witnesses.
We wrapped up our one beer at Balboa and walked out to try and grab a cab. While standing there a woman (who I understand to have also just left Balboa) bent down to take off her black Louboutin‘s and put on flip flops for the trip home. As she was doing this (in the middle of a very busy sidewalk) a man passing by accidentally kicked one of her shoes. Not down the street or anything, just bumped it with his own shoe. She started yelling at him and as he turned around to apologize with his hands already up in the air a good sized man with her punched him! I was standing a few feet away and watched the whole thing happen. I spoke up and said, “Whoa! Take it easy! Kicking a shoe doesn’t equal a punch in the face, Louboutin’s or not!” As the guy turned around to tell me to mind my own business the woman ran up and said, “Yes, it does!” and came down on top of my head with her heels. Blood immediately started pouring down the left side of my face so I pulled out my phone and called the police. At that point another of her guys (she was with two men, both early 30′s between 6’2″ and 6’5″, 230-260lbs) ran over and told me to get off the phone. I said no and started to back away. He then punched me, grabbed my phone from me and threw it across the street. A random man on the street ran up and gave me his phone at that time insisting that I call the police back (This guy stayed the whole time, gave a thorough statement and did all he could to help. I don’t know his name, but I owe him a big thank you). At this point the two guys had both started fights with my two friends while I was running around on a strangers phone with the police while trying to keep an eye on the woman who was frantically running away. In the confusion, all three of them got away before the police had a chance to arrive.
Obviously, he is trying to find any information he cane, because someone has to cover the hospital bill as well as take responsibility for cracking a guy’s skull with her damn stiletto. It’s pretty impressive that she was able to hit him so hard, considering how drunk (according to many) she was. If you have any information at all, let Meidinger know, you can Contact him here. He’s offering a $500 reward.
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A Picasso Drawing Stolen by a Man Who Fled in a Cab
Brian Moylan —A well-dressed man walked into a San Francisco art gallery, took a $200,000 Picasso drawing off the wall, and walked out of the gallery and escaped in a waiting cab. Was that part of the plan or did we just find the least lucky cab driver/accessory to theft ever?
The drawing in question, “Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman),” is a cubist pencil drawing on a standard size piece of paper, so it’s small enough for someone to easily walk out of a gallery with it. What’s harder to imagine is why no one said anything as he just picked it up and took off. I don’t spend much time in art galleries, but I would think this would be a bit out of the ordinary.
The heist took place at the Weinstein Gallery, which tries to make famous works of art accessible to the public in the tourist-heavy Union Square section of town. The Picasso was hanging between a Chagall and a Dalí, neither of which were touched. But what kind of idiot allows the general populace easy access to art? Didn’t they know the rabble would do something like this? This is why we can’t have nice things!
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At first I was in awe that someone walked into a museum and was able to steal this drawing, hail a cab and get away unnoticed. Now I’m wondering what security was like and why there would be such valuable artworks in an area that is unsupervised? I mean, it’s not like this artwork could be easily replaced.
Then I started thinking about how ridiculous it is that this asshole did something like this. Museums and such places should be able to be visited without the worry that some idiot is going to do something like this! There’s a reason that most people have to pay now to get into places and why security cameras are being found everywhere. You’re ruining good things for the rest of us, and that pisses me off. Although, if it were me…I would have gone for the Dali piece 