• 39-year-old Brian Wan was arrested under suspicion of driving while intoxicated after crashing his Tesla into a Muni train at Embarcadero and Broadway on Thursday evening. Wan and the train operator were taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, but none of the Muni passengers were reportedly injured. [KTVU]
DUI Tesla Driver Destroys Transit Stop (from /r/SanFrancisco)
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  • As the city of San Jose ramps up its campaign of arresting homeless people who decline multiple offers for shelter, a group of San Jose police officers were caught on video holding down and punching an unhoused man suspected of indecent exposure. The San Jose Silicon Valley NAACP filed a formal complaint over the officers’ use of excessive force and their dehumanizing behavior in which they made derogatory comments about the man's hygiene. [ABC7]
  • Alameda County Fire Department employee Kip Weber was arrested as part of a child sex predator sting in Modesto. The charges include attempted lewd acts with a child under 14, engaging in lewd communication with a minor, distributing harmful material to a minor and possession of child pornography. [CBS News]
  • Helicopters have been banned from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport after the January 29 collision between the passenger jet and Army helicopter. There have reportedly been an alarming number of near misses in recent years. [AP]
  • Nine-year-old Ben Lawson of Walnut Creek is the youngest person to speedrun BART and was recently featured in the New York Times for Kids, and a couple of large groups recently completed record-breaking speedruns as well. [BART]
  • Parts of the US are under threat of extreme weather conditions, including tornadoes in the east into the Mississippi Valley and Deep South with 80 mph winds causing at least 18 fatalities, blizzards in the North, and wildfires in the warmer, dry areas of the South. [CBS News]
  • Walk SF is holding a fundraiser called the Stair Walk Challenge on May 3, which is consists of a secret route with roughly 2,000 stair steps. [Walk SF]

Image: Have a Nice Ride; Leanne Maxwell/SFist

Update: This post and headline were updated with details on the Telsa-Muni crash after publishing.