The trains around San Francisco (the BART, or “Bay Area Rapid Transit”) is a mess tonight, as it is most nights. Just ask anyone from San Francisco! Tonight is such a mess, though, that whoever runs the @SFBART Twitter account decided to be very honest with its indignant followers.

A San Francisco resident infected with measles traveled to and from work on the BART train for three days—possibly exposing tens of thousands of people, according to reports.

The mangled hell cat pictured above has had a shitty week. First, the cat—named Bart—was hit by a car. Then, thinking his cat was dead, Bart's owner buried him. But Bart wasn't dead.

BART cops, apparently tired of shooting at unarmed men and tasing children, are now shooting each other.

Oakland, California, is both the robbery capital of America and one of the country's most expensive places to live. In acknowledgement of this dystopian situation, BART police will escort you and your holiday gifts from the train station to your car. Or, they may shoot you for no reason at all.

Between the naked acrobats assaulting riders and the commute-disrupting strikes, San Francisco's BART is quickly usurping the mantle of Most Obnoxious Transit System away from far more deserving candidates such as NYC's MTA and Boston's MBTA.

A tipster just emailed us to say that his girlfriend Stephanie was walking around Sue Bierman Park in San Francisco's Financial District today and happened across a creepy-masked busker who looked strangely familiar.

The naked man who was filmed running wild through San Francisco's 16th Street BART Station last month was identified late yesterday as 24-year-old Yeiner Garizabalo, a former circus acrobat who apparently suffered a nervous breakdown.

Extended footage of the May 10th incident involving a "naked, spitting and pissing dude" on (what appears to be) a drug-fueled rampage inside San Francisco's 16th Street BART station surfaced online yesterday, and it's pretty intense — even by naked, spitting and pissing dude rampage standards.

Online attack mob Anonymous famously built software enabling basically anyone to launch a denial of service attack and help crash a website. Now the group has point-and-shoot software for hijacking Twitter threads, too. Is nothing sacred?

Hopefully no one plans to leave downtown San Francisco this evening, because the whole area is set to be consumed in an angry four-way rage fest over the BART subway system, a fest that now includes a counterprotest in support of a BART official whose nude photo was leaked by protesters.

Anonymous has declared war on San Francisco's commuter subway system, BART. They've staged protests and hacked website, but a leak of nude pics of a BART spokesman has taken things to another, more personal level.

One week ago, for the duration of rush hour, officials shut down all four downtown San Francisco BART stations — the heart of the commuter subway system — in response to a small protest by Anonymous. Today, the hacktivists are back. Whether the chaos returns is up to BART.

Anonymous isn't done with San Francisco's BART yet. After a leak of BART passenger data and a real-life protest in retaliation for BART cutting cell service in their stations to squelch protest, Anonymous has leaked what it claims are the email addresses, passwords, and addresses of 102 BART officers. [Photo via Getty]

San Francisco subway system BART thought that cutting off cell phone signals last week would help it avoid trouble with protesters. Instead, it re-inflamed demonstrations and brought in the feds to boot.

It's been a busy weekend for the hacking collective known as Anonymous. Their Operation Fullerton may not have panned out, but Project BARTway was a rousing success. (If you measure success in Thousands of Civilians' Personal Information Being Compromised in the Name of Free Speech.) As they had warned, Anonymous has infiltrated Bay Area Rapid Transit System on Sunday, unfurling their pirate flag logo on the homepage of myBART.com — a promotional website — and, more disconcertingly, releasing the personal information of thousands of myBART.com users.

It's not just the London police and Middle East dictators who try to curb unrest by clamping down on communications networks. According to reports, police in San Francisco are jamming cell phones to head off protesters.

Former BART officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed an unarmed man in a subway station in 2009, was released from jail today after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter. That seems totally fair.

Johannes Mehserle, the Oakland BART cop who shot an unarmed passenger, has been sentenced to 2 years in prison.

Fifty people have been arrested in Oakland in protests following the involuntary manslaughter verdict for BART cop Johannes Mehserle, according to Oakland police. Hopefully OPD can tell the difference between their tasers and their guns. [Pic via ABC7]