While working at Fifth and Market streets, an unidentified 35-year-old man was verbally accosted and then attacked by a passerby. According to the Gate: [T]he unidentified suspect approached and began to shout slurs and insults at the campaigner, who listened, thanked the man for his views and asked him to leave ... The angry man complied, but quickly returned and pulled out a knife and slashed the victim in the face The attacker was......

Remember the lady who was shot several times in her Mission district apartment? Well, the victim, Teresa Sheehan, 56, "lunged at officers with a knife" before officers turned her into the female 50 Cent. According to the Gate, "[t]he officers pepper-sprayed Sheehan, but she continued to verbally threaten them and began lunging at them with a knife," which is when gunfire came into play. Sheehan is expected to survive. (SFGate)......

Over at the Niles Banquet Hall in Fremont on Saturday night, five men were stabbed (while a sixth suffered a serious head injury) after five uninvited guests tried crashing a wedding. After being asked to leave, it seems, the creeps got brutal after one member of the clan pulled out a knife. According to the Oakland Tribune, "one victim was found lying facedown on the sidewalk and stabbed in the back several times. Another......