Group of Singers Attacked for Singing Star-Spangeled Banner, In SF.

It's stories like this that made you wish the San Andreas fault were moving West:

Members of the Baker's Dozen, the renowned, all-male a cappella singing group from Yale, are pummeled outside a New Year's Eve party after singing "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The attackers allegedly include graduates from Sacred Heart Cathedral, one of the city's oldest and best-known private schools.

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The 16 singers showed up late to the party wearing preppy sport jackets and ties, and launched into "The Star-Spangled Banner."

A couple of uninvited guests started mocking them, and allegedly the words "faggot" and "homo" were tossed -- and so were a couple of punches.

The loud noise drew relatives from next door, who promptly ordered the house cleared.

The Yale kids, most of whom were staying with a family a block away, began heading home.

But witnesses said one of the uninvited guests -- who happens to be the son of a prominent Pacific Heights family -- pulled out his cell phone and said, "I'm 20 deep. My boys are coming."

According to Rapagnani and others, the Yale kids barely made it around the corner when they were intercepted by a van full of young men.

"They were surrounded, then tripped -- and when they were on the ground, they were kicked," Rapagnani said.

According to police reports, the cops arrived about 12:40 a.m. to find 20 people fighting in the street.

To the police, who were out in force to keep a lid on New Year's, it looked like just another drunken brawl.

But according to Rapagnani, "This was not a fight -- it was an attack."

Four of the alleged assailants were detained at the scene, then released after the cops took their names.

Meanwhile, Sharyar Aziz Jr. was taken by paramedics to San Francisco General Hospital, and later had to undergo reconstructive surgery in New York for a broken jaw that will remain wired shut for eight weeks.

Another unidentified Yale student sought treatment for a concussion, and a third for a swollen ankle and other abrasions.

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Now authorities want the Yale students -- who have left San Francisco and will soon be back in school -- to return to the city to identify their attackers.

But dad Aziz said arranging their return won't be easy.

"The kids are scared s -- less of coming back to San Francisco,'' he said. "I'm just really frustrated.'

A few things: one, only in a city that outlaws guns and military recruiting, while at the same time celebrating homosexuality, bigamy, beastiality and various other forms of debauchery, do you get violent atacks on patriots in which the attackers scream homophobic slurs. Two, what the Hell does "I'm 20 deep mean?" and three, what's the world coming to when there are people "scared s---tless of coming back to San Francisco" for reasons other than disease?

Sick. These people had better be convicted.

I here tell that there are pictures and video here, for people who are interested.

Ultramontane, 6.37pm: Seems to me this could easily have been an intended "hate" crime against gays. They are an all male a cappella group who were wearing "preppy sport jackets and ties," plus the words "faggot" and "homo" were thrown around. However, it is San Fransisco, and the attackers were preps, so the intended target was more likely patriots than gays.