Vandals in black hoods flip Smart cars in San Francisco

[Street Guardian USA]

Good thing mine is parked in a private garage these days. Even if all these owners had a cam with parking mode it sounds like they were all in disguise.

Vandals flip Smart cars in Bernal Heights, Excelsior districts in San Francisco.

http://m.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/vandals-target-smart-cars-san-francisco/nfTJb/

Photos of the damage cars

http://m.ktvu.com/gallery/news/crime-law/smart-cars-targeted-tipping-san-francisco/gCJ4Z/

"SAN FRANCISCO —

Vandals in black hooded sweatshirts were out early Monday morning flipping Smart cars in San Francisco's Bernal Heights and Excelsior neighborhoods, according to police.

Three Smart cars, small two-seaters designed to be fuel-efficient and easy to park in tight spaces, were found flipped between 1 and 1:30 a.m. within about 10 blocks of each other, police Officer Gordon Shyy said.

The first was found at about 1 a.m. in the 200 block of Anderson Street. That car had been flipped onto its roof, Shyy said.

Police then found a second Smart car flipped onto its side a few blocks away at Anderson Street and Ogden Avenue.

Then the vandals apparently moved across Interstate Highway 280 into the Excelsior and flipped a third car there onto its end, Shyy said.

Police responded to that call at about 1:30 a.m. and found the car at Bowdoin and Sweeny streets.

One witness told KTVU he saw a group of eight people in hooded sweatshirts walk up to his roommate’s smart car and flip it vertically.

"First off, I was shocked. It was a little bit just like silly in my mind at first, said SF resident Brandon Michael. "[It was] definitely an act of vandalism."

All of the cars sustained shattered windows and body damage. The vehicles were placed back on their wheels and towed away.

The car tipping is being investigated as an act of felony vandalism and police are seeking multiple suspects who Shyy only described as wearing black hooded sweatshirts.

German auto manufacturer Smart Automobile started producing the tiny cars in the late 1990s. The cars have grown in popularity in San Francisco in recent years for their good gas mileage and ability to fit in tight parking spots.

"Smart car tipping" as a prank has existed almost as long as the Smart cars themselves, with numerous posts on social media showing photos and videos of the roughly 1,600-pound cars tipped on their sides, roofs or ends."

 

[kamkar]

Fking aholes
Hope they catch them and the judge is this one.

 

[Alan Collinge]

I must admit, when we were teanagers back in the 60's, we used to pick up little 3 wheeler cars and turn them round so they were facing in the oppoite direction, but we didn't cause any damage, unlike the smart ar5e smart car flippers.

 

[kamkar]

When i was in school to "took" the head masters daugthers morris mini and push/pulled it up a wide chute that was on the jungle gym in the school yard.

It was mainly kids from the larger classes who did most of the lifting and pulling, and it took a crane to get the little car down again.

One of my best memories from school

I have done a little vandalisem as a kid, but never totalling cars and there have allways been other kids who where much worse

As a marriage prank me and some friends have disassembled a skoda 105 car, and put it back together in a small living room in a house.
The skoda was only bolted together, it took a couple of days before the bride and groom had ther living room cleared out

 

[Alan Collinge]

Haha, loved the Skoda story. I bet the bride and groom were shocked. They probably still talk about it.

 

[kamkar]

Havent seen either of them in ages, it turned out they where not the kind of ppl i wanted to hang out with.
We had to take a large windown out ( frame and all ) to get the larger skoda parts into the living room from the garden side of the house.
But offcourse we put the window back in and sealed it so it wasent easy to see it came in that way

Its allways worth while to make sure ppl remember ther wedding, if not for the wedding itself then for the surprise when they get home.

 

[Alan Collinge]

Its allways worth while to make sure ppl remember ther wedding, if not for the wedding itself then for the surprise when they get home.

I couldn't agree more. It was a good idea.