SFist Blotter

Oh, you gotta check out the picture of this on the front page of the Chron this morning. So a tourist is visiting our fair city, driving a rented SUV. You know how it is when you rent a car -- whoops, I accidentally turned on the windshield wipers, are those my fog lights?, etc. Well, this tourist smells a funny smell and notices that his emergency brake has been on the entire time he's been tooling around Russian Hill. Well, he stops on a scenic block, fiddles with it, and finally gets the brake off. As soon as he turns off the brake, though, the car starts rolling backwards downhill. Guess where he is? Lombard and Hyde -- the crookedest street in the world!! (yes, we know that street in Potrero is actually crookeder.) He loses control of the SUV trying to navigate the turns backwards, it flips over, and he and his daughter have to break their way out of the window. They're both fine, or we wouldn't be giggling so hard.

In our two other obligatory crime listings, Anna Ayala the Finger Lady is reporting that people are sending her anti-Hispanic mail, and there was a murder in the Mission at 20th and Folsom last night.