Early this morning at around 4 a.m. someone "threw an incendiary device at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco," according to the Gate. Located at 1450 Laguna Street, the consulate wasn't affected too much, but its roll up garage door on Geary Street, it seems, was burned.

While no one knows exactly why the building was targeted, fire department Lt. Mindy Talmadge tells the Gate that "[t]he Arson Task Force is investigating this and of course it's a high profile building, so I'm sure the consulate will have some other agencies involved."

Update: NBC 11 says that "[i]Investigators suspect the building was targeted in connection with recent protests in Tibet where citizens are pushing for independence from China." No one was injured during the early morning incident.