Exploring San Francisco through the lens of individual city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour.

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Blocker, No. 11: Capp St. in the Mission

We expect a lot from infamous Capp St. in the northern Mission, but a prim/proper-looking woman eating yogurt in a parked Mercedes-Benz with a license plate frame that reads “I’d rather be sailing” isn’t on the list of anticipated results.

After all, the diciest of dicey Mission side streets has a reputation to maintain. Shootings occur here on occasion - some very recently. And does anyone else remember when one Capp resident had it up to here with the street’s more unsavory elements and hurled rebar at Guido the Killer Pimp and a few of his direct reports several years ago? This isn’t exactly Presidio Heights.