So hey, remember that shooting that Ross Mirkarimi helped solve? According to the Chron, the cops are saying it was a vigilante father-son duo, out for revenge after the victim stole a gold chain from the son. Whoa!

The son was walking to school when a group of young men held him up and took his gold chain. The son then called his father, who drove to the scene with his wife. People heard gunfire, and then the guy who stole the chain fell down in a crosswalk. The father then hit the guy three times with his car, breaking the victim's pelvis. Then the father jumped out of the car and yelled at the son to "finish him," at which point the son fired two or three shots at him.

Turns out Ross Mirkarimi wasn't the only person who saw this; the police say there were numerous witnesses on the scene. For what it's worth, the father says while he did hit the victim three times, it was all an accident because his transmission got stuck. The victim, who was (ironically enough) supposed to appear in court later that day on a gun charge, may never walk again. The father and son have both been charged with attempted (see comments) murder (and the father with cocaine possession); the father also has a rap sheet of his own.

These vigilante stories always make us very nervous -- but we'll go ahead and illustrate this post with a picture of the poster from the new Jodie Foster movie anyways.