File under Fun Crime News: Two homeless ne'er-do-wells who've been bumming around the Haight of late stole a U.S. Park Police golf cart from Fort Mason last week and went on an overnight crime spree. 29-year-old William Crosgrove and his 27-year-old, Pippi Longstocking-ish companion went tooling around the Panhandle and the Upper Haight breaking into cars and such, finally getting arrested around 8:30 a.m. after Crosgrove threatened a Dept. of Public Works employee with a metal pipe and a bicycle lock.

Pippi ended up handcuffed to a bench at the federal Parks station at Fort Mason, while Crosgrove got booked for assault, criminal threats, auto burglary and possessing stolen property. Pippi hasn't been charged, but may face charges as an accomplice in the golf cart theft.

The funniest part of the story is when a local man called in to the Parks office to report the pair, lamenting all the crime in the neighborhood and saying, "Now they've got golf carts!" [Bay City News/Examiner]