The abundance of citizen journalists (heh) is one of the many reasons we love San Francisco. So imagine our delight when sharp-tongued local photoblogger The Tens caught an Alamo Square neighbor "John" (not his real name, we presume) taking the junker pictured here out for a drunken joyride yesterday evening. Tens fills us in on the story, which you won't find in today's Examiner:

This is John’s car parked in front of his apartment building on Broderick at Golden Gate. John decided to take it out for a spin early this evening while shitfaced. He came flying by me on Fulton at the top of Alamo Square, somehow managing to fit his car between the one I was driving and the parked cars to my right by driving in the bike lane. There wasn’t enough room for him to fit by the car in front of me, so he swerved into oncoming traffic and barely missed disaster. He swerved back into the right lane, swiping two cars in the process.

From there, our unpaid correspondent followed the trail of skidmarks and police sirens to found John's vehicle literally smoldering on the sidewalk. Apparently, the perpetrator had done another lap around the block before he "parked, and very nonchalantly got out of the car with a bottle of vodka, then sauntered into the building just before the cops arrived."

The incident, as you might imagine, ended in an arrest. Good work, gumshoe.