SF News Mission Gutter Set Ablaze (Video) ;center> Egads! On Sunday night in the Mission, unidentified rapscallion(s) set a gutter ablaze. Mission Mission's Ariel Dovas reports, "[S]omeone lit the northside gutter between Mission and San Carlos streets
SF News SFPD Announces Month-Long Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Coming on the heels of numerous recent pedestrian and cyclist deaths, SFPD will be conducting "pedestrian enforcement operations" throughout September. The operations will take place during peak traffic hours at various locations throughout
SF News Car Rams Tourist Bus In North Beach Unbeknown to them, a gaggle of tourists went through the city's Street of San Francisco live-action experience on Sunday. See, according to ABC 7, their double-decker bus collided with a vehicle in North
misc Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says 'No' to Burning Man Local photographer Troy Holden spotted this sign posted on the window of Enterprise on Folsom and Fourth streets. For obvious reasons.
SF News Newsom Announces City's Toyota Prius Partnership With Wild Gesticulation In front of City Hall at a "green vehicle showcase," Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced a partnership between San Francisco and Toyota to advertise their Prius plug-in hybrids. And, as with anything carrying
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via J.N.: "I do not understand the Saturday morning car washers of the Sunnyside. Man and woman, young and old, in all colors, they are out at dawn with a hose and
SF News Sharp Increase in Traffic Tix from SF Police According to the SFPD and San Francisco's Office of the Controller, the number of tickets has risen over the past two years, "an increase that is projected to add $1.2 million to
SF News Two Injured After Truck Plummets Down Twin Peaks Egads! Early Friday morning on Twin Peaks Boulevard, two people in a car went over a cliff and careened down a hillside in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. "A couple was up on viewpoint
misc Photo du Jour 581 "Grand Closing" by Dave Fayram. ("A Pontiac dealership that never really got started at all," he points out.) Hat tip: Uptown Almanac
misc SFist Out and About We were one of about three people snapping photos of this peachy electric vehicle with our phones today, which was spotted at Sutter and Leavenworth. After doing a little research, we found out
SF News Toyota Prius Recall Coming Due to a brake design problem, Toyota plans on recalling their popular Prius, a hybrid car popular with many smug yet eco-friendly Bay Area ilk. According to MarketWatch, around 270,000 vehicles will
SF News SUV Flip at 10th and Howard Just outside the VidSF offices at PariSoma in SOMA, an SUV was in an accident, causing it to flip over. Remarkably, no one was injured. And it happened before this morning's deluge. As
SF News <s>Auto Arsonist</s> Carsonist Takes the Night Off First, it's no longer the Auto Arsonist, it's "Carsonist" (TM: Eve Batey) which is way radder sounding. Second, he or she took the night off. The person(s) responsible for at least 12
SF News Auto Arsonist Map View Where have the cars been burned? in a larger map Created by executonsinfo Here's a handy map that shows where the dastardly Auto Arsonist has flicked his or her Bic. Since Saturday
SF News 4 More Autos Torched Last Night Last night, four more cars were immolated during the wee hours of the night. A little before 11:30 p.m. in the Bayview neighborhood at Newcomb Avenue and Selby Street, a car
SF News Toilet Torcher Trumped by Auto Arsonist A total of seven cars in San Francisco were set ablaze since Saturday. Early this morning, according to CBS 5/KCBS, "Arson investigators responded to the scene of two early morning car fires
SF News Use Pee to Power Your Car? Since people now swill the stuff, wash their hair with it. and even use it as a disinfectant (if you reacal, Monica used Chandler's to get rid of a nasty jellyfish sting, but
SF News Subtracting a Cash Lane, Adding a New FasTrak Lane on Bay Area Bridges Proposed Drivers without FasTrak, be sure to get one within the next year to avoid further cash bridge toll headaches. In an effort to decrease toll-collection costs, ease congestion, and encourage more drivers to
SF News Cars Torched in SF Over the last two days, according to the Chronicle, an arson spree set several vehicles ablaze in the early morning hours. Three of the fiery attacks, it seems, "happened this morning, all of
misc Someone Needs a Bottle of Goo Gone We keep noticing this Prius around town, particularly near 7th and Bryant, and we just want to buy this guy/gal one of those scraper tools and a bottle of Goo Gone so
SF News Was Your Car Damaged on Capp Street? If so, an SFist source, who saw what happened and asked to remain anonymous, writes in to tell us: Walking last night around 10:30 near Capp & 22nd I saw some guys
SF News Bay Area to Become the Electric Car Capital of the World While most of us who could afford an electric car are being handed pink slips, San Francisco and other Bay Area cities announced plans yesterday to make the Bay Ara the electric car
