Car Tipping

Flipped:

Authorities in San Francisco on Tuesday were looking for suspects who flipped four Smart cars.

Not feeling so Smart, now...

The small two-seat cars were flipped on their sides or roofs in an apparent vandalism spree Monday in two San Francisco neighborhoods. Police said they didn't know whether the incidents were a prank or another episode in escalating tensions among some residents who blame the tech industry for rising rents and cost of living.

"It's hard to determine a motive without any suspects identified or in custody," said Officer Gordon Shyy, a police spokesman who said the culprits would face felony vandalism charges.

The first car was found flipped on its roof around 1 a.m., and a second was spotted on its side a couple of blocks away about 10 minutes later in the city's Bernal Heights neighborhood, said Shyy. Police then discovered a third Smart car flipped on its trunk around 1:30 a.m. in the Portola neighborhood. A fourth car was found flipped on its side shortly after 9 a.m., also in Bernal Heights.

That's a really tough one there, Gordon. I'm going with a motive of three drunken pranks and a copycat. Don't think you'll be making Commissioner anytime soon. But let's go back to this:

some residents who blame the tech industry for rising rents and cost of living.

Yeah, that's a good idea; attack the only industry San Francisco has left to it. The denizens of that benighted place never have been the most observant sort. It is amusing, however, that the lefties are turning on their own at Google and Apple. Seems the high-and-mighty idealism goes out the window when there are not enough roofs to go around and the price of tofu goes through the... well, the roof. It's those dastardly economics, I tell ya! It's a conservative plot! BAN ECONOMICS!