An intruder got an unpleasant peppery surprise when she crawled into a sixth floor apartment Wednesday, police said. The resident of the apartment pepper-sprayed the 33-year-old woman who tried to break-in at around 4:30 p.m., police said. The suspect entered through the patio, which she accessed via the roof, cops said.The 56-year-old resident of the apartment was none-too-happy to see the stranger, police said.
Jerry Springer was not sighted in San Francisco on Tuesday — but two potential guests on his popular television show were in plain view, police said.The men were viciously fighting in the middle of the street on Sunnydale Avenue around 5:23 p.m. They were brawling “because one of the men is dating the other’s mother,” police said.
Dirty thieves stole a power washer from the garage of a Financial District office building during the peak rush hour on Tuesday morning, police said.At around 6 p.m., one of the two suspects was captured on security cameras riding a red bicycle into the garage inside the 48-story 345 California Center.The crook returned a few moments later with an accomplice to claim the power washer, police said.
It was worth a try.A 20-year-old man who was being robbed at a Muni bus stop early Wednesday morning handed two muggers just $1, then said “no” when the thugs asked him for more loot, according to police.The robbery occurred at Fillmore and Sutter streets at 12:25 a.m., police said.One of the two crooks then whipped out a knife, convincing the victim to give up more money, his wallet and his cell phone, police said.
A man went into a park playground and hung out by a pond on Saturday. Only problem? He apparently forgot that he was still in his car, police said.The allegedly drunken driver drove into a playground at McLaren Park at around 2:20 a.m., according to police at Ingleside Station. Cops said they found the car stuck “half off the road and in the air” alongside the pond.The officers said the driver failed all the field sobriety tests.No injuries were reported.
In some cases it can be costly just to call the police.On Friday, a woman phoned cops after a trip to a cell phone store at Stonestown Galleria Mall turned out to be extremely expensive.The woman said she had inquired about a phone upgrade, but opted against it. She received her phone bill this month and noticed it was $245 higher than usual, police said.Turned out someone had upgraded her phone and also purchased four new cell phones, police said.
An apparently crabby cabbie beat and robbed a Haight-Ashbury woman after she disputed the taxi fare on Sunday, the woman told police.The woman said she was being dropped off at Scott and Haight streets around 5:10 a.m. when she told the taxi driver the fare wasn’t fair.She left the car and began walking away when the cabbie “chased her on foot, pushed her to the ground, beat her and took her wallet and keys,” police said.
A 28-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries during a bar melee in Bernal Heights on Sunday, police said.
Around 11:15 p.m. a bar fight erupted at a bar at Mission Street and Richland Avenue between the victim and three others. The fight spilled out onto the street and one of the suspects stabbed the man with an unknown weapon multiple times in the back of the head, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
A woman who was robbed escaped with only the loss of her rings after a man held a knife to her throat.
The 27-year-old woman was approached from behind in the 500 block of Treat Street by an unknown man around 8:30 p.m., according to the San Francisco Police Department.
The brazen thief placed a knife to her throat and demanded her money, police said.
