[samcday]

Fun anecdote. I was living/working in San Francisco a couple of years ago. It was 10am on a work day. I was walking towards my office, along Folsom coming from the 101 towards 8th. Out of nowhere a guy just walks up to one of the cars parked on the street, smashes the rear window, and starts taking whatever was inside. There was several homeless people nearby just casually observing it, along with myself. The perpetrator clearly gave zero fucks and undertook the whole thing as casually as one might stop to tie their shoe on the street. It was a little surreal, and I was already desensitized to the ... interesting characteristics of SoMa streets by that point.

[webninja]

I saw a similar surreal thing in San Fransisco. I was in the back left seat of a Lyft when I saw a man who appeared to be homeless walk up to a parked car on the side of the road. The traffic light was red so we were stopped with several cars in front of and behind us. The man peered into the windows, picked up his skateboard and bashed the back left side window of the car. He started pull out a non-descript black suitcase. The hole wasn’t big enough, so he had to bash the window more. I’m stunned as he’s doing this and I said aloud “Is he breaking into that car?”. “...Yeah he is.” - The Lyft driver cautiously replied. He got on his skateboard and casually skated away with the black suitcase. What can you do when that happens? The cops don’t accept picture text messages yet. Can you just shoot these burglars on sight or do they have to be on your private property for that?

[samcday]

> Can you just shoot these burglars on sight or do they have to be on your private property for that?

No idea about the law, but I would hope you value human life more than a stolen black suitcase.