One of my favorite things about the SF Examiner is their inspiring ability to make serious crime sound like tabloid comedy.  Take this story from the other morning:

A car full of thugs struck a bicyclist, knocking him to the ground, then stole the bike early Tuesday morning, police said.

The 29-year-old bicyclist was uninjured in the hit-and-run robbery at 22nd Street and South Van Ness Avenue around 1 a.m., police said.

Pretty crazy stuff.  Not to state the obvious here, but hitting the bike you intend to steal isn't a good strategy if you want the bike to be ridable again.

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