Outhouse Arsonist Doesn't Know Enough to Come in Out of the Rain -- No. 25 Set Ablaze Sunday

Either the outhouse arsonist has inspired imitators -- likely -- or he's discovered Muni, as the 25th porta-potty in this increasingly old-hat crime spree was immolated Sunday evening in the hinterlands of SOMA.

While the flaming outhouses that have dotted the city since November were once limited to the Russian Hill/Pacific Heights neighborhoods (and burned in the wee hours), the last three to go up in flames were a pair in Potrero Hill in the afternoon and evening and, now a john in the 500 block of Second Street, which was torched at 7:25 p.m. Sunday, according to police.