Brazen Vandals Smash Cop's Car Windows While He Orders Food

Well, it wasn't as bad as that

​Word to the wise: Young men sashaying through the Mission Corridor* late at night swinging around baseball bats may not be on their way to a game.

On that note, a cop who parked his cruiser in the 100 block of Richland near Mission Sunday night at 10:10 p.m. to order food didn't get to savor his dinner. Two bat-wielding men smashed out the front window of the police car and got away clean.

A resident heard the windshield break and looked out his window. He spotted one of the suspects near the police car, and another one wandering into his driveway. The resident called 911 to report the vandalism.

Cops called to the scene to aid the cop already on the scene corralled a suspect fitting the window-smasher's description. But the eyewitness said the man wasn't involved in the incident. The culprits remain at large.

Police spokesman Sergeant Mike Andraychak says it appears there was no animosity between the officer and the unidentified suspects -- "it looks like it was just the car." It would appear that brazen destructiveness was its own reward.

While the afflicted officer's dinner cooled, he was required to fill out an internal police report, then wait some more while his car was "downed" for the night and taken in for repairs. He then went through the process of checking out a new vehicle before getting on with the evening's work.

Since time is money, the vandals cost the city not only the cost of replacing a windshield and towing the disabled car, but hours of unnecessary police idleness and busywork. That's food for thought -- perhaps the only food the poor cop got to have that night.

*This story originally referred to the area in question as "The Excelsior," somewhat stretching that neighborhood's boundaries.

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