If you were stuck waiting for your Powell Street cable car this week, wondering if Muni had somehow gotten even slower — congratulations, it wasn't Muni's fault for once. This time you can thank a gentleman in a three-piece suit who allegedly decided his Jeep needed a little off-road adventure right down Powell Street toward the turnaround.

According to a Muni representative, the driver plowed into one of the pillars at the cable car turnaround, knocking it loose and leaving his bumper behind as a souvenir. Because nothing says "I'm a serious professional" like wearing a three-piece suit while treating one of San Francisco's most iconic tourist landmarks like a Moab trail run.

As one SF resident put it: "How do you even do this? That looks hard to accomplish."

Hard to accomplish, indeed. The Powell Street turnaround isn't exactly a wide-open intersection. You have to actively work to crash into those pillars. This isn't a case of someone misjudging a tight parallel park — this is a driver who apparently ignored every physical and visual cue that screamed "you should not be driving here."

The incident is just the latest example of increasingly reckless driving on San Francisco streets. And while the city loves to spend millions on grandiose "Vision Zero" plans and bike lane studies, maybe the real question is simpler: why aren't we actually holding dangerous drivers accountable when they cause chaos in the most pedestrian-heavy corridors in the city?

Those bollards at the turnaround? They did their job. As one local noted, "Those bollards stopped a motorist on route to crashing into pedestrians. If only we had those bollards at bus stops."

That's the uncomfortable takeaway here. We're relying on concrete posts to do the work that enforcement should be doing. SFPD traffic enforcement remains a ghost, and until there are real consequences for this kind of driving, we'll keep seeing Jeeps where cable cars should be.

The suit survived. The pillar and the bumper did not. And somewhere, a cable car operator is having the longest shift of their life.