A convertible owner who recently moved to Rincon Hill is learning the hard way that street-parking a soft top in this city is essentially an act of faith — and someone in the neighborhood has decided to punish that faith with a blade. After two-plus years of parking a Miata on SF streets without a single incident, this driver has had their soft top slashed twice in two weeks. The second time came within 24 hours of returning the car to a *different* nearby street, which strongly suggests they're being deliberately targeted by someone who either lives in the area or patrols it.

Let's do the math on this. A soft top replacement runs somewhere between $1,500 and $3,000 depending on the shop. Police reports for property vandalism in San Francisco are, as we all know, basically paperwork therapy — they make you feel like you did something, but nothing happens. SFPD's clearance rate for property crimes hovers in the single digits. The person doing this faces essentially zero consequences.