--- description: It's like cow-tipping, but since there aren't many cows in San Francisco, this is the next best option title: Vandals Are Running Amok Flipping Over Smart Cars In San Francisco image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vandals Are Running Amok Flipping Over Smart Cars In San Francisco by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 4:05 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 4:05 PM CUT Some bored San Franciscans have apparently put a modern, urban twist on the rural pastime of[ cow tipping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow%5Ftipping "undefined"). Instead of working together to push over cows, these people are instead flipping over Smart cars. Sometime late Sunday or early Monday, vandals tipped over three of the tiny vehicles throughout the city, NBC Bay Area [reports](http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Suspects-Flip-Over-Smart-Cars-in-San-Francisco-254177981.html "undefined"). Witness Brandon Michael said he was out for a cigarette around 1 a.m. and saw a group of about six or eight people, all wearing hoodies, gather around a Smart car and lift it up. Michael told NBC that the vandalized vehicles remind him of “dachshunds sitting up on their hind legs,” which is a very vivid and poetic description. > [](https://twitter.com/NBCLA/status/453161643997163520) No arrests have been made, as police are still investigating. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/51938/san-francisco-vandals-flipping-over-smart-cars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/51938/san-francisco-vandals-flipping-over-smart-cars/"},"headline":"Vandals Are Running Amok Flipping Over Smart Cars In San Francisco","datePublished":"2014-04-07T16:05:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:34.608Z","description":"It's like cow-tipping, but since there aren't many cows in San Francisco, this is the next best option","url":"https://time.com/51938/san-francisco-vandals-flipping-over-smart-cars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","U.S.","San Francisco","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/51938/san-francisco-vandals-flipping-over-smart-cars/","name":"Vandals Are Running Amok Flipping Over Smart Cars In San Francisco"}}]}] ```