San Francisco is within the midst of a automobile break-in epidemic and a video has gone viral displaying a pair of vacationers making an attempt to cease thieves from making off with their valuables in a black Audi Q5.

The incident occurred on September 13 whereas Dmitry Koval and his associates have been parked on the Fort Mason Middle lot within the metropolis’s Marian District. Whereas within the lot at roughly 4 p.m., the black Audi pulled up subsequent to their two white Ford Transit vans and two suspects obtained out and smashed the aspect home windows of the Fords.

The thieves stole baggage with roughly $10,000 value of things in them, together with private electronics, paperwork, and passports. Nevertheless, Dmitry and his associates weren’t keen to simply watch the thieves make off their belongings and tried to cease the thieves.

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Koval and one among his associates tried to seize the Audi’s steering wheel however the thieves fought again and accelerated away, leaving Koval and his good friend clinging to the doorways. One of many males fell off within the car parking zone and slid throughout the bottom, struggling numerous painful scratches. The second man was thrown off from the Q5 after the video lower off. He broke each his legs and needed to keep at an area hospital for a number of days for remedy.

“We noticed them taking baggage from our vans and began placing it into the black SUV,” Koval informed the New York Publish. “That’s when my associates began operating and different folks there have been honking their horns. I heard somebody yell, ‘Don’t run to them! They could have a gun!’ We thought we’d be safer if we went some other place so we went to Fort Mason lot. I’m simply nonetheless in shock as a result of all of it occurred so quick. In complete, they in all probability took about $10,000 value [of items], together with laptops and different vital issues like paperwork and our passports.”

In line with the police, there have been greater than 15,000 automobile break-ins throughout San Francisco this 12 months. Supervisor Dean Preston is looking for a coordinated response from metropolis departments and whereas talking with ABC 7 Information, native police say they’ve made 37 arrests this 12 months associated to automobile break-ins.