Sideshows, the dangerous, impromptu car-spinning gatherings that were once the purview of East Bay communities alone, have been moving across the bridge in the last couple of years, especially on warm weekends.
Still, the San Francisco sideshows we’ve seen have stuck mostly to areas near the freeways, with a few exceptions — like that one that popped up at Market and Castro last March.
Never in SFist’s memory has there been a sideshow all the way on the west side of town, but that changed on Saturday night — technically 12:45 am Sunday — when a sideshow took shape at the intersection of 42nd Avenue and Lawton Street, in the typically quiet Outer Sunset. As KTVU reports, neighbors in the area were “startled” by the sound of screeching tires after many of them were likely asleep in bed, and to some, the entire concept of a sideshow was likely brand new…