Got a call from the SFPD a couple days ago saying they recovered my car in “drivable” condition.
It turns out the word “drivable” has a wide range of possiblities. In our case it means that all the windows were intact but the ignition and the back seat were damaged and someone had spent sometime hanging out in the car eating and smoking.
A women at “Auto Return” (a much more hopeful name than the old one they used to use “City Tow”) also got her car back in “Drivable” condition, except in her case the engine was pretty much destroyed as well as the ignition was jammed with somone else’s keys (which is apparently how many of the cars are managed to be started).
It must have been kids since nothing of any easy resale value was stolen and the car wasn’t stripped.
Cost a couple hundred bucks to get it back, probably as much to get everything fixed.
An annoying experience all around.