SAN FRANCISCO -- Beware, robbers who plan on stealing items on dry land before running to the shores of the San Francisco Bay, plunging into the water and swimming to safety and a life on the lam.
San Francisco cops have you covered, as they proved this weekend by flexing their amphibious abilities at a Giants game.
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An SFPD officer was spotted straddling a very Batman-esque "quadski" on Saturday in McCovey Cove, the tiny inlet next to AT&T Park where out-of-the-park home runs to right field occasionally land.
A "quadski" is an amphibious ATV vehicle that you can drive into the water then keep right on riding as it morphs into a jet-ski. Behold, from this weekend's game:
The San Francisco Police Dept's amphibious "Quadski" in McCovey Cove (H/T @SportsGrid) pic.twitter.com/2ZCc749Dfq— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 26, 2015
#sfpd. I'm sure the cops will say they were zipping around Mission Bay on important police business but looked fun. pic.twitter.com/tPxlRxgfSq— C.W. Nevius (@cwnevius) July 26, 2015
Saturday's Giants game was the quadski's first known public sighting, but the gizmo isn't all that new. Officially known as a a Gibbs Quadski XL, it was donated to the police department in October by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff -- because this is San Francisco and of course it was.
Here's a Gibbs promotional video, posted to YouTube last May, showing the quadski doing its thing on turf and in the surf.
All in a day's police work.