Sorry to hear about your loss! Hopefully you'll be a public service announcement for others about the dangers of leaving anything -- anything -- visible in a ca

Sorry to hear about your loss! Hopefully you'll be a public service announcement for others about the dangers of leaving anything -- anything -- visible in a car in San Francisco. If there's even the slightest doubt that the item has value, your car window will be smashed and the items stolen. If it makes you feel any better, you're in good company: nearly everyone I know has been the victim of smash-and-grabs. At my last company, two of our employees had their laptops stolen from a parked car. I've even had windows bashed because someone wanted to open the glove compartment to see if there was anything inside! Most recently, we discovered some crackhead cutting through our front gate because he wanted access to some bikes that were visible. He would have had to cut through the gate, then another security door to get them, but that was no deterrent. It's one of the "charming" aspects of city life that makes you want to move to the suburbs. As codegeek says, you should report your passport immediately. Your laptop has probably already been fenced for drug money, but you could try to find it on craigslist, or down at the various stolen-property yardsales at 6th/7th and Market. That's a long shot, though.