Video: Late-Night Oakland Sideshow Draws Crowd of 500 People, Likely Stolen Car Set on Fire

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/25/video-late-night-oakland-sideshow-draws-crowd-of-500-people-likely-stolen-car-set-on-fire/There were at least four major sideshows early Sunday morning, three in Oakland and another in Richmond, but the one near Piedmont in Oakland drew 500 people, went on for three hours, and left a probably stolen Infiniti completely torched.   It is a fairly common Monday morning headline around these parts to see that there were massive sideshows in Oakland over the weekend, especially when the weather is nice, and often in the very early hours of Sunday morning. Sure enough, KPIX reports there were three sideshows in Oakland in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and KTVU adds there was another sideshow in Richmond with “hundreds of peo