Pants on Fire: Woman Refuses to Pay for Food, Returns to Store Holding Flaming Trousers

San Francisco police say they're looking for a woman who threw a flaming pair of pants onto the floor of a Tenderloin business.

San Francisco police are looking for a woman who walked into a store carrying a pair of flaming pants in the Tenderloin last week.

At about 2:05 a.m. Thursday morning, police received a call reporting an arson happening at a store in the 300 block of Golden Gate Avenue, according to police.

Officers learned the woman walked into the store and ordered food. The woman then refused to pay for the food and left, police said.

The woman then returned to the store, apparently carrying a pair of pants that were on fire, according to police. The woman threw the fiery pants onto the floor before leaving the scene, police said.

No injuries were reported during the incident.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

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