While I think SF (and most of the West) has us beat in terms of clickbait headlines, it still exists. I found these two today while scrolling through our main tabloid site.
I don't understand how you can compare someone being lit on fire to someone being fined for not returning a tray or someone carrying a knife in public.
Your first link is about someone just making a threatening video. Your second link is about a new fine for not returning plates, silverware, etc. to restaurants. Neither one of those are even remotely similar to someone intentionally lighting another person on fire.
There is a law, it was broken and the person was sentenced. I'd rather live in a place that enforces laws rather than one where people run loose, but to each their own I suppose.
Yes I do not live there currently (as you have noticed by my previous comments) but that is where I consider myself "from".
In NYC we call that art. I just went to a museum exhibit in Boston about graffiti art on public transit in the 80's. Point being, something so benign being that strongly and violently punished does indeed sound crazy to me.
https://mothership.sg/2021/07/lgbtq-instagram-live-knife-vio...
https://mothership.sg/2021/07/return-tray-fine-commentary/