The Berlin police have, in recent years, become all-too-used to attacks on parked cars . It seems that a vehicle goes up in flames almost nightly in the German capital, often at the hands of left-wing radicals.

But the attack on early Saturday morning was not arson. Nor was the perpetrator a leftist. Instead, police found British rocker Pete Doherty on the scene -- and took him into custody for throwing his beer glass at a car and breaking out its back window.

The incident took place in front of a bar called Trinkteufel ("Drink Devil") in the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg. The tabloid Bild is reporting a claim by a bartender that Doherty and two friends had been thrown out of another bar before they landed at the Trinkteufel at 6:50 a.m. on Saturday morning. "I almost threw them out too. He was drinking shots and constantly asking where to get cocaine," the unnamed bartender told Bild.

Doherty was taken to a police station not far from Checkpoint Charlie where he spent the next three hours. He was booked for property damage and released.