SAN FRANCISCO Local residents fed up with "tour buses behaving badly" have turned to social media to make a statement, gather information and embarrass offending operators.

The critics created the Facebook page, called Tour Buses Behaving Badly, that is chronicling the "double parkings, slow crawlings and illegal stoppings of buses schlepping tourists to and from the Painted Ladies."

Painted Ladies is a term used to describe Victorian and Edwardian-era houses and buildings painted in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details.

The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by authors of a 1978 book, Painted Ladies - San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians. Since then the term has also been used to describe groups of colorful Victorian houses in other cities.

There are hundreds of such houses in San Francisco, many perched on steep hillsides, and seeing them is popular with visitors to the city. Dozens of tour buses pass them by them daily.

The Facebook page was created last month by a group of neighbors in the Alamo Square area who want to document "tour buses behaving badly" for upcoming hearings about tour bus activity, impacts and mitigations.

"Infractions" documented on the website - with photographs and videos, include a bus "slowing to less than 5 mph, ignoring traffic backing up behind;" multiple buses illegally parked at (city transit bus) Muni stops, and "a whopping seven buses parked on Hayes Street at one time."

One blogger wrote: "As Stephanie Tanner (a character from the late 1980s-early 1990s TV sitcom Full House) might say, how rude!"

Supporters of the Facebook page arent sure their effort will help ameliorate the situation but suggest that the first order of business is to identify the problem.