I’m sure I can make it
A man in Lehigh Acres, Fla., drove up to a bridge over a canal, got out of his car, checked the distance to the other side (about 20 feet) and decided to try to jump over it with his car. He didn't make it. A witness said he thought the man was “misbehaving, or under the influence of alcohol or drugs.”
RULE NUMBER ONE, DON’T GET CAUGHT ... Before robbing a bank in Largo, Fla., a man Googled “how to rob a bank.” He was arrested a short time later.
WELL, CONGRATULATIONS, PINHEAD ... A 46-year-old man who led Iowa state troopers on a 15-minute car chase told them he wanted to be chased because it was on his bucket list. He was arrested.
LOOK, OFFICER, I CAN VOUCH FOR HIM ... Police arrested a man in a stolen car immediately after he drove away from his house in Eagle River, Alaska. A short time later, another man who was living there pulled over — on a stolen motorcycle, mind you — and asked police why they had stopped his roommate. They arrested him, too.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WOULD DO SUCH A THING? ... When police in Lilburn, Ga., came to the home of a 66-year-old woman to arrest her for making threats against a state court judge, she attacked them with a flaming broom.
WELL, WE’D BETTER GET OUT OF HERE, I GUESS ... A man called in a bomb threat to a Pittsburgh restaurant in an effort to get out of paying his bill.
I AM SHOCKED THAT YOU WERE EAVESDROPPING! ... Washington State Patrol officers found semi-automatic rifles in the trunk of the car of a convicted felon they had taken into custody. They looked for the guns after listening to jailhouse phone calls he made to his son during which he asked him to retrieve the weapons so he wouldn't get in trouble.
ISN’T EVERYBODY AT OUR SERVICE? ... A British couple on vacation in the Greek island of Rhodes were stopped when they walked out of a restaurant without paying. They explained that they had signed up for an “all-inclusive” stay at a nearby resort, and they thought that it meant that they could eat and drink for free anywhere on the island.
PLUS, ANYONE INSIDE WOULDN’T BE A SUSPECT ... Police pulled over for a vehicle check after spotting a black Hummer with a casket on its roof parked on the side of the interstate in Little Rock, Ark. Their attention prompted the driver to speed off and lead the cops on a high-speed chase until finally being arrested for reckless driving. Officers don't know why he had a casket on the roof, but assumed that nobody was inside of it.