The cops probably won’t even notice
Police pulled over a man in Buchtel, Ohio, and arrested him on an outstanding warrant, but, as they were leading him to their cruiser, a woman jumped into the arrestee’s SUV and sped off. After leading officers on a high-speed, half-hour chase, she crashed into one of their squad cars. She attempted to flee on foot, but was tased and taken into custody. Cops found methamphetamine in her backpack.
YOU CALL THAT EVIDENCE, OFFICER!?: A man named Darrell carjacked a vehicle at a parkand-ride in Wilkinsburg, Pa., and later fled on foot, was caught because he had plugged his iPhone into the car and left it there by mistake. Police, who found the device, said it was labeled “Darrells iPhone.”
HEY SARGE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE HIS PAPERWORK: A man was arrested for stealing a shopping cart jam-packed with laundry detergent from a supermarket in La Verne, Calif. Officers then discovered that he was wanted for murder, and had a $2 million warrant out for his arrest.
OK, BUT YOU’RE NOT GOING TO ARREST ME, RIGHT?: A man crashed his pickup truck into a guardrail in Summersville, W.Va., and ran away before police arrived, perhaps because the vehicle was full of empty beer and liquor bottles which may be an indication of his condition at the time. Police are in possession of the truck and are waiting to see if he would like to come to the station to get it back.
THE BUCK JUST COULDN’T STAND REJECTION: A full-grown male deer, apparently looking for a mate, was attracted to a Christmas reindeer display on the front lawn of a home in West Allis, Wisc. Getting no response from Dasher and Prancer, the animal stormed into the house, and rampaged through the place for about three hours.
OH NO, PLEASE DON’T TELL MOMMY!: A 14-yearold boy stole a Mustang Shelby GT500 from a Ford assembly plant in Brownstown, Mich., but ran out of gas during the subsequent police chase, abandoned the vehicle and jumped over a retaining wall of the freeway in a failed attempt to evade the officers. They turned him over to his mother.
BUT I CAME HERE TO GET A FRESH START: A woman wanted for being a fugitive from justice in Pennsylvania was arrested when she applied for a job as a security guard in the sheriff’s office in Jersey City, N.J.
GREAT, WE ALL FEEL SO MUCH BETTER: After the toilets on a flight from Grand Canaria, Spain, to England failed, the pilot made an unscheduled stop so that the passengers could go to the bathroom. All 200 people got off the plane in Bilbao, Spain.
MOM, STEP-DAD IS ACTING CRAZY AGAIN!: During a vicious argument with his step-son at his home in Altamonte Springs, Fla., in which he told the boy to “shut the up and get out of the room,” a man pistol-whipped a PlayStation 4 and then shot it. The kid called his mother to come pick him up.