car theft
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Woman Allegedly Steals Car and Tells Cops She's Beyoncé. No One Needed a Maury DNA Test to Determine THAT Was a Lie
Who among us has never told a little lie to get ourselves out of trouble? The rule of thumb, though: make your lie appear plausible. In today’s “Now, sis” news, KTSM reports that a Las Cruces, New Mexico woman was arrested Saturday morning after allegedly stealing a car. The woman, who’s actual name turned out…
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Oops Upside Your Head: 65-Year-Old Woman (and Her Bat) Give Burglar the Business
Clarese Gainey of Gainesville, Fla., is about that action. Most 65-year-old women (and men) would hide in the closet and call the police if they caught someone trying to break into their car, but ohhh not Clarese. You know what she did? “I grab my bat, I brace myself, and I ease the door open,”…
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11-Year-Old Connecticut Boy Fights Off Man Who Tried to Steal Father’s Car
An 11-year-old boy was not having it when a stranger hopped into his father’s car and drove off, fighting off the suspect and forcing the man to flee. According to NBC Connecticut, the incident occurred Saturday morning around 8:30 at a McDonald’s in Hartford. The boy’s father had left him in the running vehicle while…
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How a Nosy Woman Got a Doctoral Candidate Beaten and Arrested
Lawrence Crosby, a black man and an engineering doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, was fixing his car in a suburb outside Chicago on Oct. 10, 2015, when a woman passing by called police. “Hi, somebody’s trying to break into, somebody’s trying to break into a car,” the woman told the dispatcher, according to Fox 32.…