Aaaand the day after the complaint about our ninja road signs, THIS happened. Of course, a half-hour before I was supposed to go home.
We got a report of a stolen car. The guy was SURE it was not a repo or that he had misparked it.
How was he so sure?
Because he had parked it running in the fire lane, with the keys in it, while he ran into the store to grab something!
Fail. Because he was too lazy to park and after 5-minutes we would have written him a ticket.
Win. Because a guy in front of the store watched the driver run-in, then walked up to the car and DROVE AWAY IN IT! It was not a friend pulling a prank!
Fail. Because the guy who stole the car was a douche.
Win. We have a nice video tape of the douche walking-up to the car and getting in, with a nice face shot, and the Police started looking for the car right away.
Fail. Because the driver of the vehicle did not know he had a warrant out for his arrest for an unpaid parking ticket and was booked by Police after he filed the stolen vehicle report
I still feel bad for the driver though; it's a tough lesson to learn, and some of the courts are so screwy that you might not know for years that you had an unpaid ticket, warrant, subpoena, etc. Example: You finish paying a fine with the local magistrate, but their computers never update the main office, so you are still in the system as having unpaid fines, after which time the main computer will automatically issue a warrant for your arrest. You have to get a paper from the main office to bring to the magistrate to have signed to bring to the main office to prove you paid your fine! How about a simple phone call people??? Sigh. But then, catching people using the system like this just brings-in more $ in fines.
We got a report of a stolen car. The guy was SURE it was not a repo or that he had misparked it.
How was he so sure?
Because he had parked it running in the fire lane, with the keys in it, while he ran into the store to grab something!
Fail. Because he was too lazy to park and after 5-minutes we would have written him a ticket.
Win. Because a guy in front of the store watched the driver run-in, then walked up to the car and DROVE AWAY IN IT! It was not a friend pulling a prank!
Fail. Because the guy who stole the car was a douche.
Win. We have a nice video tape of the douche walking-up to the car and getting in, with a nice face shot, and the Police started looking for the car right away.
Fail. Because the driver of the vehicle did not know he had a warrant out for his arrest for an unpaid parking ticket and was booked by Police after he filed the stolen vehicle report

I still feel bad for the driver though; it's a tough lesson to learn, and some of the courts are so screwy that you might not know for years that you had an unpaid ticket, warrant, subpoena, etc. Example: You finish paying a fine with the local magistrate, but their computers never update the main office, so you are still in the system as having unpaid fines, after which time the main computer will automatically issue a warrant for your arrest. You have to get a paper from the main office to bring to the magistrate to have signed to bring to the main office to prove you paid your fine! How about a simple phone call people??? Sigh. But then, catching people using the system like this just brings-in more $ in fines.
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