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"I just wanted to be a hoodrat" --- Reporter: Do you think you should be punished? Boy: [inaudible/unintelligible] man... whole weekend without video games... --- Video was posted back in May... the kid has since gone on to reveal his ambition of being a thug and his love of chicken wings. Seriously.

The driver of a stolen car was speeding down the buses-only lane in Oakland at 70 mph Thursday night when he lost control, careened onto the sidewalk and struck a University of Pittsburgh graduate student who was dragged 50 feet under the chassis. Jennifer Lynn Burroughs, 25, was in critical condition yesterday at UPMC Presbyterian after suffering a crushed pelvis, injuries to her skull and severe brain hemorrhaging. The driver, Christopher Titus, 19, of Garfield, got out of the car and ran from the scene. He was apprehended by University of Pittsburgh police and was awaiting arraignment last night. Mr....

Who needs the Club when you have a stick shift? Two teenage robbers spent valuable getaway time Monday night trying to drive off in a stolen car — but gave up, police said, when they realized they couldn't navigate a sedan with manual transmission. The teens bolted from the Honda Accord into some woods but were captured within minutes. "You can almost imagine how it would look to an outsider watching a video of two people spending however much time to start up a car and get away," said Cobb police Officer Wayne Delk. "But luckily they didn't decide to...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Car-theft charges against Daniel Baldwin were dropped Friday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelly MacEachern dismissed the charges at the prosecution's request during a brief hearing, said Farrah Emami, district attorney spokeswoman. "After following up on statements that were provided to us by witnesses and the victim, we determined that the evidence didn't support us going forward with the case," she said. Authorities had alleged the actor stole a 2003 GMC Yukon from a friend, Ken Smith, but Baldwin said it was a misunderstanding. Smith reported the car missing without knowing his cousin lent Baldwin the...

Vandalism, attempted break-in and in the end the theft of the car itself. All this after Lars Olsson put a Bush-sticker on the car. (Dagbladet.no): Wednesday last week Lars Olsson putt his sticker in support of Bush on his Chrysler Voyager: «George W. Bush. Saving your butt whether you like it or not.» Vandalism -Already the same day I started to notice the reactions. There was some honking and stuff, Lars says to Dagbladet.no -Then, Thursday morning I discovered that someone had broken off the window wipers at the rear of the car. I had to fix them, the 33...

Maybe she already had a string of bad luck at Grand Casino in Hinckley before she stole an idling car from the parking lot.

"WASHINGTON -- The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering that some of the vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior government officials. Inspector John E. Lewis, deputy assistant director of the FBI for counterterrorism, told the Globe that the investigation hasn't yielded any evidence that the vehicles were stolen specifically for car bombings. But there is evidence, he said, that the cars were smuggled from the United States as part of a...

Friday, September 16, 2005 © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Frustrated by numerous auto thefts in his neighborhood, a football coach took matters into his own hands when thieves tried to steal his truck, violently ripping one of them from a getaway car before calling police. Ken Cavallon of Seattle said he swung into action early Tuesday morning when his wife saw three people trying to break into his truck outside their home. "I realized, enough is enough, so I came flying up the hill," Cavallon told KOMO-TV. The coach grabbed a young man from inside the getaway vehicle as it began to...

SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A 17 year-old high school student faked the theft of his 2002 BMW M3 in order to collect insurance money to upgrade to a Bentley, police said on Thursday. The teen, a student of Skyline High School in Sammamish, a suburb of Seattle, had reported the car stolen earlier this week, said Michael Chiu, a spokesman for the police in Bellevue, another suburb located between Seattle and Sammamish.

PHOENIX -- A dark gray 2003 Dodge Ram truck sits backed up in the shaded space of a motel parking lot, isolated from other vehicles. The four-door, half-ton pickup can barely fit between the white lines, and is jacked up on tires that look as though they were made for a semi. A yellow smiley face stares blankly from a blue sign where the license plate should be. "It's probably stolen," says Detective Scott Reutter. Reutter, a Department of Public Safety officer working with the Arizona Vehicle Theft Task Force, said expensive vehicles found parked in isolated spaces outside shabby...

The thief slides behind the wheel of the car left unlocked and unattended with the engine running and congratulates himself on an easy score. "I got me a good one," he’s heard to say on the videotape. He puts the car in gear and drives a short distance before the engine stalls, the doors lock and he’s surrounded by police with guns drawn. Then, the tape player blares a familiar tune: Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do When they come for you? The music from the television show Cops has been a woeful tune lately for...

<p>British police said Tuesday they have arrested Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky at the request of Russian authorities who have charged him with fraud.</p> <p>An extradition request charges that Berezovsky defrauded the administration of Russia's Samara region while director of a company called LogoVaz between Jan. 1, 1994 and Dec. 31, 1995.</p>

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The popularity of television broadcasts of live high-speed car chases has led to a dramatic rise in criminals trying to out-race pursuing officers, according to Los Angeles police. They said they have documented cases of offenders waving to helicopters filming the pursuit and attempting spectacular manoeuvres in the hope of appearing on one of the seven Los Angeles television channels which show such chases live. "They are trying to get their 15 minutes of fame," said David Doan, deputy chief of police in the city, who is heading an investigation into the reasons for a rise in chases. After taking...

Bow-and-arrow hunter kills man trying to steal his car By ROMA KHANNA Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle A would-be car thief died Friday after he was shot by the car's owner, a camouflage-clad hunter toting a bow and arrow, police said. The thief was moments from a clean getaway when the hunter happened upon his car, police said. The man told the hunter he had a gun and threatened to kill him, said Sgt. T.E. Kiser of the Harris County Sheriff's Department homicide division. The hunter drew his bow and shot at the man, hitting him in the hip and buttocks...