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TOMBALL, Texas – Talk about bold! And ... not so smart ... because a former Houston area car dealership employee was arrested after allegedly deciding to take a police patrol vehicle out for a joyride, without permission. Not only that, according to law enforcement, the suspect said it was not his first time.

When all the votes were counted on Tuesday night, Glenn Youngkin stood triumphant over Clinton flack Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe touched the third rail- he said parents should have no business knowing what their children were being taught. He said it seven times. His attitude was the same as the Loudoun county school board, which didn't believe parents should know when their children were raped in school. VIRGINIA PARENTS: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, if these people are willing to cover up the rape of a child to protect a political agenda, these people are willing to do ANYTHING to your children. @RealAmVoice...

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams is being lambasted on Twitter for his controversial comments about the tragic murder of Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar by two teenage girls. Williams, who co-hosts the Fox News show 'The Five', said, "I don’t think they intended to kill anybody. They were looking to have a joy ride. It just went way wrong, way out of control, and ended up in a gross tragedy." His usage of the term 'joy ride' led to a storm of controversy on social media as users slammed him for 'sticking up for those murderers'. Co-host Jesse Watters...

RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) — A woman was arrested Thursday night for allegedly stealing a Riverside Fire Department truck and taking it on a joyride while first responders were handling a life-threatening medical emergency. “Two police officers responded first, they began CPR,” Riverside police Sgt. Juan Munoz said. “They saved the man’s life.” Munoz said that while firefighters were getting the victim, who had stopped breathing, into an ambulance, the suspect hopped inside their engine at Hole Avenue and drove it three miles away to the eastbound Adams Street off-ramp on the 91 Freeway — colliding with at least two cars along...

Police arrested a man last week after he allegedly drove a stolen construction excavator into a light pole and caused extensive damage while driving through two gas stations just off Interstate 5 in Redding. Remore Allen Smith, 37, of North Carolina faces charges of vehicle theft, resisting arrest and hit-and-run after authorities say he stole the heavy machinery from an I-5 on-ramp at about 3:15 a.m. Friday. Smith allegedly drove the excavator several hundred feet on Churn Creek Road, striking a light pole and traveling through a Chevron gas station and then an Arco AM/PM station, the Redding Police Department...

SAN ANGELO, TX (CBSDFW.COM) — During the early morning hours of June 28, 2018, San Angelo Police officers were dispatched to a crash at a south San Angelo Walmart after a driver crashed into the building and drove into the store. “A 19-year-old Eldorado man is facing multiple Felony charges after he used his truck to drive through the Walmart Supercenter located at 5501 Sherwood Way in San Angelo,” said San Angelo Police in a report early Thursday. Surveillance video shows the truck – allegedly being driven by Caleb Wilson – crashing through glass front doors of the store then...

A man attacked a Metrobus driver with a weapon and hijacked his bus Tuesday morning, D.C. police said. The bus then struck a pedestrian, who later died. It's not clear where the bus was taken from, but police say the bus in now stopped at a gas station in the 4300 block of Minnesota Avenue in Northeast Washington. Police say the suspect got on the bus and attacked the bus driver with a weapon. The driver managed to get off the bus, but suffered a back injury in the process. He is expected to be OK. The suspect then drove...

SCOTLAND, Pa. (WHTM) - State police in Chambersburg are investigating an incident where someone took an authorized ride on a PennDOT pay loader. The heavy equipment was parked south of Shippensburg last week, but sometime over the weekend was taken for a four-mile drive on Interstate 81. Police said the pay loader was driven from Exit 24 for Fayette Street and ended up in a motel parking lot off the Scotland exit. Investigators believe the unauthorized ride occurred sometime between Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Anyone with information is asked to call state police in Chambersburg...

US government refuses to pay damages for Ferrari F50 destroyed during an FBI joy ride. The US Department of Justice is deploying all of its legal muscle to avoid paying the price after an FBI agent destroyed an exotic car during a joy ride. After nearly two years of trying to recover the money owed by the government, Motors Insurance Company filed a lawsuit against the government seeking the full $750,000 value of the wrecked 1995 Ferrari F50. The vehicle originally had been stolen in 2003 from a Ferrari dealer in Pennsylvania. Motors paid the $630,000 insurance claim, giving the...

LARKSPUR, Colo. – A Colorado teen said a bear got into his empty car, honked the horn and sent it rolling into a thicket with the bear inside. .. he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south of Denver, during the joyride early Friday. He said the bear got into the car through an unlocked door and knocked the shifter into neutral, which sent it rolling backward 125 feet. Story thinks the door slammed shut when the car jolted to a stop, trapping the bear inside.

em>I thought we had a serious financial crisis that required everyone to sacrifice?Yes friends, President Obama and First Lady Michelle had another of their famous "date nights" Saturday. Instead of clogging traffic in Washington, D.C. to visit a restaurant, they hopped on the Marine One helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base, jumped on Air Force One (a Gulfstream 500, not the 747) then flew up to New York City followed by TWO OTHER PLANES for staff and press (the 747 would have been cheaper). Upon landing in New York several more helicopters, limos, vans, police, military and other staff were...

A former Microsoft executive blasted off into space Thursday morning with the Expedition 19 crew aboard a Russian spacecraft headed for the International Space Station. Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian native, headed up Microsoft's application software group and oversaw the creation of the ubiquitous Office applications before leaving in 2002. Simonyi joined Microsoft in Feb. 1981, and during 21 years there, he headed up early development of both Word and Excel, and worked as an architect and distinguished engineer in the Microsoft Research organization.

Jul 17, 2005 9:04 pm US/Central Chicago Man Steals Squad Car To Get To Work Suspect Caught When He Stopped To Help Someone Save It Email It Print It (CBS) CHICAGO A West Side man says he needed to get to work, and he made a decision that he'll probably regret. Now Miguel Espinosa is in jail for stealing a marked Chicago police squad car. Detectives say the 38-year-old Espinosa noticed the squad car outside a restaurant on North Western Avenue Thursday night. The officer had left the keys in it while he went inside to eat. So Espinosa stole...

Pilot, 25, is charged in airplane joyride Manchester man faces felony charges, license loss Tuesday, March 08, 2005 BY AMALIE NASH News Staff Reporter Police say a Manchester pilot entered an unlocked airport hangar last month after he had been drinking and took an airplane on a seven-minute joyride to Tecumseh, damaging the plane when he landed it without lowering the wheels. The accused pilot, Thomas Robert Pyle, 25, was charged and arraigned Monday on three felony counts related to the Feb. 3 late-night incident. Investigators said word of Pyle's flight spread in the community, and police were able to...

SAND LAKE, Mich. (AP) — At least he wasn't speeding A 4-year-old boy drove his mother's car to a video store a quarter-mile from their apartment in this town about 15 miles north of Grand Rapids. Unable to reach the accelerator, the boy managed to put the car in gear and make his way to the store about 1:30 a.m. Friday, Sand Lake Police Chief Doug Heugel said. Finding the store closed, the youngster began a slow trip home. Weaving and with its headlights off, the car got the attention of Officer Jay Osga, who first thought he was following...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's regime had fallen, and the people of Iraq had access to anything in his opulent home -- furniture, food, water and gold. But looters wanted his cars. U.S. troops manning Hussein's main palace complex said they have had to begin destroying the cars because so many people have tried to take them. They fear that the cars could be used as suicide bombs or to create dangerous roadblocks. Destroying the cars, some of them classic American creations, has proved more painful for the American troops than for the people who wanted to take them. Hussein's...

"You're Still My Baby" Baghdad, Iraq - Capt. Daniel Schmitt looked eagerly at the tank and then explained. "I have a hobby. I drive every single thing in the Marine Corps at least once."But this is a Russian-made T-72 Iraqi tank, not a Marine vehicle."It is now," said Schmitt, 31 grinning like the Cheshire cat as he climbed into the tank for a short joyride through a palm grove Monday.Schmitt, commanding officer of the Weapons Company of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, dreamed of driving the tank when he first saw it parked by the side of the road Sunday...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Capt. Daniel Schmitt looked eagerly at the tank and then explained. "I have a hobby. I drive every single thing in the Marine Corps at least once." But this is a Russian-made T-72 Iraqi tank, not a Marine vehicle. "It is now," Schmitt said, and grinned like the Cheshire Cat as he climbed into the tank for a short joyride through a palm grove on Monday. Schmitt, commanding officer of the Weapons Company of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, is admired and respected by his men — not only because he began as an enlisted man like...