Posted on 06/26/2012 12:26:25 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
Woman threw her alligator purse filled with cash at a Range Rover filled with teens.
A woman lost $2,000 in Palo Alto after she threw her purse at a passing car filled with teenagers who allegedly threw a milkshake in her face.
The woman was walking across University Avenue near Rudy's Pub Sunday when a white Range Rover full of teenagers drove by and allegedly threw a milkshake in her face.
Authorities said the woman tried to get revenge by throwing her alligator skin purse at the passing vehicle.
The story was first reported by Palo Alto Online.
A window was open on the Range Rover and the purse landed in the car. The purse had several of the woman's personal items and $2,000 in cash.
Police are looking for the stylish purse and the teenagers, who are facing charges ranging from battery to possession of stolen property or misappropriation of property.
“Who carries $2,000 in their purse?”
Only those people who intend on purchasing $2,000 milkshakes!
The purse was not stolen, she threw it to them. Maybe they thought she was paying them back for the milk shake.
Sounds like my wife. She complains about shoulder pains, and her purse weighs 15 - 20 lbs.
The woman is OBVIOUSLY an idiot. She should have had a tracking App on her Iphone turned on. How do I know she has an Iphone.
1) It’s Palo Alto
2) She had 2 Grand in the purse
So she HAD to have an Iphone in there too!
What caught my eye particularly were the tire tracks that carefully negotiated between the cones into the freshly asphalted side of the road. As I continued my decent down the as-yet unaltered half of the road, I became increasingly dumbfounded that the tire tracks continued dutifully down the right and freshly asphalted side of the road. I could tell that the driver was keeping the vehicle out of the shoulder with increased difficulty as there was obvious slippage and large clumps of asphalt that belied this otherwise careful driver.
Nearly approaching the bottom of the 2 mile hill and rounding the last bend I saw a brand-new (temporary tags still affixed) white (mostly) Range Rover stuck in the shoulder with a confused-looking smartly dressed middle-aged woman behind the wheel talking to someone on her phone. The tires were still turned to their maximum as she probably desperately attempted to steer herself out of her slide. Yet for all her careful and brave maneuvering, there she was, stuck in the ditch.
I have never seen so much asphalt compacted so tightly in such a small space as I saw in her wheel wells. The once shiny white fenders and entire side and quarter panels were caked with inches of asphalt. She was literally stuck in her car which was stuck to the road. Even if she could have extricated herself from her prison her heels would have sunk into the asphalt still on the road.
I can only imagine the phone call to 1) her husband, 2) the police, 3) the towing company, 4) the insurance company, 5) the asphalting company.
That's right. One could just as easily make the argument that she bought the milkshake, however clumsily served, for $2000 and an alligator purse.
I hope at least it was an authentic milk shake....
Hey now, that was an impulse buy!
Yeah, not a good idea.
...and chocolate...
Not quite.
Sorry, you're wrong. They know the purse isn't theirs, they also knew why she threw it and never intended for them to keep it. Keeping the purse amounts to stealing, $2000 makes it grand theft if I recall correctly. They should have thrown the purse back out the window and kept driving.
I was just driving in La Jolla... and she’s still stuck there.
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