Posted on 08/15/2005 12:29:27 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco -- Someone swiped a San Francisco Fire Department SUV overnight while its driver was busy with a paramedic call and took it for a short joyride before crashing it into several parked vehicles and fleeing, authorities said.
Paramedics were answering a call on the 600 block of Grove Street shortly before 1 a.m. when a fire department supervisor inadvertently left one of the doors to his SUV unlocked, said fire department spokesman Pete Howes.
Howes said that when fire department vehicles block a lane, it is standard procedure to leave them running and locked so their flashing lights can warn passers-by.
The supervisor had removed equipment from the SUV and was responding to the emergency when someone jumped into his vehicle and took off
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Another SUV setting up an innocent bystander to be blamed for its evil plans!
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