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SF Fire Dept. SUV taken for a joyride
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/15/5 | Suzanne Herel

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

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: playingfireman; whensuvsattack
I just hate it when that happens.
1 posted on 08/15/2005 12:29:29 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Another SUV setting up an innocent bystander to be blamed for its evil plans!


2 posted on 08/15/2005 12:32:02 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Free Michael Graham!)
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