Posted on 05/05/2005 1:13:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gregory Alston called police Tuesday morning to say his white Nissan Maxima had been stolen from in front of his apartment building.
Trouble is, the car wasn't his. Police say he had stolen it at gunpoint two weeks earlier. The only reason he couldn't find it was because the victim had spotted it and called police, who towed it away.
Not only did Alston not get the car back, police arrested him and jailed him on charges of armed robbery, possession of a stolen car and a handgun violation.
Why did Alston call police?
He had left his wallet in the car and wanted it back.
Even hardened Baltimore police officers were astonished. Detective Gregory Jenkins signed off his report with, "Again, this really happened."
.......The report says that he told detectives he had let the car sit in a parking lot, "until he thought the dust settled, then began to drive the vehicle as if it were his own." Jenkins wrote that Alston reported the car stolen because he wanted his wallet back, "and was trying to retrieve it without drawing suspicion to himself."
Jenkins said: "Another detective told me, 'Greg, you had to make this up.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
LOL!! What a dummy LOL!!
Have to put that one away for reference....
If anyone makes a theft of a car, and later that car appears to have been also stolen from you, might be a dumb move to report the car as stolen to the authorities.
OK, got that down, thanks! ;-)
Almost Darwin award stuff if the thief could have just killed themselves in this process.
Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Why didn't the police look for prints or other evidence in the car to determine who stole it?
They would have found the wallet and could have arrested him before he had time to disappear.
Instead the stupid criminal had to come to them...
Another Democrat in the news.
Wouldn't that mean it has to have ... Oh yeah, ... the cops ... they're human.
nevermind.
Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.>>>>>
Pert near always! There is a reason why we have all heard that old cliche, it is true!
ONE OF THE MANY FRAMED QUOTES ON MY OFFICE WALL SAYS,
"STUPIDITY SHOULD BE PAINFULL"
GODSPEED!
Gotta love it when a plan comes together! LOL
Nothing irks a thief more than getting ripped off. One less vote for the democrats next election...
Note to self: Don't report property as stolen, if I've stolen it.
This is like that idiot Muslim terrorist/bomber in the first World Trade Center attack, who went back to the rental center for his deposit on the van he blew up.
This is right up there with the idiots that call the police to report someone had stolen their stash of drugs.
For years I've been telling people we were carjacked by the world's stupidist criminals. Now, I'm not so sure.
I may not be the only person ever carjacked for a Hyundai, but I'm sure I was the only one carjacked for one where the carjackers thought it was a BMW.
One of the two was in the Navy. He's spending 39 years in jail in Raleigh and then there will be two MP's standing there waiting to take him off for his trial on AWOL charges.
The other one got his lawyer (who has now been disbarred) to give him the address of my girlfriend (now wife) and he wrote her a letter, apologizing and claiming innocence. It was a 7 page rambling mess. He's also sitting there for 39 years.
The night before they carjacked us, they grabbed some other guy from in front of an adult book store off U.S. Highway 1 (the busiest road in Raleigh basically) and jumped in the guy's car. (An 85 Toyota Celica) The guy in the back started getting everything. Wallet, money and then he told the guy to strip. The guy in the back suddenly realized that they weren't moving. So, he yelled to the other guy "GO!!!" The other guy said "I can't. It's a stick." They did the Chinese fire drill and then took off. They stripped the guy down naked, showed him his driver's license and said "We know where you live. If you tell anyone this happened, we'll come to your house and kill you." Then proceeded to deposit him, butt-naked, in the middle of U.S. 1. As if a naked man in the middle of the busiest road in the earliest part of the evening, wouldn't get the attention of the authorities and he wouldn't tell them WHY he was standing there naked.
When they were arrested, they were pulled over in a little country town in Eastern NC (as they were driving back roads back to Norfolk so one of them could get his dishonorable discharge from the Navy) they pulled into a driveway. Two doors down from the cop. They were told to stay in the car. The cop waited for backup. After 15 minutes of planning their alibi, they had the cop approach and ask if they knew they were in a stolen car. The brain surgeons responded with the best they could come up with. "We didn't steal the car officer, we bought it for drugs."
This guy is threatening to displace them as world's dumbest criminals.
Paul
Criminal Genius alert.
You live in a fantacy world don't you. Cops don't dust for prints on a car theft or burglary, hell around here if you get broken into they don't even come out, they give you a case number over the phone so you can file insurance claims.Cops have more important things to do like write speeding tickets for revenue enhancement.
That's funny. LOL
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