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Chicago Man Steals Squad Car To Get To Work
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| Jul 17, 2005
Posted on 07/19/2005 4:03:42 AM PDT by Cowman
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 it and drove to work at the Whole Food Bakery House.
The suspect stopped to help someone who flagged him down Friday morning. That's when police nabbed him.
Espinosa is in jail on $350,000 bond.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: apolicecar; gettowork; joyride; stolen
It's their own fault. The car had a slogan on it that plainly indicated that it was to be used in the service of the public. This guy just thought the public was him.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:03:43 AM PDT
by
Cowman
To: Cowman
Stupid is as stupid does.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:05:16 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Cowman
Something tells me if he stole my car he wouldn't be held on a 350K bond.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:06:16 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
To: wideawake
Something tells me if he stole my car he wouldn't be held on a 350K bondsomething tells me that if he stole my car he wouldn't be held.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:08:08 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(Just when you hit the bottom of the stupid hole you notice the guy next to you is digging)
To: wideawake
Something tells me that if he attempted to steal my car, he'd no longer be breathing.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:12:20 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Cowman
The jury will declare him "too stupid to be guilty."
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:17:46 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: wideawake
Something tells me he wouldn't want to steal my car. :(
To: mhking
Seen this one yet? It has the whiff of JD material to it...
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:34:25 AM PDT
by
Felicity Fahrquar
(Life is short - quality matters.)
To: Cowman
Yeah, steal a cop car, lose your job. Catchy rhyme, that one.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:34:59 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: mhking
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:36:07 AM PDT
by
Shazbot29
(If you paid attention you'd be worried, too!)
To: Cowman
LOL!
Note the typical car thief bail. (/sarc)
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:38:28 AM PDT
by
iconoclast
(If you only read ONE book this year, make sure it's Colonel David Hunt's !!!)
To: Cowman
Something tells me if he stole my car he wouldn't be held on a 350K bond something tells me that if he stole my car he wouldn't be held.
Apparently the judge is just as smugly arrogant as the jerk cop that left his keys in the car.
There actually was a time when in our country that the cop would have been laughed out of the courtroom.
Such is the state of American justice.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:43:22 AM PDT
by
iconoclast
(If you only read ONE book this year, make sure it's Colonel David Hunt's !!!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The jury will declare him "too stupid to be guilty." His ass is grass.
He'll never see a jury unless a smart lawyer jumps on this for some publicity.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:45:20 AM PDT
by
iconoclast
(If you only read ONE book this year, make sure it's Colonel David Hunt's !!!)
To: Cowman
LOL! This is incredibly funny.
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posted on
07/19/2005 4:58:53 AM PDT
by
jocon307
(Can we close the border NOW?)
To: Cowman
This reminds me of a story I heard some time ago.
It seems that a guy was pulled over for suspicion of DUI and while he was performing the "line test" there was an accident on the other side of the highway. The cop ran to the accident to help and the guy that had been pulled over hightailed it for home.
the next morning there was a knock on this fellow's door. It was the officer that had pulled him over the previous night.
"OK, you got me, but how did you know where to find me?" he asked. The officer brought him to his garage where the cruiser was parked with the blue lights still going.
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