Looking Glass: It was a standard test drive, sir, no need to get so upset

After a mechanic replaced a sparkplug in a customer’s $60,000 2021 C8 Corvette Stingray at a dealership in Fremont, Calif., he took the high-performance vehicle out for a 148-mph street race against a Dodge Charger. The customer discovered this when he checked the Performance Data Recorder (PDR) valet mode. As a result, the dealership gave him a 2022 Corvette at no cost, after taking his 2021 model in trade.

DO YOU SMELL SOMETHING? … SLUMP! A couple tried to steal a furnace from a vacant house in Winnipeg, but the gas feed became dislodged and caused a leak. They passed out from the fumes and had to be rescued.

TERRIFIC EXPLANATION, SIR: A man was arrested for strapping a phone to his foot and filming video up a woman’s skirt at a coffee shop in Murrysville, Pa. He denied the charge, claiming that he had taped the phone to his shoe because there were big holes in his pockets and it would otherwise fall through.

SO, IT’S REALLY HER FAULT, BOSS: A man told his boss at a scaffolding company in Bristol, England, that he could not come to work because his girlfriend failed to wash his socks.

I JUST OBEY THE VOICES, OFFICER: A 23-year-old woman crashed her Pontiac Grand Prix into a guardrail in Knoxville, Tenn., causing her vehicle to catch fire, then stripped to her underwear and walked away. She told arresting officers that she was “called to abandon her car and go into the woods naked.”

DON’T WORRY, NO ONE CAN SEE US: Thinking that the window on their hotel room was tinted, a couple in Glasgow, Scotland, engaged in some vigorous lovemaking unaware that they could be seen by the guests in the hotel across the street. At least one of them called the mortified couple’s hotel to complain about their “lack of modesty.”

COBWEBS? BLOWTORCH? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? A man used a blowtorch to get rid of cobwebs in the crawlspace under a home in Boulder, Colo., setting the house on fire and causing $100,000 worth of damage. He tried to extinguish it by himself for an hour before he called the fire department.

OH, YOU THINK THAT’S A COOL OUTFIT?! … KA-BLAM! A man shot his friend several times at an apartment in College Station, Texas, because he was offended by what the victim was wearing to a wedding. The friend was hospitalized.

CHILD? WHAT CHILD? I JUST STEAL CARS, MAN: In an effort to get the police to respond more quickly, a man in New York City reported there was a 7-year-old boy with special needs inside his Mustang when it was stolen. The cops found the car about four hours later, and the 17-year-old thief said there never was a child in the vehicle.

PARDON ME, SIR, POLICE BUSINESS: A police constable spotted a wanted man in Birmingham, England, and chased him across a park before borrowing a mountain bike from a passing citizen to capture the suspect.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/3bTEacJ