Looking Glass: We think we have a pretty good idea what the guy looks like

An armed man forced a woman out of her car in Indianapolis and drove off, but the lady left her cellphone in the vehicle. When she pinged it to ascertain his location, the noise startled him and he picked it up and inadvertently took a picture of himself before he threw the phone out the window. The cops located the phone, and are optimistic about finding the carjacker.

IS THERE A PROBLEM, OFFICER? A man who has never held a driver’s license was arrested on a sidewalk in Kerang, Australia, where he was driving a four-wheeled, gas-powered, motorized beer cooler while under the influence of alcohol.

YOU’LL NEED THE GREATEST ATTORNEY EVER, MA’AM: A woman arrested on a felony narcotics charge for selling fentanyl on a St. Petersburg, Fla., street, told officers that she was selling the drug to pay for an attorney to fight two other drug cases that were pending against her. She had previously been charged with selling methamphetamine to an undercover cop and for possessing fentanyl and meth in August.

NO, SIR, NOTHING TO DECLARE … WHY DO YOU ASK? A woman tried to drive across the border into Canada with 56 prohibited firearms, 13 over-capacity magazines, 43 10-round pistol magazines and 100 rounds of ammunition in the trunk of her car. Some of the guns had had their serial numbers altered or removed. She was stopped at the Blue Water Bridge which connects Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ontario.

I’M MUCH SMARTER THAN THE COPS … OOPS: A man, who stole a motorcycle in Pottsville, Ark., then abandoned it and ran from the police who were pursuing him decided to brag about evading custody by immortalizing the episode on a t-shirt. He had a police flyer printed on the shirt, which described him sarcastically as a “criminal mastermind.” Three weeks later, he was arrested. “Sometimes it may be best to keep your accomplishments to yourself,” an officer said.

YOU’RE REALLY MAKING THINGS WORSE, SIR: A man tried to skip out on a $4,000 restaurant bill he ran up in the Spago restaurant in at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, after dining on seafood and Dom Perignon and then buying champagne for a group of nearby women he was socializing with. He left the restaurant and went into the casino where the restaurant manager spotted him. Then, while waiting for the police to arrive, he made a bomb threat.

OH, EXCUSE ME, OFFICER: A Tesla, being driven on autopilot, crashed into a Snohomish County Sheriff’s vehicle that was parked by the side of the road in Arlington, Wash.

IT JUST SEEMED SO CONVENIENT: An acting head children’s librarian robbed a bank located one block from her workplace in New Rochelle, N.Y. She walked out with $7,000, but was arrested immediately “without further incident.”

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/32tKFBE