California law loophole leads to car theft crisis that leaves tourists in the crosshairs
It pays to be a car thief in California. One law’s loophole is leaving tourists out of luck and robbers on the loose.
At least he got the breaking IN part right.
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(West Midlands Police)
Police in Newtown, U.K., had to rescue a car thief who’d gotten himself locked in a car he’d stolen on Sunday.
The cops tweeted that they’d received a report of a man acting strangely inside a parked car, and discovered him trapped inside the Ford Focus, which had been fitted with phony license plates, SWNS reported.
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(Ford)
They didn’t explain why he was having an issue, given that the popular car uses a conventional door lock switch, but they skipped the key and put a baton through the window to free him.
Unfortunately for the crook, he soon found himself locked inside a jail cell.