Posts Tagged ‘stolen car’
“Stolen car” parks itself in garage – found 17 days later!
Constable Kynan Lang inspects the garage which the ‘stolen’ car rolled into at Stirling
A car reported as stolen from an Australian car park has been reunited with its owner, after apparently parking itself in a closed garage.
Adelaide police say they think the car rolled down an incline in the car park, across a street and into a garage forcing itself under the roller doors. The door closed behind it and the car remained undetected for 17 days until the home-owners returned from holiday.
Fearing a burglary, they called police, who deduced the curious turn of events.
“Although the roller door was closed, it had been damaged slightly and pushed out of its tracks,” a police spokesman is quoted in Australian media as saying.
Police believe that the car had not been left in the parking gear and so rolled though the car park and eventually “forced itself under the roller door, parking perfectly inside the garage where it remained safely under cover for 17 days”.
Har!
Holiday couple spot their carjackers 1,200 miles from home
Some folks are prepared for carjackers
A Belgian couple on holiday in Spain spotted the armed criminals who had carjacked them at gunpoint a month previously in Liege, 1,200 miles away.
The unnamed pair saw Luc Jadoul, 47, and his girlfriend Gaëlle Deloge, 20, on a beach in Alicante.
Mr Jadoul and Miss Deloge had threatened the couple with a gun and hijacked their Nissan SUV while making a dramatic escape from a Belgian courthouse just four weeks before…
…The crime victims were amazed to see Jadoul and Deloge sunning themselves on the Torrevieja beach last weekend.
Incredibly, the stolen car was also parked nearby, just yards from where the carjackers were sunbathing.
Keeping their heads and showing a “sangfroid” praised by the police, the holidaymakers let down the tyres on the car and called the authorities, who made an “easy” arrest.
A firearm was recovered from the stolen vehicle…
Both are being held in Madrid before their extradition back to Belgium.
Jadoul was the subject of an international arrest warrant. Before becoming a fugitive, he was in prison and has multiple convictions for prostitution of a minor aged 13, violence and pimping…
“No one – certainly not the criminals – could have expected an ending like this,” said a police source. “There must be more chance of winning the lottery.”
If this occurred in the UK, the coppers probably would have arrested the Belgian couple along with the carjackers. They’d leave them in custody in the same jail while they spent a week sorting out legal opinions over them being mean to the crooks.
I certainly wouldn’t expect an ending like this in the United States. They would have been told to shove off until a copy of the original paperwork traversed the mail and arrived – proving that a crime like carjacking had actually been committed. If they were lucky, they wouldn’t be arrested for causing a disturbance and malicious mischief for letting the air out of the tyres. Either way, the crooks would have been allowed on their way.
Unless they were Black or Mexican, of course.
Fearless copper gets back up and does his job!
A policeman flung into the air by a criminal driving a stolen car incredibly gets up and chases the offender on foot.
Pc Dan Pascoe used his Taser stun gun to stop Lee Adamson escaping before collapsing from his injuries.
Dramatic video footage shows the officer being thrown violently to the ground after his police car was rammed by a blue BMW driven by Adamson on July 3.
Police set up a road block on a slip road of the M25 at junction 11, near Chertsey in Surrey, to stop the stolen vehicle. Pc Pascoe had just got out of the parked patrol car when the BMW ploughed into the back of it at speed, sending the officer flying.
Amazingly, the policeman rolled, got up and brushed himself off before running after Adamson, who had abandoned the stolen car.
His fellow officers arrested the criminal on suspicion of vehicle theft and other driving offences.
Throw away the fracking key on Adamson. And give PC Pascoe a vote of thanks and whatever perks he might wish for.
As much as we complain about incompetent cops and their bureaucratic bosses – the best of the breed are out there making our lives safer and better because of their bravery.
Dumb crooks of the month – so far!
Two Wilmington residents are in jail, accused of trying to extort $40 from a woman in exchange for her stolen car.
The owner of the car received a phone call from a man who told her he had her vehicle and if she paid him, he would return the car, according to a Wilmington Police Department release. The woman agreed to meet the man at Water and Dock streets so she could get her car back.
Anthony Antwan Mallette, 30, and Capria Kibibi Rouser, 28, both of Wilmington, were in the stolen car – with Mallette driving – when it arrived at Water and Dock streets at 7:34 p.m. Saturday.
As Mallette and Rouser attempted to exchange the car for cash, they were taken into custody by police.
The suspects obtained the victim’s phone number from paperwork in the vehicle, said police spokeswoman Lucy Crockett.
So, at least they can read numbers.
The article didn’t describe the car; but, I guess it wasn’t a Mercedes.
