PSA: Stealing a car to get to your auto theft court date probably not the best plan
Thomas Minks is either hopelessly compulsive, or a candidate for a World's Stupidest Criminal Award. Last Thursday,
Mink was at a crack house when he remembered he needed to appear in court on theft and auto theft charges from stealing
a vehicle back in January.Apparently having no other forms of transportation, Minks elected to swipe a 2002 Mercedes-Benz S500 V owned by Lucas Evelio Hernandez. Police tracked the stolen vehicle via its GPS system. Minks tried to evade the officers, nearly running two of them down before being subdued with a stun gun.Needless to say, he faces a few more charges.
[Source: Miami Herald]
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John 1:17PM (4/01/2006)
Hahaha, this sounds like a mission in Grand Theft Auto 3 gone horribly wrong.
I just wonder why the guy didn't pull into a respray shop to get rid of his wanted-level...
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Stu 4:27PM (4/01/2006)
This headline sounded like something from www.fark.com
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Tim UF 9:18PM (4/01/2006)
only in florida...
gotta give the guy cred for getting the Benz moving though... though, he could have chosen a less conspicuous car (like one of the kajillion early 90's camries or accords or civics, etc that are around down there)
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TheMovieGoer.com 10:20PM (4/01/2006)
looks like Chris Cornell
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