Cops in Clayton, Missouri say 27-year-old Richard Blome (pic above; link below) was only in the freezer for a couple hours last week after being arrested on a property destruction charge. Upon his release, perhaps Blome was too embarrassed to call the old lady, and perhaps too cash-strapped to call a cab -- because cops say he immediately took to "wandering around" and looking for a ride. That's when he reportedly "stumbled" upon a golf cart down at the local parks & rec barn, jimmied the ignition, and hit the road!
And this braintrust Blome even apparently found time for a little "off-roading" adventure, since "mud covered much of the cart" when Blome was finally through with it. Speaking of which, while your average golf cart thief would typically think to stash that ride in a garage or some other place not likely to garner ready attention, cops say Blome ditched his cart right out in someone's front yard just down the block from his home!
Cops found the golf cart, and they're now calling this case a real "curiosity around the police department" -- whatever the hell that means. They've also slapped Blome with a felony motor vehicle theft charge. "Instead of just calling someone for a ride home, he ended up riding himself into a class C felony," quipped one of the local cops like something out of a bad "Dragnet" episode. In fact, I think this whole story was a bad Dragnet episode, circa 1968.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-drives-stolen-golf-cart-from-clayton-to-lemay/article_a700cb5c-e8a0-11e1-854f-001a4bcf6878.html
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