You Just Can't Get Decent Staff Nowadays...
not even in the police force.
The woman, handcuffed and stowed into in the back of a police cruiser, was suspected of driving a stolen vehicle. Having apprehended her and secured her, the arresting police then started to run checks to see if the car the woman had been driving was, indeed, stolen. They left the engine running.
It was during these checks that the woman managed to slip her cuffs and wiggle into the front of the police car and drive off. Luckily for the police officers, she crashed just a short time later.
Two patrolling officers, seeing the crash, ran to help what they thought was a fellow officer in trouble and discovered the woman. They put two and two together, amazingly they didn't come up with five, and the game was up.
The woman faces charges of theft over $5,000 and impaired driving. Damage to the police cruiser was estimated at $3,500.