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That’s GOT to be Embarrassing

Posted By Paul on March 3, 2005

Imagine you are a police officer in a small western PA town. You’re on the overnight shift and everything is pretty deserted because of the cold and the snow.

Nature calls.

You’re only a block or so away from the station, so you pull in and run inside quickly to take care of business, leaving the car running to stay warm - this is the police station lot, after all.

You hurry back out….and your car is gone.

That is exactly what happened to an officer in Carnegie (the town I lived in before moving to Mercer).

At around 2:30 a.m., Carnegie Police Chief Jeffrey Harbin said, Zygula left a bar on North Main Street, walked across the street to the police station and knocked on the door, evidently to ask if someone could give her a ride home.

Just before she arrived, Harbin said, an officer pulled up to the station to use the restroom, leaving his cruiser running.

After knocking on the door, and not bothering to use the telephone that connects to the desk, Zygula made off with the cruiser, Harbin said.

Post-Gazette

They did find the car, undamaged, a couple of towns over. The lady was kind enough to park in fresh snow, so all police had to do was follow the footprints to her house.

You suppose that the policy is about to be changed on leaving your car for a pee break?