We offer you three bizarre run-ins with the law. Two of the incidents are true, one is bogus. Can you spot the impostor?
Quiz #1
1. To get at the merchandise in a Chicago jewelry store, thief Gary Michaels used a manhole cover from the nearby street to smash the display window. Grabbing rings, watches, and diamonds, he fled the scene with his swag. Unfortunately, Michaels ran into a group of late-night shoppers which caused him to panic. He turned and bolted down the street in the opposite direction. Moments later he vanished from sight... falling right down the open manhole whose cover he'd just removed.
2. Slumped for a suspect in the burglary of a wealthy stockbroker's home, Denver police got an unexpected break when they arrested Louis Quinn for vandalism. Learning from a local news report that the loose change he'd stolen with the other loot was, in fact, a cache of rare coins, Quinn took a crowbar to a washing machine in a local laundromat when he realized the Liberty quarters he'd used to wash his underwear were worth $700 a piece.
3. Police in St. Peter, Minnesota, arrested Olga Ramirez, 32, after an automobile chase that started when an officer observed Ramirez's car veer across the center line. Despite sirens and emergency lights, the woman didn't stop until she was hemmed in by several cruisers. She wasn't trying to outrun the police, she explained. She thought that if they wanted her to stop they would have called her on her cell phone.
Quiz #2
1. When police in Lubbock, Texas responded to a 911 call from a local Sears store, they found 40-year-old Glenn Crockett on the floor, bleeding profusely from what he claimed was a bullet wound in his abdomen, although no one had reported hearing a gunshot. Upon further questioning, Crockett admitted he'd attempted to steal a power drill from a display without realizing the battery was fully charged. While slipping the tool under his coat, he'd accidentally drilled a hole in his stomach. Before Crockett was taken to the emergency room, he was arrested for shoplifting.
2. Reportedly inebriated and about to urinate in public, Carl Franklin was startled when Tallahassee police called out to him. Trying to flee, with cigarette in one hand and zipper in the other, Franklin stuffed his smoke into his pants pocket and took off running. Franklin was undeterred when his pants caught fire. He was finally brought down, however, when the waistband of his trousers burned completely through and his pants dropped to his ankles, tripping him up.
3. On trial for armed robbery of an Oklahoma City convenience store, 47-year-old Dennis Newton fired his lawyer, and chose to represent himself. According to assistant district attorney Larry Jones, Newton was doing a respectable job of defending himself -- until the store manager took the witness stand and identified him as the culprit. Newton jumped to his feet, accused the woman of lying, and said, "I should have blown your (expletive deleted) head off." The defendant paused, then quickly added, "If I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Newton.
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