Burglar steals police car from station

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Wednesday February 8,


BERLIN (Reuters) - Detectives in Germany were dumbstruck after a man they had just booked for burglary walked out of the police station and drove off in one of their cars, authorities said on Wednesday.


"It's not just unusual, it's embarrassing," said a spokesman for police in the central town of Eschwege.


Police said the 27-year-old must have pocketed the key of the car during his interrogation. After he was charged and released, officers were stunned to see the man easing out of the station in the unmarked vehicle and immediately gave chase.


Three cars, including the stolen vehicle, were damaged in the ensuing pursuit. It ended with the man's re-arrest.


May Be he took it out for a test drive :-j

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That can't be good for a law enforcement career. :oops:

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Not surprising. The small town I was living in quite a few years back, had something similar but twice as bad. A police officer had arrested a suspect, hand cuffed him and put him in the front seat of his cruiser, instead of in the back. He stopped at the station to pickup something quickly, left the keys in the ignition and left it running, only to find it gone when he came out a minute or so later.

It didn't take long to catch the guy, but boy was that guy in nine kinds of hell. They didn't make a very big deal out of it, but then that's not suprising. The whole place was corrupt.

You know a police station is corrupt when: A police officer writes off his cruiser from running into a tree while under the influence of alcohol and gets a brand new one the next day and is back on the job. :shifty: