"Is that your squad? That's your squad!" another officer can be heard saying in the video as they both watch the now-stolen police cruiser drive away. The story said the officer left the squad unlocked and running with its emergency lights activated on the side of the road. This WISN-TV story has the police video that shows the surprised officer looking on as his squad car drives away, all while dealing with the driver of a car he'd pulled over during a traffic stop. Yet that's what just happened in Shorewood, Wisconsin, just north of Milwaukee, last week. Because you've either got to be pretty bold or pretty stupid to think you can just jump in a police squad car as it's sitting along the side of a road during a traffic stop and get away with it, even over in America's Dairyland. READ MORE: Even Holding This While Driving in Minnesota Is Now Illegal And it's not the first time the guy accused of stealing the squad has driven off in a police car, either!Įven though I've been a fully naturalized Minnesotan for over 11 years now, I'm a Wisconsin native, so I'll pause right here to you to make up your one 'Only in Wisconsin' joke about this story. It's not all that often that you hear about a police car being stolen, but that's what happened over in Wisconsin last week, and in broad daylight, no less.
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