Yesterday, I focused on a story of a woman in a motorized cart who tried to escape in that slow-moving vehicle from a store with $600 worth of electronics in it.
I thought that was something until I noticed thieves who actually stole a motorized cart from a Wal-Mart for nefarious reasons. Check out the story from wsfa.com below:
>>Couple steals motorized cart, making 2 mph getaway
HUNTINGTON, WV (NBC) November 17, 2010- A West Virginia couple is accused of stealing a motorized shopping cart from a Walmart store and taking it on a joy ride to a strip club.
Police have charged Billie Jo Stevenson, 36, and Jonathan Lee Misner, 34, with grand larceny and public intoxication.
According to the criminal complaint, a customer spotted a man driving the motorized shopping cart as a woman walked behind. A State Trooper found the cart abandoned near the strip club.
A short time later, deputies say they watched the pair leave the club and walk across the highway to the cart. Stevenson then got on the on the cart and started driving away.
Both are being held on $11,000 bond.<<
Only in West Virginia!
Well, here’s another robber who got more than he bargained for:
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