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Woman takes Police car on 30 Minute Joy Ride!


What do you enjoy doing with your Saturday nights? Socialising with friends, going out, staying in? Spending time with loved ones? Going to the cinema? These are all the usual things that are expected of people in the real world. One 22 year old from St Petersburg had a completely different idea of how she wanted to spend her Saturday Night. Atleast there's a certainty that this is one she will never forget.

Vanessa Brooks, stole a police cruiser in St Petersburg this previous Saturday (12th) and took it on a half an hour joy ride to Tampa. When she arrived in Tampa as what can only be described as a bizarre incident, she made a run from the vehicle before she was arrested, Police explained to the Tampa Bay times.

Police explained that the extremely unusual incident begun at 9.30pm on Saturday evening, as two officers who were driving in Seperate cars arrived on the scene of a domestic dispute. Whilst the officers were inside an apartment sorting out the incident, Vanessa Brooks was outside flagging down a truck that was passing. When the truck driver pulled over, Brooks then reached inside the truck and took a cell phone, before running back into the apartment complex. Though when the driver preceded to chase her, Vanessa Brooks ran towards where the officers had left their police cars. She jumped inside one of the cars, picked up the keys, which was explained were not actually even in the ignition and started the car, before going on her journey, police clarified.

This appears to be an extremely strange incident completely, from flagging down a truck driver to steal a cell phone, whether she knew what she was going to try and steal after he pulled over is unknown, then to drive away in none other than a police car, is extremely unbelievable. Vanessa Brooks however, looking at her mugshot of her smiling bearing all of her teeth with her eyes closed, an unusual sight to be seen of someone who has been arrested, was obviously extremely happy with herself. How bizarre!