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Crappy Car, Crappy Criminal

Kay Lewis of Kansas City, Mo., says two strangers asked her for a ride. She decided to be safe and declined. After spending an evening at the movies with her boyfriend, Lewis left her car parked on the street. The next morning, she discovered the ignition switch on her steering column was broken off. The also discovered something else. “I looked down and I saw a wallet on the ground,” Lewis said. “It was an I.D. with a picture matching the guy that I saw the night before.” She believes the would-be thief followed her and her boyfriend after they denied the two men a ride, which seems like a lot of work given the state of Lewis’s 1985 Oldsmobile. “It’s a piece of crap,” she said. “I bought it for $300, and have put like a couple hundred worth of work into it.” She says police couldn’t help her since nothing was stolen, and she stopped short of calling the man, whose name is being withheld. “It’s such a hilarious classic stupid criminal story,” she said. “When I found the wallet, I was literally looking around like, ‘am I being punked?’” (MS/WDAF Kansas City) ...The story alone may double the value of her car.