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Flophouse

Ruben James Turner III, 30, was arrested for first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree trespassing, and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle after he allegedly climbed into the back of a marked police squad car in Portland, Ore., and fell asleep. When he awoke, he found he was locked in and, police say, tore out the seats trying to escape. Turner spent the night in the car, and was finally found by an officer who noticed something strange about the vehicle parked in a precinct lot — a word written in the fogged up back window of the car: “!pleH” (RC/KATU Portland) ...!toivilbO.
Original Publication Date: 02 March 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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