Will Steal for Tips

By Scoop Cooper
Crime Reporter
WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - The economy must be pretty bad when thieves start to steal jobs.
     On Friday night, a delivery driver left his car idling while he ran inside Bristow Middle School to deliver some Chinese food.  He emerged to find his car had been stolen.  He called the Chinese restaurant to tell his boss.  The restaurant called the three remaining customers to inform them that their orders had been stolen with the delivery vehicle.
     That's when the crime took a strange turn.
     One customer reported that their stolen food had just been delivered.  The restaurant gave police the addresses of the remaining two deliveries.  Sure enough, police arrested the suspect while making a second delivery of the stolen food with the stolen vehicle.  The car thief was pocketing payment for the deliveries, and, hopefully, the customers were counting their change.
     Police allege that the suspect was also arrested in possession of a crack pipe, a joint and a paper bag full of a prescription anti-psychotic drug.  So, let's see now ... altogether, the suspect is being charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of less than a half ounce of marijuana, failure to keep prescription drugs in their original container and, oh yeah, third degree larceny of the car.  The busy boy cannot be accused with a lack of ambition.
       Let this be a cautionary tale for anyone who doesn't feel like getting out of bed in the morning.  You'd better report for work every day, or you just might find someone has stolen your job.