Get Out of the Car!

This is a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping. When she returned to her car, she found four men trying to leave in her car. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, and started to scream at the top of her lungs, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!"

The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad.

The lady, somewhat shocked, then started to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shocked that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of soda in the front seat. It wasn’t her car!

A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. She told the story to a police officer who couldn't stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the desk, where four men were reporting a car-jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed.

The moral of the story? If you're going to have a crazy moment ... make it memorable.